Snake-handling Pentecostal pastor killed by rattlesnake.

[Hansc]

"Pastor Mack Wolford, the son of a snake-handling pastor who died from a rattler bite, lived by faith and died on Sunday, like his father before him, from a serpent bite.

Julia Duin has the riveting story of belief in miracles that defies mere rational understanding. Wolford, 44, "a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia," refused treatment for snake bites and, like his father before him, died within hours of a Sunday afternoon service in an isolated park.

Duin, who had profiled Woford for the Washington Post Magazine last year, writes:


Mack Wolford was known all over Appalachia as a daring . . ."

USA Today

[Unclaimed Treasure]

Presumption bites.

[RoyS]

LOL, UT! "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

[The Unaltered Gospel]

LOL, UT! "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

I find no amusement in this brothers death but God's people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).

[RoyS]

I find no amusement in this brothers death but God's people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).

Nor do I, UG. I found humor in UT's comment.