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?
Obstinate and Pliable are people who are in our churches, in our small groups, in our families… and in our own mirrors?
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.
You cannot see it from a distance and demand proof before you take a step. The gate only reveals itself to those already walking.
He simply says, “Go that way. The gate is there. Knock and it will be opened for you.”
Faith, when it’s real, tends to disturb the peace of the people around us before it transforms them.
I know that His grace is far more than sufficient for all of my failures. But sometimes in the moment, I don’t know know it. Do you know what I mean? Am I the only one?
The end of the story has already been written. It is now only a matter of how we will get from here to there.
Be careful what you pray for…
He went beyond the Jordan River near the place where John was first baptizing and stayed there awhile. And many followed him. “John didn’t perform miraculous signs,” they remarked to one another, “but everything he said about this man has come true.” And many who were there believed in Jesus. (John 10:40-42) Read: 2 Kings 22:3-20,…
William Carey once said, “Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” All too often, we are doing one or the other, but not both simultaneously. Why is this?