The Wicket Gate

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 21 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

Register today with the discounted rate for Ligonier’s 2025 National Conference, I Will Build My Church: https://www.ligonier.org/2025

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	Before we get to today's episode, I wanted to remind you about this year's national conference in Orlando, Florida.
0:06.9	It's April 10 through 12, and I will build my church as the theme.
0:11.9	Though we live in a hostile world, God's people can have confidence, knowing that all the powers of hell cannot withstand the triumph of his church.
0:22.7	Join thousands of like-minded Christians for three days of warm fellowship and rich teaching as we explore the promise of Jesus Christ
0:29.3	to build his church and consider how Christians are called to evangelism, missions, discipleship,
0:35.7	and worship all to the glory of God.
0:39.0	Learn more, explore this year's speakers, and register by visiting
0:42.9	Ligonier.org slash 2025.
0:46.3	That's Ligeneer.org slash 2025.
0:50.2	Now on to today's episode.
0:52.9	Before he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan was embarking on his own journey.
0:58.9	He had pulled himself up by his bootstraps.
1:01.1	He had tried to live an obedient life.
1:03.3	And to the outward world, to the outward observance, he looked as if he was a new man.
1:10.4	And indeed so I was.
1:12.1	Though yet I knew not Christ, nor grace, nor faith, nor hope.
1:22.5	The Pilgrim's Progress is a classic.
1:25.4	Even if you haven't read it, you're probably somewhat
1:28.0	familiar with the story of Christian and his journey to the celestial city. But what you may
1:33.7	not know is that many of the challenges Christian faces parallel Bunyan's journey through life
1:39.5	and perhaps your own. You're listening to Renewing Your Mind, and I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.
1:46.9	Today on Renewing Your Mind, Derek Thomas takes us behind the scenes of this literary masterpiece.
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