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.”
Pilgrim’s Progress: Family Rejection (1:2)
Faith, when it’s real, tends to disturb the peace of the people around us before it transforms them.
Pilgrim’s Progress: The Man in Rags (1:1)
Most of us spend enormous energy making sure our rags do not show.
Pilgrim’s Progress: Intro – The Book
The Historical Impact of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress There is a peculiar kind of grace that attaches itself to words written in chains. The Apostle Paul knew it. Jeremiah knew it. And a tinker’s son from Bedfordshire, England, a mender of pots and a preacher without a pulpit, came to know it too.…
Pilgrims Progress: Intro – The Author
John Bunyan: Tinker, Prisoner, Pilgrim There is a particular kind of pride that comes from having nothing, the kind that refuses to apologize for where it started. John Bunyan had that pride, and he wore it like a badge. He was born in 1628 in Elstow, a small village just south of Bedford, England, to…
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