Pilgrim’s Progress: The Lions (3:9)
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
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.
These “shortcuts” are clearly marked for those with eyes to see it. The question is whether we are reading the signs.
As long as you are on the road, what does it matter how you got there? The destination is the same, isn’t it?
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.
Since the end of the May 9 ceasefire, Russia has launched 1560 drones, 80 guided missiles, and 56 ballistic missiles at Ukraine…
These three have made peace with their chains and are snoring through their own destruction.
He is clothed in something entirely new that does not belong to him by nature. It is the only kind of righteousness that can actually stand before a holy God.
The cross is the only place in all of Bunyan’s allegorical world, and in all of the real world too, where the burden can be removed.
The Interpreter does not pretend the road is easy. He simply confirms that it is worth it.
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Any vision that makes the path toward God feel more urgent is not cruelty. It is mercy in a particularly bracing form.
He is in a cage of his own making, forged from his own choices, and he cannot get out.
They will stand at that door forever, wanting without willing, hoping without committing. The palace will remain something they observed from a distance rather than something they ever actually entered.