Pilgrim’s Progress: The Dusty Room (2:7)
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.
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…
There is no recovery without honesty, and Evangelist, who loves Christian enough to be hard on him, refuses to skip the honesty.
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…