| The night i got saved went something like this | p. 3 |
| Just before the weekly message in tongues is given in the old-fashioned-full-gospel pentecostal church and emotions are running high | p. 10 |
| Watching the lord god do his thing again | p. 17 |
| As pastor johnnie prepares to give my mother's cancer an holy boot in the ass | p. 19 |
| Why it's so important for both members of a marriage to be fully cleansed in the holy spirit | p. 22 |
| Training a child's mind in the way it ought to think | p. 27 |
| How the lord god moves through chuckie milbert's life week in and week out while billy ray nipot gets caught up in the ways of the world | p. 30 |
| Watching my grandmother being used as an holy instrument | p. 35 |
| The way god gets his message out to the prostitutes and all other unclean sinners | p. 38 |
| As a good god-fearing sister gets her groove on one spiritual sunday night | p. 42 |
| Standing at the altar out in the country | p. 44 |
| Learning how to give thanks at a very early age | p. 46 |
| The moment preceding tommy lee bateson's being washed in the blood of the lamb for the fourth consecutive week | p. 49 |
| Out spreading the good news one fine midwestern summer night | p. 53 |
| The way the lord god pays the bills without even having to use pastor johnnie at all | p. 56 |
| What happens when the lord god gets a whiff of sin up the nostrils that have never sinned | p. 59 |
| It was during that fine particular pentecostal summer | p. 63 |
| The way god pays for his word going out | p. 65 |
| While nelson harmicker prays during the weekly christian singles' sunday school class and everyone's mind is on a heavenly body | p. 68 |
| Receiving a gentle push toward the holy inevitable | p. 73 |
| The way you know you're saved | p. 75 |
| As evangelist jid swiggart accidentally gets high on a little more than heavenly wine | p. 78 |
| One summer the place | p. 81 |
| Evangelist marvin schmidt took our church hostage one fine pentecostal summer | p. 82 |
| The way god moves through evangelist melvin bufaw during the old-time-gospel-power-hour and people are healed | p. 85 |
| Watching my mother get a dose of the healing touch | p. 96 |
| The summer we were visited personally by the world famous teevee evangelist | p. 98 |
| How the lord god provideth...even when the chips are down | p. 100 |
| Just seconds before another true believer is about to go down | p. 105 |
| Right before having my unclean soul washed right out of me | p. 107 |
| The way jesus can use the devil's own vices against him to help further populate the mansions of glory | p. 110 |
| Trying to ditch our transgressions at the feet of the world famous visiting evangelist | p. 113 |
| The way that the world famous holy-ghost-filled pentecostal teevee evangelist explained the events that were to occur immediately following the second coming of christ if you're unfortunate enough to be left behind to witness them | p. 115 |
| Right before the good time christian author is introduced to all the visitors and regular members of the congregation during a prosperous morning service | p. 118 |
| As norman blortman prepares to feel the healing touch | p. 123 |
| As a faithful sister prepares to trust in god all by herself for once | p. 125 |
| The way the lord god relies on his people to come through for him when it's time to pay the church mortgage and other bills | p. 128 |
| How to assure yourself of blessings a plenty | p. 132 |
| The way good and evil can work simultaneously within the same family | p. 134 |
| As another faithful servant prepares to reap the rewards of heaven | p. 138 |
| Another close call the week before brother stephens finally gets caught counseling a little too intimately with certain members of the church youth group | p. 140 |
| First the ushers would pass out | p. 144 |
| How sister betty helps pastor johnnie facilitate the moving of the holy spirit when the interruptions are high and the offerings are low | p. 147 |
| How the lord god keeps the world famous traveling tent evangelists on the road | p. 151 |
| Right before sister milblatt is submerged in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost | p. 153 |
| It was during the sunday evening pentecostal revival service | p. 158 |
| How the official secretary of evangelist bob ministries keeps the spirit of almighty god flowing through the mail | p. 160 |
| Yet another good old-fashioned time | p. 165 |
| Epilogue--or--why it's worth your time to say the sinner's prayer and start livin' the good god-fearin' life | p. 167 |
| Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |