HEAVEN COME DOWN: Snake Handlers, Sinners, and the Electrifying Spirit BOOK/DVD Sample

http://www.heavencomedownbook.com

Heaven Come Down is a many-faceted document of ordinary people who go to work, raise families, and every week walk into a church with a box of poisonous snakes under one arm, a jar of strychnine on the altar, and an electric guitar on the dais. They testify and pray and sing and dance and speak in tongues. They light up a glass bottle filled with kerosene, stick their face in the fire, take the snakes out of the boxes, drink the strychnine, and dance and sing and pray some more. Filmmakers Gabriel Wrye and Michael Mees present portraits of four contemporary Appalachian worshipers who find nothing unusual in these practices, including a brother and sister whose father, a preacher, was fatally bitten during Sunday service. Another heart-rending series of events finds two best friends caught between the law and a breed of religion that is nothing if not uniquely American.

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Film & Animation

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• serpent handler
• snake handling
• heaven come down
• bazillion points
• michael mees
• gabriel wrye

[kkirk68]

Who is the man talking? He looks like a man my family use to go to church with. Clayton Hall????

[luvnjesus1]

MARK 16:18 WELL GLORY IT DOES SAY THEY SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS HOW ABOUT THAT !!!!!! THANK U JESUS FOR YOUR WORD JESUS YOU ARE ALMIGHTY GOD GIVE JESUS PRAISE GLORY GLORY

[Servantofchrist091]

7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

[anothercarter]

@penniesfromheavon “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover,” Mark 16:17-18

[penniesfromheavon]

@penniesfromheavon thanks for the info...but i was looking for specific scripture?



[spankeyssnakehut]

if you read the rest of your bible you would see a scripture saying "thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God". The bible doesn't consist of the one passage you base your entire religion on

[musicianforjesus]

@penniesfromheavon The bible talks in the latter part of the book of Mark Chapter 16 about this however people take it way way out of context. Thanks and God bless

[SlavicIn3D]

god is dead

[penniesfromheavon]

please email me with the scripture that says to drink poison and take up serpents. i was always told not to read it and i dont know where it is...i have a interest in studying this...

[thesecondadam]

WHERE DO YOU BUY THIS?