Hold Fast Apologetics

  • What is the Trinity?

    What is the Trinity?

    What is the Trinity?? Per Gotquestions.org, “The Trinity is one God existing in three Persons. Understand that this is not in any way suggesting three Gods. Keep in mind when studying this subject that the word ‘Trinity’ is not found in Scripture. This is a term that is used to…

  • Difficult Does Not Mean Wrong

    Difficult Does Not Mean Wrong

    “Father God, I just want this to be easy!” Have you ever uttered this honest prayer to God? I have. Today, as a matter of fact! It was immediately following that vulnerable plea that God’s Word came to remembrance and prodded my heart to trust… Trust in the Lord with…

  • Studying 1 Peter 1: “Our Living Hope”

    Studying 1 Peter 1: “Our Living Hope”

    Inspired by God, Peter wrote this letter sometime between A.D. 60 and 65. The “Purpose of Writing” per (GotQuestions): 1 Peter is a letter from Peter to the believers who had been dispersed throughout the ancient world and were under intense persecution. If anyone understood persecution, it was Peter. He…

  • “Cast Your Burden”

    “Morning and Evening Devotional” by Charles Spurgeon with Psalm 55 Morning – Day 147“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly…

  • Gospel-Driven Parenting

    Gospel-Driven Parenting

    You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 11:19 Our children are growing-up in the midst of a post-postmodern world… Where “Your truth…

  • Wishes or Prayers

    Wishes or Prayers

    Friends, isn’t it amazing how much God parents us as we attempt to parent our children?! The past several months, my heart has been “downloading” a great deal about how much God teaches me through the words of my children. Do you know what I’m saying, Gals? One recent example,…

  • Refuting Rohr’s Claims About Jesus (Updated)

    Refuting Rohr’s Claims About Jesus (Updated)

    “He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.” Titus 1:9 “The whole Enneagram diagram is called ‘the face of God.’ If you could look out at reality with…

  • The Lordship of Jesus

    The Lordship of Jesus

    I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘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…

  • The Problem of Pragmatism

    The Problem of Pragmatism

    “Pragmatism, a philosophy developed by Charles Sanders Pierce in 1870, champions the premise that truth is proved by whether or not the idea in question works. Basically, if something works and is found useful to you…then it’s true. It advocates a way to find meaning apart from God’s Word, and…

  • Studying the Book of Ruth

    Studying the Book of Ruth

    Inspired by God, scholars point to the Prophet Samuel as the possible writer. “Penned” between 1011 and 931 B.C., this historical account of Boaz’s and Ruth’s marriage points beautifully to the sovereignty of God and His Redemptive plan (the Gospel). The Old Testament is incredibly important! It’s in these historical…