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.
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.
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
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.
All that I had really lost was some time and a lot of anxiety.
These “shortcuts” are clearly marked for those with eyes to see it. The question is whether we are reading the signs.
He is in a cage of his own making, forged from his own choices, and he cannot get out.
They will stand at that door forever, wanting without willing, hoping without committing. The palace will remain something they observed from a distance rather than something they ever actually entered.
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.