Pastor Erik's Sometimes Dangerous Blog
Erik DiVietro
Teaching Pastor,
Bedford Road Baptist Church, 2004
Master of Divinity,
Liberty University, 2016
PhD in Bible Exposition,
Liberty University, 2022
Oddball Contrarian,
Since Birth (according to his parents)
We have had our cat Oreo for almost two years. He is a strange, strange cat. He and I have had some serious battles of the will, and I am not ashamed to admit that I have considered offering him “alternative accommodations” somewhere other than my home. After nearly two years, he has finally let
Rachel Held Evans writes a lot about her spiritual struggles with the evangelical churches of her youth. Recently, she posted her reasons why she is not a part of a mainstream church (the historical but theologically liberal denominations). I share a lot of her frustrations which much of evangelical Christianity (a very loose category for
Just how important are the Scriptures to most Christians? This is a question I have often considered, especially whenever I hear someone teaching something that sounds like it comes from the Scriptures but clearly got twisted around a bit during the time the teacher has had it rolling around in his (or her) head. I have
I keep track of the visitors who stop in and comment on the blog, and there have been a lot recently, so I decided to provide some links: Brian McCobb, a missionary to Paraguay (and a friend of many years) Dave Simpson, The Unexpected Pastor Trey Medley, Why Theology T.E. Hanna, Of Dust and Kings Rev
I will be frank with you, there are some activities that don’t weary me. They might make me sore physically or challenge me mentally, but I can walk away refreshed and invigorated. But there are also a lot of things that just wear me out. One of those things is relational ministry. Don’t get me
The other night, one of our guys asked me about the differences among the various translations of the Scriptures, so I figured it was worth mentioning what is going on with all that stuff. I am going to give some basic, basic thoughts. By its nature, this kind of an entry will leave out a
I learned something interesting yesterday and I thought I would share. In rabbinical Judaism, there are varying degrees of illegitimacy of a child. The lowest possible kind was a mamzer – the child of adultery, incest or other vile sexual sin. But there is another type called a shetuki. This word literally means “silent one”
Western cultures love a good epic that explains things. We really do. It all really starts with the Greeks and their fixation with Homer’s Illiad and Odyssey. Of course, the Greeks saw themselves as the descendants (spiritually if not physically) of Odysseus and Achilles. They were living out that heroic tradition. When the Romans needed to connect their own
Yesterday, the carpet installers came to the church facility to lay the carpet on the stage. There’s still one piece to be laid, covering our baptistry, but there is a remarkable difference between what it looked like before and what it looks like now. It is amazing how much a couple of steps and new
At Bedford Road, we finished up Luke 5 yesterday. To be honest, I am still a little surprised that it took me so long to work through the chapter but there is just so much depth to these first encounters with Jesus. The way Jesus turned these people’s lives around, and then he encounters a
