Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 4: The Break of Dawn (4:9)

This dark time will also come to pass. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. And it is not a train.

Pilgrim’s Progress Stage 4: A Voice of Encouragement (4:8)

Christian was not alone. And though you may feel alone in your struggles, neither are you.

The ditch on the right represents the spiritual blindness that leads to doctrinal heresy.
The mire on the other side is sin that leads to despair.

Servants of God like this should not be rebuked or scorned. They should be honored for “going as far as they dared.”

How do we respond to the victories in our lives?

The accuser’s favorite tactic is a selective presentation of the evidence, stripped of the most important fact in the universe.

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

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

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.

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