“Yet the man at the gate will receive you…”

Throughout our Christian life, there is no shortage of distractions. We are constantly being pulled this way and that by the counsel of others and the “wisdom” of the world. In The Pilgrim’s Progress,John Bunyan does a masterful job shining the light of the gospel upon the world’s wisdom and reminding us of the refuge we have in the gospel:

Mr. Worldly-Wiseman . . . is well named because he loves only the doctrine of this world (he always goes to the town of Morality to attend church). He love...