HOLD FAST
: Unrelenting Faith Through Rough Waters

Faith sounds simple until the storm hits. In Hold Fast: Unrelenting Faith Through Rough Waters, veteran pastor Bryan Clark—who has walked with believers through crisis for more than four decades—strips away the confusion around one of Christianity’s most misunderstood words. Faith, he argues, is neither a magic power that bends reality nor a Sunday-morning intellectual assent. It’s choosing to believe God tells the truth, then acting on that belief when the waters get rough.

Drawing on Scripture’s own storm imagery from the parting of the Red Sea to Jesus asleep in a sinking boat—and on his own devastating losses, including his father’s early death, his mother’s three battles with cancer, the stillbirth of his only grandchild, and the death of his son-in-law three years later, Clark shows what it looks like to hold fast when the answers never come.

Across fourteen chapters, Hold Fast confronts the real obstacles to a lived faith: unbelief, deception, temptation, worldliness, doubts about Scripture, and simple forgetfulness. Each chapter closes with an “I Have a Question” sidebar tackling the hard questions readers actually ask, from “Is there a conflict between faith and science?” to “Would my wife still be alive if I had more faith?”

Hold Fast doesn’t promise smooth sailing. It offers something better: a tested, biblical case for gripping the rigging when the storm hits—and coming through with your faith intact.