The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part 3: Dangerous Detours
Introduction Part One Part Two (The online text we’re using is located at Project Gutenberg, here.) Vanity Fair After leaving Talkative behind, Christian and Faithful notice Evangelist catching up to them. Even though he’s going in the same direction, he has probably lingered to encourage and instruct other pilgrims on the way. His speech is…
Read MoreDangerous Journey, Part 5
CHAPTER FIVE: The Valley of the Shadow Today’s Theme: God With Us Today, following on the heels of his fight with Apollyon and his healing through the leaves of a tree, Christian enters the Valley of the Shadow. In a reference to the 23rd Psalm, the chapter is aptly titled The Valley of the…
Read MoreDangerous Journey, Part 4
This post is part of our Pilgrim’s Progress read along during our Reformation Month celebration. You can find an introduction and sign up for an eguide in Pilgrim’s Progress: Mission Adventure. I thought I would begin today with this clip from a video version. You can purchase the video of Dangerous Journey on Amazon for about…
Read MoreThe Pilgrim’s Progress 2: Salvation Highway
Introduction Part One Slackers and Interlopers Right away, Christian learns that salvation is not for sissies! The sleeping men have for various reasons failed to take the faith seriously: can anyone relate? I must guard myself against presumption, or assuming that just because I’ve said or done certain things I don’t have to be on…
Read MoreRR Podcast 7: Douglas Bond on Reformation Tours
THE PODCAST Plenty of Americans dream of taking a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe…to see the Eiffle Tower, hear the chiming of Big Ben, and float along the romantic canals of Venice. But for many devoted Christians, the idea of a Reformation Tour never crosses their minds. Today, Douglas Bond tells us about the Reformation Tours…
Read MoreDangerous Journey, Part 3
Chapter 3: The Hill of Difficulty Today’s Theme: Lions on Chains Salvation is the beginning of the battle. In Chapter 3, Christian is now “free of his burden and light of foot,” yet suddenly two strangers appear to try him. And that’s only right, for Bunyan understood what C. H. Spurgeon so eloquently…
Read MoreDangerous Journey, Part 2
Chapter Two: The Interpreter’s House Today’s Theme: A Burden Lost, Heaven Gained In this section, Christian comes into the Wicket Gate, is taught by the Interpreter (or the Holy Spirit) spiritual lessons, and he loses his burden at the Cross. He also begins his journey anew, this time without the weight of his sin.…
Read MorePilgrim’s Progress: From the City of Destruction to the Cross
This is Part One of our read along of The Prilgrim’s Progress for high school age and up. Here’s the Introduction. The City of Destruction Something about Bunyan’s day that is very different from ours: everybody was a “Christian,” and almost everybody went to church. That’s why the Pilgrim’s dilemma is so hard for his…
Read MoreDangerous Journey, Part 1
Welcome to our Pilgrim’s Progress Read Along, part Redeemedreader.com’s Reformation Month celebration! We’ll be pursuing two tracks over the month of October, 2011–this one for younger kids and Janie’s read along for older kids and adults. See Pilgrim’s Progress: Introduction to read her commentary. (how to) READ HARD BOOKS If this book looks like something…
Read MoreThe Pilgrim’s Progress: Introduction
John Bunyan was a dissenting pastor of the mid-17th century: “dissenting” meaning that some of his biblical interpretations differed from those of the established (state-supported) Church of England. His views were not so different that they were something other than Christianity; he was most definitely a Christian. Where he differed from the established church was…
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