Pilgrim’s Progress: The Stately Palace (2:10)
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.
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.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Picture (2:6)
This man is the kind of person God puts in the path of pilgrims to help them find their way.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Narrow Way (2:4)
The narrow way has a quality about it that the broader paths lack. It requires something of you
Pilgrim’s Progress: Arrival at the Gate (2:1)
The silence between the knock and the answer is real. What happens in that silence reveals something important about the nature of our seeking.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Repentance and Return (1:13)
“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…
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.
Pilgrem’s Progress: Help Helps (1:9)
Help is just someone who is there at the right moment. He does the necessary thing. And then he steps back out of the limelight.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Slough of Despond (1:7)
The Slough of Despond is not an obstacle placed there by an enemy. It is not a punishment. It is simply the natural consequence of a person who has just come alive to their own sinfulness.
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?
THE RIVER WALK 