A 76-year-old Tennessee man was charged with first-degree murder after fatally shooting his wife because he thought she had stolen and hidden money he planned to tithe to his church, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
Norman McKinney of Erwin, Tennessee, in the eastern part of the state, had been charged with attempted murder on Monday, the day after he was arrested by the sheriff's department after shooting his wife, Unicoi County Sheriff's chief investigator Ronnie Adkins said.
Deputies went to his house and found May McKinney still alive in the couple's bedroom, but suffering from a gunshot wound in the head, Adkins said. She died on Monday morning after being airlifted to Johnson City Medical Center, and the charge against her husband was upgraded.
"Mr. McKinney had the gun pointed to her head because he thought she had stolen his tithe money and hidden it," Adkins said. The officers who searched the house found no hidden collection of money.
Norman McKinney appeared in court on Monday and his bond was set at $300,000. He remains in the Unicoi County Jail.
"It's a sad situation for all concerned, especially the families," Adkins said. "He's incarcerated and she's lost her life and then the families are left with grief and pain to deal with." -
Did the woman steal her husbands tithe money because she wanted to give it as a freewill offering at her church?
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
on the subject of escatology... the 70s killed my desire to study this. Im serious about that. I just don't do it.
what I do know is we will go clicking along until God gets tired of hearing it.
then poof. the jig will be up....
love yall!
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
Some of you guys really attended Stalag 13 instead of an Apostolic church.
LOL!
"I... know nothink!"
My wife and I have NEVER - as far as I remember - given a check to a church or ministry (unless buying something). It was ALWAYS strictly cash in the plate. That way NOBODY but us and God knew how much we gave.
Getting a deduction off your taxes for an offering or tithe always made me think of when Jesus said "they have their reward."
Did you really give anything to God if you get it back from Uncle Sam?
When I was a church treasurer, it was the church policy for the offerings to be processed by the board and bookkeeper. The senior pastor did not know who gave what. This policy, by design, means that members are treated the same by the pastor without any financial influence.
My wife and I have NEVER - as far as I remember - given a check to a church or ministry (unless buying something). It was ALWAYS strictly cash in the plate. That way NOBODY but us and God knew how much we gave.
Getting a deduction off your taxes for an offering or tithe always made me think of when Jesus said "they have their reward."
Did you really give anything to God if you get it back from Uncle Sam?
(Ornan's threshing floor comes to mind...)
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
When I was a church treasurer, it was the church policy for the offerings to be processed by the board and bookkeeper. The senior pastor did not know who gave what. This policy, by design, means that members are treated the same by the pastor without any financial influence.
I have never treated any member any different because of their financial status in fact the poorest of them has always got more attention because they needed it.
I have never treated any member any different because of their financial status in fact the poorest of them has always got more attention because they needed it.
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
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