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    Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story
    Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story
    Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story
    Audiobook9 hours

    Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story

    Written by Bob DeMoss and Rebecca Nichols Alonzo

    Narrated by Pam Ward

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him-with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined. Refusing to be driven away by acts of intimidation, Rebecca's father stood his ground until one night when an armed man walked into the family's kitchen . . . and Rebecca's life was shattered. If anyone had a reason to harbor hatred and seek personal revenge, it would be Rebecca. Yet The Devil in Pew Number Seven tells a different story. It is the amazing true saga of relentless persecution, one family's faith and courage in the face of it, and a daughter whose parents taught her the power of forgiveness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9781610451000
    Devil in Pew Number Seven: A True Story
    Author

    Bob DeMoss

    Bob DeMoss served as a youth culture specialist for Focus on the Family for seven years and is one of America's leading authorities on pop culture. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker and has authored ten books, including four novels co-authored with New York Times best-selling author Tim LaHaye. Bob and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee.

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    • 4/5
      This book is a true story. I believe it shows it doesn't matter what walk of life you take you are not forever safe. About a family of a minister that is harrassed, beaten down, and they still believe. There are a lot of bible passages, I really enjoyed it.
    • 4/5
      Becky Alonzo is only a newborn baby when Mr. Watts begins terrorizing her family in hopes that the priest and his young family will leave town. He writes in his letters to the preacher that he will see the family leave, dead or alive. Meanwhile he claims to be a community leader with the best interests of the church and town at heart. Using her mother's journals, personal memories, newspaper articles, and interviews with family friends and parishioners, Alonzo narrates the seven years of Hell that Mr. Watts imposed on her family, including late-night bombings and shootings. I wish the author had given more background information of the town and its inhabitants. She tells us about the congregation's overwhelming support of her father, but does so quantitatively. It would have been nice to read about her some family's interactions and memories of the preacher and his wife, instead of just having to rely on the author's word for it. Bible verses are peppered heavily throughout the book, but it never feels "preachy". The author doesn't seem to have an agenda other than to tell the story of her mother and father, both of whom were bright lights in a dark world, whose legacy deserves to be a positive one, instead of emblazoned in the negativity that surrounded their deaths. As a Christian I appreciated the religious applications made to their daily struggles, but one does not necessarily need to be a Christian to understand the connections. This is a fabulous book that will make you smile through your tears, because even after all of the horrible things the family endured, the author lives a good, spiritual life. She, just as her father and mother, took the bad and turned it into good.
    • 5/5
      The Devil In Pew Number Seven by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo is a read that once one starts reading it’s almost impossible to put down, a story that is so amazing that one wonders how this could have happened and continued for five years, and how one family could forgive their tormentor. This is the inspirational true story written by the daughter of Robert Nichols and how he and his family for 10 years suffered undue terror from Mr. Watts their power hungry neighbor who went from making harassing phone calls in the middle of the night, to threatening letters, to eventual explosives set off around their home and shooting up their home and automobile. . The story covers the time from her parents marriage, to the birth of the children, to her father’s position as pastor of a church in Sellerstown NC., through the death of her mother, the trials and eventual death of her father. One thing their parents taught her and her brother was the act of forgiveness. One would wonder as they read this book how or why they stayed when family begged them to leave before anything happened to Robert and his family. How as a child Rebecca suffered through the assaults on their home and how as she grew older that through her parents teaching she could forgive the two men that tore her life apart. Vowing that they would leave the church and town either alive or dead, walking or crawling Mr. Watts who reigned terror on the family eventually seen it happened. If anyone would want to get revenge on Mr. Watts it would be Rebecca .The point throughout the book is how one remains obedient to Gods calling for their life and power of forgiveness. As Mr. Nichols lives out John 10:11-“The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep”. This is a excellent book and I recommend it for everyone ages 13 and upI would like to thank Tyndale Publishing for providing this book to read and receive an honest review.
    • 5/5
      A must read about forgiveness and love . The audio version is excellent!
    • 2/5
      The premise is interesting: a small-town pastor and his family are terrorized by a community member who wants to take control of the church, but the writing is unbelievably redundant, melodramatic and cliched.