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)
If you didn’t know, the Southern Baptists have decided to rename their Convention. Henceforth, they shall be known as “Great Commission Baptists.” One question. Was it their intention to make their name even more obscure and harder to say? Or was it that they wanted a four letter acronym (GCBC) rather than a three letter
I have been remiss in my task of reviewing Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage. I apologize for not getting the sections of the review out, but I have had a lot going on lately. Last night, I finished up reading the book and I think I am missing something. Everyone was talking about
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Something occurred to me last night as we were reading the Exodus story as a family. For some reason I never noticed this before, but it was tremendous. In Exodus 12, YHWH comes down into the midst of Egypt and he slays the firstborn of every household in the land, both Jew and Egyptian. In
Steps are pretty important when it comes to getting from one level of a building to another. Otherwise, we’d be jumping and climbing a lot. Our guys are installing new steps on our stage, and as they work on it, it reminds me that every journey takes steps. If the steps are planned out and
Jony Ive, the mastermind of design at Apple, had this to say about Apple’s competition and why they fail to make designs with the same kind of hook that Apple makes: Most of our competitors are interested in doing something different, or want to appear new — I think those are completely the wrong goals.
Yesterday, a group of guys from the church started work on the stage to update it. Basically, we’re just organizing wires and adding a couple of steps but it will make the stage more open and more “user-friendly” for the various people that are on it. Along the way, Bob (one of our elders) told
Last year, I blogged on the apostle Paul and the possibility that his father was a Gentile, which colored his approach the gospel in a positive (divinely appointed) kind of way. This helps inform us when studying the book of Luke, which we are doing at Bedford Road, so I think it is worth considering
Three? If there are three things, it isn’t simple anymore!
