Pilgrim’s Progress – Page 3 – Redeemer Baptist Church at Romeo

7. Attempt to Convince Obstinate

Christian said, "Be content, good neighbors, and go along with me." "What," said Obstinate, "and leave our friends and our comforts behind us!" "Yes," (Now claiming the pilgrim name of Christian) "because that all which you forsake is not worthy to be compared with a little of that I am…

November 20, 2022Devotional, The King's Highway

6. Christian is Pursued

CHRISTIAN IS PURSUED BY OBSTINATE AND PLIABLE The neighbors also came out to see him run; (1) and as he ran, some mocked, others threatened; and some cried for him to return. Now among those that did so, there were two that were determined to fetch him back by force.…

November 19, 2022Devotional, The King's Highway

5. Flee From Wrath

Then said Evangelist, "If this is your condition, then why are you standing still?" He answered, "Because I do not know which way to go." Then Evangelist gave him a parchment scroll (1) on which was written within, "Fly from the wrath to come." (2) Therefore, the man read the…

November 9, 2022The King's Highway

4. Meeting Evangelist

Now I noticed on a particular occasion, when he was walking in the fields, that he was (according to his habit) reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be…

November 9, 2022The King's Highway

3. Bearing Reproach

At this, these close relatives of his were greatly amazed. It was not that they believed to be true what he said to them, but rather because they thought that some frenzy distemper (disorientating disease) had got into his head. Consequently, with the night approaching, and with the hope that…

October 24, 2022Devotional, The King's Highway

2. Christian Addresses His Family

"Therefore, in this plight he went home, and restrained himself as long as he could, so that his wife and children would not notice his distress. But he could not be silent long for the reason that his trouble increased. Therefore, at length he broke his mind to his wife…

October 16, 2022Devotional, The King's Highway

1. Christian Flees the City of Destruction

The text is from John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. Numbers in parentheses are notes added to the text for clarification. "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I came upon a certain place where there was a den; (1) and I lay down in that place to sleep;…

October 9, 2022Devotional, The King's Highway

The King’s Highway

Since it was first published in 1678, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress has encouraged believers and pointed them to the Scriptures. C.H. Spurgeon said of this work: Next to the Bible, the book that I value most is John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I believe I have read it through at least a…

October 9, 2022Devotional