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?
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.”
THE RIVER WALK 