Pilgrim’s Progress: Final Encouragement (2:13)
The Interpreter does not pretend the road is easy. He simply confirms that it is worth it.
The Interpreter does not pretend the road is easy. He simply confirms that it is worth it.
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.
April Mission’s Update from Kyiv
We need to remember that the One who started the fire is also the One keeping it burning
Treasures quickly gained are just as quickly lost.
We were created to do good works just as the sweeping servant is doing what he was hired to do. But without the good news of God’s grace, our works under the law alone do nothing but stir up trouble.
This man is the kind of person God puts in the path of pilgrims to help them find their way.
Here Christian will learn hidden meanings of what he has already seen and the essential truths of what lies ahead. You cannot make the journey well without this stop.
The narrow way has a quality about it that the broader paths lack. It requires something of you
Whether strong or gentle, whether gradual or sudden, there is always the pull.
The door swings wide, and the pilgrim who has no claim to anything but his own desperate need steps across the threshold.
The silence between the knock and the answer is real. What happens in that silence reveals something important about the nature of our seeking.
“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…