http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=02c-The-Ark-and-The-Atonement&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

We can gain some useful insights into a critical aspect of God's salvation, by looking at the construction of Noah's Ark.

Video -- 52 mins; plus Study - 2 pages; 2018

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=D2-The-Afterlife--Rich-Man-and-Lazarus&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

Jesus gives powerful reasons to avoid coveting a luxurious lifestyle. All true Christians' hope in this life extend to our darkest, deepest gloom, with divine insight into one of two clearly cut eternal states.

(Video -- 65 mins; plus Study - 2 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=D1-The-Afterlife--Wedding-Feast&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

An intense parable that so majestically illustrates over 4,000 years of history into the after-life, all in 11 sentences loaded with gospel connotations.

(Video -- 68 mins; plus Study - 3 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=Hodge-on-Eschatology&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

From A. A. Hodge, "Outlines Of Theology", chapter 39

(Commentary - 9 pgs; 1860)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=Chicago-Statement-Offers-No-Help&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

Though the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy has good content, it still fails at a critical point: verbal plenary preservation. Isolating inerrancy to manuscripts no longer in our possessions leaves a gaping hole in the defense. A brother offers a whimsical illustration of this problem.

Blog - 1 page; 2018

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=C2-Christian-Business--Talents&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

It's rare to have two parables so closely aligned. What is a talent (or, a pound / mina)? And why is this gift from the Lord removed from the slothful servant at the end?

(Video -- 62 mins; plus Study - 3 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=C1-Christian-Business--Stewardship&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

This unusual parable teaches a lesson about stewardship, but it's not obvious at first glance what Jesus is driving at. If we are to avoid the love of money as the root of all evil, how are we to emulate this unjust steward?

(Video -- 61 mins; plus Study - 2 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=B3-Workers-in-Grace--Wicked-Vinedressers&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

Getting into a rental is quick and easy - all the hard work has been done, and it's cheap. Sometimes the long-term renters can forget who actually owns the house. Israel did.

(Video -- 71 mins; plus Study - 3 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=B2-Workers-in-Grace--The-Vineyard&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

Salvation is God's free gift of grace; seems simple to understand. Yet when the reward of grace appears, there are shocking results, as some salaried farm-hands are about to learn.

(Video -- 69 mins; plus Study - 2 pages; 2018)

http://www.holdingfast.net/apps/articles/default.asp?blogid=0&view=post&articleid=B1-Workers-in-Grace--Good-Samaritan&link=1&fldKeywords=&fldAuthor=&fldTopic=0

Now that we're saved, how do we live? This study looks at this using a lawyer's question to answer who our neighbor is.

(Video -- 61 mins; plus Study - 2 pages; 2018)