Has anyone heard of Steven Timmons?
 

During the mid 80's he did a couple of "shows". One was called the Mark of the Beast, but he was most famous for his (anti)Rock&Roll show and coming into town and holding massive record burning events. He would always be on the front page of the paper the next day.

Both shows were a big slide show production (slides were sooooooo 70's and 80's!).

Yeah..I remember him all right.

I'm trying to forget. Trying real hard.

Ashes of the Red Heifer....LOL :noidea

steve was from beloit wisconsin, and yes he was infamous for the rock and roll show and the other beast thing, kind of went down to a whisper after that, havent heard of him in a long time, even in wisconsin, dt

I was wondering because he was up here several times, and then simply vanished. I remember going to his massive record burning services.

He also was BIG into the whole backward masking thing and spent a good amount of his rock seminar on it. I also remember him playing and repeating the lyrics of songs that I listen to NOW and think "huh?". Was it pure emotion that made people hear a nonsensical lyric and say "Ohhhhhhh Lord!"?

I was just wondering if he had died or was still out there somewhere....

You got that right!

I still have nightmares about his 'prophecies'!

I don't remember Richard Heard. Was he similar?

richard heard pastors in dallas now i believe, has for many years, timmons could not even hold a candle to heard as far as scaring the life out of people no joke, i sat thru several of his revivals as a teen and a college student, scary stuff, hundreds got the hg and then a few months later, they were all gone, no kidding, dt

I remember Steve but haven't heard of him in years. Lots of years.

As for the backward masking thing, I still have a tape of what was recorded backwards on a 70's song. Pretty creepy stuff. They don't do that backward masking thing anymore do they?

I received the Holy Ghost in 1978...Bro. Heard was preaching in Jackson, MS. I'm still here!!!! So they are not ALL gone! ;)

Richard Heard was a popular UPC "End Tme / Revelation / Prophecy preacher back in the mid to late 1970's and possible into the very early 1980's.

He was famous for scaring folks. Bus loads of folks would come in to be scared to Jesus. A lot of people would come to the Lord or reconsecrate out of abject fear of the future then of course were backslid or gone as soon as the fear left.

I personally know of a church where after six months of this most of the young people were so depressed many backslid and one pregnant young wife was literally in depression over bringing a child into the world.

Imagine my surprise when in the late 80's or early 90's I heard Richard Heard was going to be preaching at my church the next Sunday. I was in dread all week expecting the gloom and doom show. I was shocked when he preached a good sermon that had nothing to do at all with what he was famous for. It was very uplifting and positive.

I guess whoever sprinkled the charismatci dust on him did a good job! I have not heard him preach since so I don't know what he is like and of course can't judge by one sermon but I sure liked the new Richard Heard a lot better than the old one.

i sure am glad to hear that sis, god bless you, i was there at that revival and the one the year after, a student at jcm, i am glad to hear you are still in the way, dt

Thanks dt!
My mom came into the church that year...I think sometimes the Lord shields new converts from "stuff". So much was going on with JCM and other things...and we were just so excited to have the Holy Ghost...we didn't know what else was going on. God is so good.

But I do understand your points about the revivals back then...the place would be packed...and it was so scary at times. . I remember some movie they showed about the rapture...yikes! And the slide shows with the numbers 666 everywhere! I really didn't think we'd make it to the 80's!

CC1,
That's really sad so many were affected in that negative sort of way...balance...balance...we need balance....

so glad you made it becky, very happy you didnt pay attention to the junk, it didnt matter anyway, good for you, i graduated in 81 the year the world turned upside down, dt:noidea

He was still going strong in northern Illinois in 1983-84. He held several revivals that lasted for weeks at a time.

My mother was won to the Lord while serving on Jury Duty...with Donna Fisher! She really was a good friend to my mom...and her daughters would come and pick me up for all the youth activities. They were so precious to us...she never filled mom in about what was going on with the school...she's a classy, smart woman.

RH actually pastors in Houston...has changed a lot through the years...

It was at his church in Houston that the famous Tommy Tenney lightening bolt split the pulpit incedent happened that was reported in Charisma magazine about 10 years ago and Tommy wrote about in God Chasers...

Interesting to some...the church RH pastors is the same church that was started by Verbal Bean and his mother...mostly his mother if I remember correctly....

I have pictures of them during the beginning of that church....my mom played the piano for them in those early days...

I guess alot of that classical dispensationalism really made RH. a really scarey preacher.

Thats what I remember about the mid 80s the most. The sense that the Lords return for his church was so imminent that it could, and probably would, happen at any time. I remember being a freshmen in high school and thinking that odds of even seeing graduation were virtually nill. It was a time when if you were with parents or friends at a store and they left your sight for a second, you were filled with dread for having missed the rapture.

I remember Steve's Rock seminar and him playing the lines of certain songs, then immediately quoting them back in his booming voice, no matter how nonsensical they happened to be. I think he spent a good 15 minutes just on Hotel California.

Hmmmm...you graduated from JCM just one year after I did.

yes i did, i know you quite well, just not lately, when i get to tenn i will contact you and we will have some fun, dt:killinme

Re: Has anyone heard of Steven Timmons?
 

The Reverend Steven Timmons is alive and well. He lives in Beloit, Wisconsin. This guy is truly a slime. He was kicked off eBay for selling bootleg DVDs. Now he buys them from other sellers to add to his collection, and when he gets the package he threatens to report them unless they refund his money and allow him to keep the merchandise. If you look him up on Facebook he claims to be quite holy - what a pathetic human being.

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Wow, that's a name I haven't seen in a long time! Bro. Heard came to our Church and preached all kinds of crazy stuff. He believed, at that time, that children, including babies of unsaved people would burn in Hell for Eternity. Boy, did our pastor come unglued over that one!!

He used a big slide presentation to scare the living daylights out of everyone.

He also would say, "I can hear rocks in your head". This was because people weren't responding by shouting all over the place, they were just nodding their heads.

He also rolled into the parking lot of our Church in his big, fancy pick-up. This thing had so many lights on it, I thought it was a SEMI...:lol

Does anyone remember Bro Nazworth??

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Jesus of Nozworth?

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There are some things I am glad I missed.

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me too

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Very funny! :D

No, seriously, Bro Nazworth (I think that's how you spell it). I believe he was from Texas. He preached a 13 week Revival for us back in the early 80's. Very interesting things happened...

He used the word, "Honey" allot when he was preaching.

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I tried looking for his profile but there are quite a few of them on Facebook. I am guessing that he must have left the UPC quite a few years ago as soon as his anti-rock and Mark of the Beast shows stopped selling.

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Sounds rather Monty Pythonish.

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Here's the link to his Facebook profile:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001972968601

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Ya, that's him. I don't see anything too devious or slimy in his profile although it isn't quite what I expected considering how I remember him preaching from the 80's.

In fact, he seems almost normal especially when remembering all the record burnings that always brought a front page headline.

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The guy ripped me off so I've done some digging. What a crook! Looks like he's been ripping people off on the internet for years, yet according to his Facebook profile he quite "the man of God." Check out these links:
http://photo.net/neighbor/view-one?n...ghbor_id=82303
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/...p/60805/page/2
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001972968601

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..Lucky you,.. to have some pics of that time. ! A group of us young folks (from TBC bible college) "snuck" over to that church for a service or two. (Was some great services there.). But it's been a very long time now,...Ah, memories. :saycheese

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I remember "sneaking" over to a PAW church while attending ABI in 1956/1957.

Sad we couldn't fellowship outside the organization.