Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 4: The Battle (4:3)
Each time he took another wound, he grew weaker. Every time we fall to sin, it becomes harder to resist the next temptation.
Each time he took another wound, he grew weaker. Every time we fall to sin, it becomes harder to resist the next temptation.
The accuser’s favorite tactic is a selective presentation of the evidence, stripped of the most important fact in the universe.
Whether or not Apollyon is Satan in this allegory, he still fights like Satan. And the way we defeat our adversary, whoever that may be, is still the same.
Just like Christian, we need mountaintop experiences to help us keep perspective in our spiritual walk.
A battle is coming, and Christian needs to be ready.
When Christian sat together with his spiritual family at the Table, Remove term: all eyes were on their Lord. all eyes were on their Lord.
Christian’s family has shown that they are opposed to the good.
Where have you come from, where are you heading, and how is the journey?
Church fellowship and the eucharist were a very serious thing, and this is reflected in the conversations with Discretion and Piety here.
It often seems that the bigger the celebrity, the more blindly many in the church welcomes them in with open arms and closed eyes and minds.
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
What lessons can the Duke of York teach us about marching up and down the hills and valleys of life?
When the Bible says “do not be afraid”, it is a warning against allowing our fear to rule us, not having a healthy natural reaction to our circumstances.
All that I had really lost was some time and a lot of anxiety.
This will actually be the first summer since ’18 that I have been in the US in the summer time and the first time since the peak of COVID craziness that I have been there for more than a week or two. Needless to say, this will be a much needed and long overdue holiday.