https://defenseofthefaith.com/Recent content on A Defense of the FaithHugoen-usMon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://defenseofthefaith.com/searching-the-scriptures/how-to-read-a-passage-in-context/Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://defenseofthefaith.com/searching-the-scriptures/how-to-read-a-passage-in-context/<blockquote> <p>This is a starter draft. Edit it into your own voice before launch, then delete this note.</p> </blockquote> <p>Most teaching that goes wrong does not deny the Bible. It quotes the Bible. The problem is rarely the verse; it is the verse pulled loose from everything around it. So the first skill of discernment is not suspicion. It is reading. Learn to read a passage the way its author meant it, and a surprising amount of bad teaching falls apart on its own.</p>https://defenseofthefaith.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://defenseofthefaith.com/about/<blockquote> <p>Replace this with your own introduction. For a discernment ministry, being a named, accountable writer matters more than usual: readers are far more willing to weigh a critique when they know who is making it, what church they are accountable to, and what they believe.</p> </blockquote> <p>This site is written by Blake Helms. It grew out of a longer project, a book on staying true in a world full of confident voices, and it carries the same aim: to put the tools of discernment into the hands of ordinary believers.</p>https://defenseofthefaith.com/start-here/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://defenseofthefaith.com/start-here/<p>If you are new, read this first.</p> <h2 id="the-promise">The promise</h2> <p>There is no shortage of people warning Christians about false teachers. There is a real shortage of people teaching Christians how to spot one without being told. The goal here is the second thing. By the time you have worked through the core articles, you should be able to take a sermon, a book, or a viral clip and test it against Scripture on your own.</p>https://defenseofthefaith.com/what-we-believe/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://defenseofthefaith.com/what-we-believe/<p>A site that tests other people&rsquo;s teaching owes you transparency about its own. Here is where this one stands. Nothing below is offered as a replacement for Scripture; it is a summary of what we understand Scripture to teach.</p> <h2 id="statement-of-faith">Statement of faith</h2> <blockquote> <p>Replace this section with your full confession. A common approach is to affirm an existing confession by reference and then note any points of emphasis. For a Reformed Baptist position, that is often the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession; for a broader Southern Baptist position, the Baptist Faith and Message.</p>