Hold Fast Apologetics
What Does Scripture Say?
Category: Apologetics
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To preface, friends, please always check what I say and write by Scripture…It’s so important that we test what is taught by anyone alongside the straightedge of God’s Word. Prior to “being made alive together with Christ” (Eph 2:5), we were spiritually dead (separated from God)…disobedient to God, carrying out the desires of our fallenness.…
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“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.” – Corrie Ten Boom While the world beckons us to look within, saying “You’ve got this!” Corrie knew that by looking within for strength and guidance was a bewildering journey.…
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Written by Women in Apologetics and can be found on Facebook and Instagram. Author: Meridith Black March 7, 2023 “The Christian worldview isn’t limited only to Sunday morning, but instead encompasses all of life. As Francis Schaeffer said, ‘Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital…
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“Jesus himself did not make a distinction between his authority and the authority of the written Scriptures. He acted upon the unity of his authority in the content of the Scriptures.” Francis Schaeffer’s Escape from Reason 📕 *Jesus quoted the Old Testament often, proclaiming it to be the Word of God. *Jesus both taught the…
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Friends, a great deal of what Paul had written to churches (New Testament letters) was pertaining to false teachers. He was alerting these believers because he loved God, and wanted these fledgling churches to know the truth. And while this topic is certainly not uplifting, it is both kind and necessary to discuss. 💡Hypothetical: If…
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I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life 14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[a] believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?[b] 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will…
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A quote which has impacted me immensely is this one by late preacher, Charles Spurgeon: “Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.” So very often we make the mistake of interpreting rightness and wrongness solely through the lens of emotion. If something…
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“Then Laban and Bethuel replied, ‘This is the Lord’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.’” Genesis 24:50 When Abraham was advanced in years, after Sarah had died and was buried in Hebron, he sent a trusted worker to Abraham’s homeland to find a wife for Isaac. Genesis 24 documents how the faithfulness of God…
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“Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.” James 1:17 Friend, there is so much God has given us. The air we breathe, the food we eat, the people we meet,…
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This article was written for Women in Apologetics in September of 2022 “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, how much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life” Romans 5:10 Intentional The plan to both reconcile and save humanity…
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Ephesians 2:2-10 “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh,…
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As you read the following two chapters, ask yourself the following question: “Am I challenging Jesus’s authority in my life, or am I resting in it?” When we acknowledge that only God is God, and that we are the sheep of His pasture, we sing a new song of praise! A praise that lifts His…