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.

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Pilgrem’s Progress: Pliable Leaves (1:8)

Do not be lazy. Be like those who have faith and have not given up. They will receive what God has promised them. Hebrews 6:12 Read: Luke 9:57-62, Hebrews 6:1-12 Relate: Pliable thrashes his way to the edge of the Slough nearest home, hauls himself out, and without so much as a backward glance at his…

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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.

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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?

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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…

He has brought me through.

This last month has been incredibly hard. But there is, without question, nowhere I would rather be.

In The Moment

I know that His grace is far more than sufficient for all of my failures. But sometimes in the moment, I don’t know know it. Do you know what I mean? Am I the only one?