John Bunyan

Vilified, Slandered, Reproached, and Reviled

June 27, 2022 1 min read

Therefore I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified slandered reproached and reviled and since all this is nothing b

I am Magadalene

April 27, 2021 1 min read

I am Magdalene I am Zacchaeus I am the thief I am the harlot I am the publican I am the prodigal and one of Christ's murderers yea worse than any of these and yet God was so far off from rejecting of

I'm Going to Dwell in His Heaven

April 6, 2021 1 min read

I have loved to hear my Lord spoken of now I am going to see Him I have seen the print of His shoe on the earth now I am going to sit at His feet I have read His Word now I am going to hear His voice

While He Hath Not Faith About It

June 16, 2020 1 min read

A man may be justified before God even when himself knoweth nothing thereof Is 40 2 Mt 9 2 and so when and while he hath not Faith about it but is ungodly

The First Cause of Justification

June 16, 2020 1 min read

The first cause then of justification before God dependeth upon the will of God who will justify because he will therefore the meritorious cause must also be of his own providing else his will cannot

My Righteousness is Christ

February 14, 2020 1 min read

One day as I was passing into the field this sentence fell upon my soul 'Thy righteousness is in heaven ' And with the eyes of my soul I saw Jesus at the Father's right hand 'There ' I said 'is my rig

What Else Matters?

October 9, 2019 2 min read

What matters besides above or beyond the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ and of our acceptance with God through him What spirit or doctrine or wisdom soever it be that centers not in that cometh not f

I am Magdalene

July 11, 2019 1 min read

I am Magdalene I am Zacchaeus I am the thief I am the harlot I am the publican I am the prodigal and one of Christ's murderers yea worse than any of these and yet God was so far off from rejecting of

Altogether Vanity

July 11, 2019 1 min read

I find to this day seven abominations in my heart Inclining to unbelief Suddenly to forget the love and mercy that Christ manifesteth A leaning to the works of the law Wanderings and coldness in praye

We Live if He Lives

December 31, 2018 1 min read

If God hides our sin or lessens it He is faulty if He leaves it still upon us we die He must then take our iniquity to Himself make it His own and so deliver us for thus having taken the sin upon Hims

The Pilgrim's Progress

Christian Loses His Burden

July 13, 2004 2 min read

Now I saw in my dream that the highway up which Christian was to go was fenced on either side with a wall and that wall was called Salvation Isa 26 1 Up this way therefore did burdened Christian run b

John Bunyan on the Law

July 12, 2004 2 min read

Wherefore whenever thou who believest in Jesus dost hear the law in its thundering and lightning fits as if it would burn up heaven and earth then say thou I am freed from this law these thunderings h

Give Me Christ, Whatsoever He Cost

July 12, 2004 2 min read

When a man is soundly killed to all his sins to all his righteousness to all his comforts whatsoever and sees that there is no way but the devil must have him but he must be damned in hell if he be no

Seven Evils of the Heart

July 12, 2004 1 min read

I find to this day seven evils in my heart Inclining to unbelief Suddenly forgetting the love and mercy that Christ has shown to me A leaning toward the works of the law Wanderings and coldness in pra

Sin

July 12, 2004 2 min read

Sin is the great block and bar to our happiness the procurer of all miseries to man both here and hereafter take away sin and nothing can hurt us for death temporal spiritual and eternal is the wages

Do You Love Your Own Soul?

July 12, 2004 1 min read

Then pray to Jesus Christ for an awakened heart for a heart so awakened with all the things of another world that you may be allured to Jesus Christ When you come there beg again for more awakenings a

My Righteousness in Heaven

July 12, 2004 2 min read

One day as I was passing into the field suddenly this sentence fell upon my soul 'Thy righteousness is in heaven ' And I thought that I could see Jesus Christ at God's right hand Yes there indeed was

The Glorification of Christ

July 12, 2004 1 min read

For God to adorn His Son with all this glory in His ascension thus to make Him ride conqueror up into the clouds thus to go up with sound of trumpet with shout of angels and with songs of praises and

The Death of Christ

July 12, 2004 1 min read

We never read that Jesus Christ was more cheerful in all His life on earth than when He was going to lay down His life for His enemies now He thanked God now He sang Christ died and endured the wages

John Bunyan on Prayer

July 12, 2004 1 min read

When John Bunyan stepped into the pulpit to preach his last message on August 21 1688 he bowed his head to pray Prayer with Mr Bunyan was very real and when he would pray he always asked himself to wh