From Grace to Glory: A Present Day Journey Through John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress'

From Grace to Glory: A Present Day Journey Through John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress'
Author: Carolyn Staley
Publisher: Solid Ground Christian Books
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781599253992

Carolyn Staley has been serving as a pastor's wife for over 45 years and she has been laboring over this exposition of PILGRIM'S PROGRESS for the last ten years. In her own words from her Preface we read: 'My journey to the Celestial City began at the age of nineteen when the Lord opened my heart, brought me to the Lord Jesus Christ, and saved me by his grace. In those early days as a young Christian, my tendency toward morbid introspection caused great mental anguish concerning the assurance of my salvation. During that dark period, I first became acquainted with John Bunyan when I was given two of his books, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim's Progress. At first I was actually afraid to read them, afraid that they would confirm my worst fears. However, as I began to read and ponder these works written so long ago, a glimmer of hope began to arise in my mind. I was not alone after all! John Bunyan suffered the very same things and wrote of them. At last I could give a name to the spiritual turmoil I had so often experienced. It was the murky Slough of Despond. The tormenting fear that so often held my heart and mind captive also had a name, Doubting Castle, baronial estate of Giant Despair. Thus I felt an immediate affinity with the humble tinker of Bedford that greatly encouraged me in those first days of my own pilgrimage. Many years later when I was asked to teach The Pilgrim's Progress to our teenagers in Sunday school, I gladly accepted the challenge and began an in-depth study of that great work. Using those early lessons as a foundation, I later expanded and revised them into a series of thirty meditational studies that were published in Adam's Rib, a monthly periodical especially designed for Christian women. These meditations provided the framework for an even more comprehensive study that resulted in the writing of this book."

Little Pilgrim's Progress

Little Pilgrim's Progress
Author: Helen L. Taylor
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0802484190

Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the vocabulary and concepts for young readers while keeping the storyline intact. The result was a classic in itself, which has now sold over 600,000 copies. It's both a simple adventure story and a profound allegory of the Christian journey through life, a delightful read with a message kids ages 6 to 12 can understand and remember. A new look and fresh illustrations for today's children enlivens the journey to the Celestial City.

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802449641

Feel like the only person with struggles? Millions of Christians have cherished John Bunyan's tale of the journey Christian and Christina made to the Celestial City. Written in the 1600s, this classic is now available in a modern-day, understandable text. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher: Our Daily Bread Publishing
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1627077693

Over three hundred years have passed since the original publication of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, but the story of Christian’s struggle to avoid temptation and remain hopeful continues to resonate today. This 2-in-1 edition features an updated-language version of John Bunyan’s classic allegory, as well as Harold Myra’s brand-new, 40-day devotional. You’ll see yourself in the title character and his journey, as Christian—the Pilgrim—learns to draw strength from the promises of God and discovers the depth of the love of Christ. The Pilgrim’s Progress will show you the immense delight that comes from living faithfully with the Lord.

Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English

Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher: Sovereign Grace Publishers,
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1589604873

The allegory of Christian on the road to eternal life. Revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original Scripture references.

Pilgrim's Progress 2

Pilgrim's Progress 2
Author: John Bunyan
Publisher: Christian Focus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Christian life
ISBN: 9781845502331

Original Classic Text Illustrated with Line Drawings

Hearing Things

Hearing Things
Author: Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2002-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674009983

ÒFaith cometh by hearingÓÑso said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening. In quiet retreats for prayer, in the noisy exercises of Protestant revivalism, in the mystical pursuit of the voices of angels, Christians have listened for a divine call. But what happened when the ear tuned to GodÕs voice found itself under the inspection of Enlightenment critics? This book takes us into the ensuing debate about Òhearing thingsÓÑan intense, entertaining, even spectacular exchange over the auditory immediacy of popular Christian piety. The struggle was one of encyclopedic range, and Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinthÑall the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern earÑto explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath. In SchmidtÕs analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mysticÕs ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion.