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.
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.
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?
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.
The Outcome Is Not In Doubt
The end of the story has already been written. It is now only a matter of how we will get from here to there.
One Voice
If the devil is the accuser of the brethren, how often are well meaning complainers little more than tools of the devil?
THE RIVER WALK 