1 Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men. 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: With flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 [...]
Author Archive for Erik DiVietro
The Teaching Pastor of Bedford Road Baptist Church in Merrimack, New Hampshire. Erik spent seven years teaching history and other subjects in a private school and has been in pastoral ministry since 1998. He is the author of Unorthodox Faith. He holds a Graduate of Biblical Studies from Boston Baptist College and a Master of Arts in Christian Leadership from Master's Divinity School.
Manuel II Paleologus, Renaissance Europe and the Textus Receptus
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In 1399, the city of Constantinople was under siege. The Ottoman Turks under Bayezid I had conquered virtually all of the Byzantine territories outside of the city itself. The emperor, Manuel II, was convinced that the only way to break the siege was a personal appeal to the powers of western Europe. For the first [...]
What’s The Big Deal with Sam Gipp?
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We have no need of the originals, even if they were available. (“The Answer Book”) This is Sam Gipp’s statement about the non-necessity of the original texts of the Scriptures. He openly admits that the King James Version of the Bible has replaced the original texts (and does so with a very poor, allegorical exegesis [...]
A Hopeful Fundamentalism
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Over the past couple of months, our congregation has been exploring the apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi. The church began with a group of women, chief among them a textile merchant named Lydia who invited Paul and…
Lamp in the Dark
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I’m curious if anyone else has had the opportunity to watch “Lamp in the Dark” from Christian Pinto, distributed by Adullam Films. It can be found on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZ-sOzXWEk If you have seen the film, what did you think of it and its content? This is a question for people on both sides of [...]