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Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Get Derek Thomas’ teaching series The Pilgrim’s Progress: A Guided Tour on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3883/donate

Meet Today’s Teacher:

Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for the Ligonier teaching series The Life of Peter and author of many books, including Heaven on Earth, Strength for the Weary, and Let Us Worship God.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	In John Bunyan's day, people were afraid of sin and of falling away from the faith.
0:05.7	This is a very sobering truth.
0:08.1	And one, I think, that makes Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress,
0:12.3	perhaps shocking and somewhat alarming to modern readers,
0:18.4	particularly modern readers who have been influenced by an easy believism.
0:29.2	As we read the Pilgrim's Progress, we can't help but be reminded of our own fallenness
0:34.7	and the issues and struggles in our own lives. And important questions
0:39.2	are raised, like how can we overcome pitfalls and obstacles in our life? And what, if anything,
0:45.5	must we do in this life to make it to the next? This is the Wednesday edition of renewing
0:51.2	your mind. It's great to have you with us. Generations of Christians
0:55.6	have been helped by reading the Pilgrim's Progress, both by being provoked to think through
1:00.7	questions like that, but also by gaining biblical answers and comfort. So be sure to request
1:07.2	the entire 19-part study when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org,
1:13.6	before this offer ends tomorrow.
1:16.0	Well, here's Derek Thomas, as we continue his behind-the-scenes guided tour of the Pilgrim's Progress.
1:24.7	Well, welcome back to Lecture 3 in our study together of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. We're at a very, very
1:33.9	interesting stage in Pilgrim's Progress. Christian has just made it through the Wicket Gate. He's been
1:42.3	pulled through by a man by the name of goodwill. And you might,
1:48.5	had you not known the story, you might have expected at this point for the burden to roll away
1:53.8	and from this point onwards there would be little by way of difficulty. But actually,
1:59.7	that's not the case.
2:02.0	And what happens now is alarming.
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