Chryssie Q

  • Summer Time Book List

    It’s been awhile (two months, in fact!) since I updated this site so I’m just checking in. Summer 2025 has been going great so far and looking forward to the last month of it!! In the meantime…I’ve put together a short list of my favorite late-summer reads. Enjoy 馃檪 These are just a few of…

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  • How Does the BIBLE Explain Salvation?

    The topic of a Christian鈥檚 salvation can be confusing at times. Is there a certain prayer you need to pray? Where in the bible does it instruct you to be saved? How can I be sure I am saved? Many Christians would tell you that salvation is to pray and ask God for forgiveness for…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: A Review

    I said that the last post was the last of our Pilgrim’s Progress posts, but really, I have to write a quick overall review of it. So, let’s give one final look into Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. My Rating I’d give this book a 4/5 stars. It’s a really pure, interesting, heavy story of…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Celestial City

    THE LAST PILGRIM”S PROGRESS POST!! It’s been a wild journey with Christian. He’s almost died, had moments of great joy, and mundane times too. But he took it all in stride. So, without further ado, let’s conclude this epic tale. Arrival at Last! Christian had to plunge through a dark, churning river of death to…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Conversations of Fear

    As they continue on their journey, Christian and Hopeful discuss many things. One of those things is fear. “What is Right Fear?” “…fear tends much to men’s good, and to make them right, at their beginning to go on pilgrimage.” “without all doubt it doth…’Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” “How would you…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: The Flatterer’s Trap

    For the last posts about Pilgrim’s Progress, I’m going to focus less on the actual reading and more on the ideas behind it. So here’s a quick summary of The Flatterer’s Trap chapter of Pilgrim’s Progress. Summary So after the Delectable Mountains with the Shepherds and sheep, Hopeful and Christian start back out on the…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Delectable Mountains

    After escaping the Giant, Christian and Hopeful continue on their journey, coming to a restful spot, for once. Let’s see what happens up in those delightful, delectable mountains of the Lord:) Shepherds They make it to a beautiful mountainside, where several friendly Shepherds greet them. Sheep mill about peacefully. The Shepherds give them advice about…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Doubting Castle

    Christian is faced with more challenges as his journey continues, but he is not alone, because of his new friend Hopeful. Let’s follow the two pilgrims as they meet new foes and are captured by a giant of Doubting Castle… The first part of this chapter tells about Christian and Hopeful meeting By-Ends, an inconsistent…

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  • THE HOBBIT

    you’ve heard all about Lord of the Rings from me…but what about a time before Frodo and Aragorn, before all those wars? what about The Hobbit? the original book of the Hobbit is really long, so they film makers split it into three full-length movies, the first called ‘An Unexpected Journey’. Guests, if You Can…

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  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Vanity Fair

    Let’s get back into the Pilgrim’s Progress and see what happens next in Christian’s journey… Christian and his companion Faithful made it to a city called Vanity, where a never ending fair was being held. As soon as they’d walked into the fair they were bombarded with questions and taunts from the residents of Vanity…

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