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    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 1 – From Deplorable Condition to Mr Worldly Wiseman
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 2 – The Wicket Gate and Interpreter’s House
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 4 – Into the Valley
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 5 – Christian Meets Faithful
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 6 – Vanity Fair
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 7 – Hopeful and Doubting Castle
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 8 – Dlectable Mountains
    • Pilgrim’s Progress: Stage 3 – The Cross, Hill Difficulty, and Palace Beautiful.

Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 4: Apollyon (4:1)

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.

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Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 3: The Delectible Mountains (3:16)

Just like Christian, we need mountaintop experiences to help us keep perspective in our spiritual walk.

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Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 3: The Study and the Armory (3:15)

A battle is coming, and Christian needs to be ready.

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Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 3: The Lord of the Hill (3:14)

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.

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June Update

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.

Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 3: Charity (3:13)

Christian’s family has shown that they are opposed to the good.

7 days ago June 18, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Prudence (3:12)

Where have you come from, where are you heading, and how is the journey? 

1 week ago June 17, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Piety (3:11)

Church fellowship and the eucharist were a very serious thing, and this is reflected in the conversations with Discretion and Piety here.

1 week ago June 16, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Four Ladies (3:10)

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.

1 week ago June 15, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Lions (3:9)

The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward. 

1 week ago June 14, 2026 in Daily Walk.

KCA 2026 Commencement Speech

What lessons can the Duke of York teach us about marching up and down the hills and valleys of life?

June 9, 2026 in Uncategorized.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Timorous and Mistrust (3:7)

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.

June 7, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Arbor (3:6) and The Lost Roll (3:8)

All that I had really lost was some time and a lot of anxiety.

June 6, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

Mid May Update

Since the end of the May 9 ceasefire, Russia has launched 1560 drones, 80 guided missiles, and 56 ballistic missiles at Ukraine…

May 17, 2026 in Uncategorized.

Pilgrim’s Progress: The Three Paths (3:5)

These “shortcuts” are clearly marked for those with eyes to see it. The question is whether we are reading the signs.

May 17, 2026 in Pilgrims Progress.

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