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Pilgrim’s Progress: The Sudden Pull (2:3)

Whether strong or gentle, whether gradual or sudden, there is always the pull.

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Pilgrim’s Progress: Goodwill At the Gate (2:2)

The door swings wide, and the pilgrim who has no claim to anything but his own desperate need steps across the threshold.

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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.

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Pilgrim’s Progress: Repentance and Return (1:13)

  “My wayward children,” says the Lord, “come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.” Jeremiah 3:22 Read: Isaiah 6:1-8, Luke 15:11-32 Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 1 Part 13 Relate: Christian weeps. Not the vague, atmospheric weeping of the opening pages, but the specific, targeted grief of a man who now understands exactly what he…

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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.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Village of Morality (1:11)

Read: Galatians 3 Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 1 Part 11 Relate: Christian follows the advice of Mr. Worldly Wiseman and turns toward the village of Morality. The path seems fine at first. It even seems like the right direction, the burden is the problem, and Legality has a reputation for solving that exact problem, so the logic…

5 days ago April 6, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Mr. Worldly Wiseman (1:10)

The life Worldly Wiseman describes, orderly, respectable, burden-free through the careful cultivation of moral living, sounds genuinely appealing.

6 days ago April 5, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.

1 week ago April 4, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

April Update

April Mission’s Update from Kyiv

1 week ago April 3, 2026 in Uncategorized.

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.

1 week ago April 3, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.

1 week ago April 2, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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?

1 week ago April 1, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.

2 weeks ago March 31, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.

2 weeks ago March 30, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.”

2 weeks ago March 29, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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