Tag: Pilgrim’s Progress

  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Good Will

    Pilgrim’s Progress: Good Will

    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’.”…

  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Legality Hill

    Pilgrim’s Progress: Legality Hill

    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…

  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Mr. Worldly Wise Man

    Pilgrim’s Progress: Mr. Worldly Wise Man

    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…

  • Pilgrim’s Progress: Author’s Apology

    Pilgrim’s Progress: Author’s Apology

    Over the next few posts, I’ll be reading and reviewing Pilgrim’s Progress. At the beginning of the book, John Bunyan composes a poem that is essentially an apology to those who he might be offending by writing the Pilgrim’s Progress. There’s nine different sections, and took me about ten minutes to read. Let’s get into…