Pilgrim’s Progress: Arrival at the Gate (2:1)
The silence between the knock and the answer is real. What happens in that silence reveals something important about the nature of our seeking.
Pilgrem’s Progress: Help Helps (1:9)
Help is just someone who is there at the right moment. He does the necessary thing. And then he steps back out of the limelight.
April Update
April Mission’s Update from Kyiv
Pilgrem’s Progress: Pliable Leaves (1:8)
Enthusiasm, however sincere in the moment, is not a substitute for the kind of faith that keeps going through thick and thin.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Slough of Despond (1:7)
The Slough of Despond is not an obstacle placed there by an enemy. It is not a punishment. It is simply the natural consequence of a person who has just come alive to their own sinfulness.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Obstinate and Pliable (1:6)
Obstinate and Pliable are people who are in our churches, in our small groups, in our families… and in our own mirrors?
Pilgrim’s Progress: Flight From Home (1:5)
He is running toward a gate he has never seen, because a man he barely knows pointed toward a light in the far off distance.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Wicket Gate (1:4)
You cannot see it from a distance and demand proof before you take a step. The gate only reveals itself to those already walking.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Evangelist (1:3)
He simply says, “Go that way. The gate is there. Knock and it will be opened for you.”
Pilgrim’s Progress: Family Rejection (1:2)
Faith, when it’s real, tends to disturb the peace of the people around us before it transforms them.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Man in Rags (1:1)
Most of us spend enormous energy making sure our rags do not show.
THE RIVER WALK 