Hold Fast Apologetics

What Does Scripture Say?

Category: Apologetics

  • Gentleness and Respect

    Philippians‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭11‬ ‭ “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you…

  • Science and Faith: YES!!

    And he (Jesus) said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” -Matthew 22:37 Friends, Science and Faith (placing one’s trust in God) are not mutually exclusive. Nor are they incompatible. Far from it, actually! 🧪🧬🔭 To quote respected historian,…

  • “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes…

  • The following shareable slides about Easter were shared on Facebook by The Wandering Pilgrims. The research below was provided by Nick Campbell from Christ Is the Cure. Nicholas’s book, Holidays and the Feasts, can be purchased on Amazon.

  • For or Against ?

    “As creations of the Creator, we don’t get to make the rules; we simply have to decide whether we are for Him or against Him.” GotQuestions “What did Jesus mean when He said, “He who is not with Me is against Me” (Matthew 12:30)?” By GotQuestions The following article was written entirely by GotQuestions.org and…

  • The following 3-minute video clip was produced by Summit Ministries, featuring former public school educator, now Christian apologist, author, and speaker, Mary Jo Sharp, gently proclaiming the reasons for the hope we have in the midst of so much heartbreak (1 Peter 3:15) in the world. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father…

  • Jesus: The Son of the Triune God

    ‘I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said…

  • This post is going to be a simplistic version of a much more larger post, but I genuinely hope what is shared here encourages you. After author Dan Brown wrote the Di Vinci Code, it was as if the air was filled with misinformation pertaining to the construction of the New Testament, planting seeds of…

  • Who was St Patrick?

    Were you aware that St. Patrick was kidnapped in his youth from England and taken as a slave to Ireland? Yes, indeed! The story of how God transformed Patrick’s life through the Gospel of Jesus is incredibly encouraging! Shared here are two video resources about the life of St. Patrick. I hope they are a…

  • Good Friday is Coming

    As Good Friday approaches, please consider examining the claims Jesus made about Himself. Friends, if His resurrection didn’t happen, Christianity isn’t a viable worldview…it would be futile and misleading. Christianity’s existence hinges entirely on Jesus’s resurrection (1 Corinthians 15). “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died…

  • Jesus and Luke 24

    Per the ESV Study Bible: Written by Luke around A.D. 62 (30 years after Jesus’s Resurrection), an Antiochian physician (Col 4:14) and traveling companion of Paul, the third Gospel was intended for both “Jews and Gentiles alike.” In the twenty-fourth chapter we are told that Jesus’s body was not found in the tomb. This is…

  • Philippians 2: What Does “Emptied Himself” Refer To?

    Per GotQuestions: “Christ’s ‘emptying’ of Himself was the laying aside of the privileges of divinity, not divinity itself. In heaven, the Son of God possessed infinite honor and glory and adoration. But He chose to leave that position of honor, and He ‘made himself nothing’ (Philippians 2:7). When He came to earth, He veiled His…