Pilgrim’s Progress: Return of the Evangelist (1:12)
There is no recovery without honesty, and Evangelist, who loves Christian enough to be hard on him, refuses to skip the honesty.
April Update
Happy Easter Normally, I begin my email updates with whatever new song has been bouncing around in my head and how that song is fits into what has been going on in my life. But as I sit down to type, the song that comes to mind is one that is older than I…
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.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Intro – The Book
The Historical Impact of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress There is a peculiar kind of grace that attaches itself to words written in chains. The Apostle Paul knew it. Jeremiah knew it. And a tinker’s son from Bedfordshire, England, a mender of pots and a preacher without a pulpit, came to know it too.…
Pilgrims Progress: Intro – The Author
John Bunyan: Tinker, Prisoner, Pilgrim There is a particular kind of pride that comes from having nothing, the kind that refuses to apologize for where it started. John Bunyan had that pride, and he wore it like a badge. He was born in 1628 in Elstow, a small village just south of Bedford, England, to…
THE RIVER WALK 