Greetings!  A big welcome to my humble abode on the World Wide Web.  The title of this blog is taken from the book The Pilgrim’s Progress: from this World to that Which is to Come, written by the Puritan preacher, John Bunyan, in a prison cell.  This work has never been out of print since its first publication in 1678.

The Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory of the beginning, progression, and conclusion of the true Christian life.  It tells us of the trials, temptations, and triumphs of a man named Christian as he journeys on a pilgrimage from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City and eternal life.  Many of the events described are universal tales about human struggles through hardship with which anyone can identify.  Among the places Christian traverses are the Slough of Despond, Doubting Castle, Delectable Mountains, Palace Beautiful, Hill of Difficulty, Valley of Humiliation, and Vanity Fair, among others.

This blog is named after the book because I, too, live a pilgrim’s life, traveling toward eternity while keeping one eye on the Celestial City and the other on the daily activities of this world.  The road to the Celestial City is often an ascent, and sin makes this world a dry and weary land.  However, the Lord Jesus Christ is as much with us in the valleys as on the mountaintops.  No matter the valley through which I pass, the slough into which I might have fallen, the river I must ford, or the Hill of Difficulty I must climb on my pilgrimage, my Guide is ever watchful, my Deliverer unfailing, and He is faithful in keeping His people until they arrive home in the Celestial City—that glorious, heavenly city not made with hands, but whose Builder and Maker is God (2 Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:9-10).

The purpose of this blog is to record what I am learning as I walk along the path to the Celestial City.  It is a way to remember the Lord’s faithfulness at different stations of my pilgrimage. I have nothing original to write that hasn’t already been written by others, especially those great “heroes of the faith” from the past who have trodden faithfully the path before me.  Hence, this blog serves as a personal collection of insights—a kind of commonplace book—to aid me in remembering helpful things.

I would be delighted to hear from you.  Feel free to reach out through the comments or the contact page.  I enjoy hearing from and learning alongside like-minded Christians whose paths intersect with mine as fellow pilgrims traveling “from this world to that which is to come.”

I hope that your time here leaves you with increased joy in our sovereign Lord.

“Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey.  So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them.  But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away.”
—George Downame

Sola Gratia.  Sola Fide.  Solus Christus.  Sola Scriptura.  Soli Deo Gloria.