Asking for Help

Welcome to another Thursday UNFILTERED blog post, the only blog that doesn’t like the slogan, “Don’t use liquor as a crutch!” No one can use liquor as a crutch because a crutch helps you walk.

The subject of this article is “Asking for Help.” The subtitle is “If You Feel So Inclined.”

Thanks to all of you who have been praying for me to complete my titanic project – the complete rewrite, revision, and expansion of my very old book The Untold Story of the New Testament Church.

(If you have the old version from almost 20 years ago, throw it out. It’s flawed and incomplete. The new version – which I’ll explain in a minute – will be FAR superior in every way and much more extensive.)

I’ve been working on the new edition daily since October 22, 2021.

Currently, it’s more than double the size of the old version and up to over 2,000 footnotes. (I want to document every conclusion. The footnotes also shed further light on the story.)

To date, I’ve written over 20 books, and this volume is BY FAR the most difficult and tedious I’ve ever put my hand to.

By the way, this is the only published book for which I was NOT given an advance. I regard the project as a labor of love to advance the kingdom and equip God’s people to understand their New Testament in an innovative, fresh, and compelling way.

When it comes out and you read it, I hope you’ll agree.

UPDATE: Because of your generous donations, we raised over 15k for scholars and editors. So we hired an additional scholar and editor to review the book, the cost of which came to a little over 20k.

Additional donations are still coming in, and we will use that money to send the book to Bible colleges and seminaries gratis, along with sending bulk copies to those who donated any of the amounts listed above.

We expect the book to release in 2025.

A donation of any amount is appreciated. As a “thank you,” we are sending copies to those who send in a generous donation.

Here’s the breakdown (and this may look like an infomercial to the untrained eye, but it’s not):

For those of you who can and desire to give a donation of $500 to $999, you will receive 3 signed copies mailed to you when the publisher sends me the printed copies.
For a gift of $1,000 to $4,999, you will receive 7 signed copies.
For a gift of $5,000 or more, you will receive 11 signed copies.

If you make a donation on one of the amounts listed above, be sure to send us an email (Frank@FrankViola.com) with the amount. Don’t include your address because it might change by the time the book comes out.

We will keep your email in our records so when the book releases, you will receive your signed copies. Just don’t change your email address, and of course, stay on the Thursday UNFILTERED email list so you know when the book releases.