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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

April Update

April Mission’s Update from Kyiv

4 days 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.

5 days 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.

6 days 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.

1 week 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.

1 week 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.”

1 week ago March 29, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.

2 weeks ago March 28, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Man in Rags (1:1)

Most of us spend enormous energy making sure our rags do not show.

2 weeks ago March 27, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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.…

2 weeks ago March 27, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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