Underground Exiles

Bishop Thomas W. Weeks

Bishop Weeks recasts his ‘Holy Hook Up’ | ajc.com.

Yeah…you can’t make this crap up.  Pentecostal “Bishop” Thomas W. Weeks is looking for a “God-fearing wife” on his new up coming reality show, “Holy Hook-up”.

This is the same Bishop Thomas W. Weeks who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on his now ex-wife, nationally known Pentecostal evangelist Juanita Bynum, and who has been sued by an ex-employee.

How this guy is still in any sort of position of spiritual authority is beyond me; I’ve found nothing on the web about him humbling himself in repentance, but instead he’s now looking for a “holy hook-up”.

I’d like to pray that God would strike him with his righteous wrath, but I’ll settle for praying that God won’t send him another wife to abuse.  That’s good enough for me.

Here’s God’s providential timing for you:

Last night I posted about really needing an empowering work of grace in my life. I feel like my struggle with anger and arrogance is sin; there’s no other way to put it.

This evening when I got home from the job, I had a delivery waiting for me. Unbeknown to me, a buddy had ordered a copy of The Mortification of Sin by John Owen for me. At the moment I’m struggling, a friend that has no clue what I’m dealing with sends me a book about murdering my sin.

Then I’m trying to stay up to date on the other blogs I like by way of my feedreader, and I found this post, by Dr. John Piper.

I’m beginning to suspect that God is trying to get my attention.

I really would appreciate ya’ll praying about this, because I think it’s important.

It’s come to my attention, again, that my passion comes across as anger. I freely admit that for the majority of my life I’ve been a pretty angry guy. I’ve been described more than once as being emotionally closed off; personally, I’d disagree, not because it isn’t accurate, but because it doesn’t even scratch the surface.

There is one emotion, and just one, that I can tap at will. It’s anger. I freely confess that I’ve been an angry, angry guy for the majority of my life. It’s extraordinarily hard for me to contact any emotion other than pure, unadulterated rage. Because of this, I bleed anger, even when I’m not angry.

Five years in the US Army didn’t make any of it better, it just makes it worse. It added an arrogance to my personality that isn’t winsome or appealing at all. Now, what you get when you talk to me, despite a lot of work on my part, is angry arrogance.

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