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It’s time for the ultimate book-turned-movie post: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R. R. Tolkien!! These exciting, enchanting stories are some of the most well-known in the literature world. We’re going to be looking at them through the movie, because the movie follows the story line closely and gives a really good picture…
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The next part of Christian’s journey brings him to the house of the Interpreter. He comes to the Interpreter’s house and is welcomed in. The Interpreter, a wise man who looks kindly upon Christian, shows him many things. Every time, after watching a scene unfold, Christian asks what the meaning is. The Interpreter explains the…
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Welcome back to our weekly reading of Pilgrim’s Progress!! Today we’re going to take a look to see what happens after Christian’s encounter with Legality Hill. “Continue on the way,” Evangelist had told Christian. “Keep going until you reach the gate, where there are words written on it: ‘Knock, and the door will be opened’.”…
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As we know from the previous post, Christian has been led astray by a certain Mr. Worldly Wise Man, who sent him to Legality Hill. Let’s get into what happened and how it represents our own lives as believers. The Hill Christian goes to Legality Hill hoping that whoever is there can remove the burden…
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The next chapter of Pilgrim’s Progress brings us to when Christian meets Mr. Worldly Wise Man, who seems to represent the world and how it wants to trip us up. Mr. Worldly As soon as Christian runs into Mr. Worldly, the story takes on a sense of trouble. Mr. Worldly gives a pretense of being…
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Though unrelated to my book reviews and all that, I wanted to share about this past Thursday, October 31, was the day that, thousands of years ago, Martin Luther began the Protestant Church and the Reformation. You might be surprised, but history is one of my least favorite subjects. However, I think this is an…
