Pilgrim’s Progress: The Three Paths (3:5)
These “shortcuts” are clearly marked for those with eyes to see it. The question is whether we are reading the signs.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Formalist & Hypocrisy (3:4)
As long as you are on the road, what does it matter how you got there? The destination is the same, isn’t it?
Pilgrim’s Progress: Simple, Sloth, and Presumption (3:3)
These three have made peace with their chains and are snoring through their own destruction.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Cross & The Sepulcher (3:1)
The cross is the only place in all of Bunyan’s allegorical world, and in all of the real world too, where the burden can be removed.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Final Encouragement (2:13)
The Interpreter does not pretend the road is easy. He simply confirms that it is worth it.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Dreamer’s Vision (2:12)
Any vision that makes the path toward God feel more urgent is not cruelty. It is mercy in a particularly bracing form.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Iron Cage (2:11)
He is in a cage of his own making, forged from his own choices, and he cannot get out.
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 Fire (2:9)
We need to remember that the One who started the fire is also the One keeping it burning
Pilgrim’s Progress: Passion and Patience (2:8)
Treasures quickly gained are just as quickly lost.
THE RIVER WALK 