To This I Hold is a music devotional project created and recorded solely by musicians at Grace Polaris Church.
Each video and devotional invites listeners into the journey of what it means to suffer well as a Christian.
The songs and the devotionals don’t seek to provide easy solutions or quick fixes, but to turn our eyes onto Jesus, our suffering Savior who promises to walk with us until we arrive home.
To This I Hold
I’ve always had a very sensitive saccharine meter. What I mean is I have no patience for sugar coating, empty promises, or an imaginary view of what the world is actually like. I’m insufferable to watch TV with because at every commercial break I annoyingly comment on the ways the advertiser is lying to us. Unfortunately, fuzzy-feeling commercialism can bleed into Christian art and media too, which then spills over into some bad theology. Sometimes mainstream Christian art sells a feel-good brand that seemingly prioritizes profit over faithfulness, and record sales over reality. An unfortunate chunk of the artistic content that has come out of the current evangelical mainstream reeks of an overoptimistic triumphalism that finds little basis in the average Christian’s Tuesday morning.