Schedule

At Vanity Fair, Pilgrim encountered a market of all kinds of goods: houses, lands, titles, lusts, pleasures, and every other carnal delight one can imagine. All of them promised happiness apart from God. Yet Pilgrim and his companion, upon being asked what they wanted to buy, said, “We buy the truth.” In this session, Dr. Steven J. Lawson will describe how Christians, in a world of vanity, are called to seek and proclaim the truth.

Pilgrim left the City of Destruction crying, "Life, life, eternal life!" He had a sure guide—his Bible—and he had a burden that needed to be lifted. Pilgrim knew that he needed a Savior in a dark world doomed for destruction. In this session, Dr. Derek W.H. Thomas will describe the importance of the Bible in the life of the Christian while considering what it means to be a pilgrim in this world.

As Augustine lay dying, the Vandals were at the gates of his city, Hippo. Several years earlier, another barbarian tribe had sacked Rome. It seemed that the whole world was coming apart. Augustine, however, trusted God. In this session, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey will describe how Christians can live faithfully even in overwhelming, discouraging, and seemingly hopeless circumstances. Dr. Godfrey will point out what God’s faithfulness means for us, and how we can have hope even when we find ourselves in the direst straits.

Giant Despair captured Pilgrim and locked him in Doubting Castle after he left the true Way. There, Pilgrim suffered terribly, but he remembered the promises of God and thereby escaped. In this session, Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr. will describe how doubts afflict us as Christians, but he will also describe how to contend with those doubts. Although in this life we often feel trapped by doubts and despair, we have the key to freedom—the promises in God’s Word.

Augustine saw the world as a struggle between two ultimate cities—the city of God and the city of man. Augustine knew that he and his brothers and sisters in Christ were citizens of God’s city. He knew that they were called to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel and to live as lights in a dark world. In this session, Dr. Sproul Jr. will describe what it means for Christians to be citizens of heaven even as we live in a world that is often dark and hostile to the light of the gospel.

Live remote from Sanford, FL.

Before arriving at the Celestial City, Pilgrim had to cross a river. That river was death, and every Christian must face that same river until Jesus returns. As Christians, however, we know that death has lost its sting. In this session, Dr. Godfrey will describe how Christians should view death, where our hope should lie, and what Christ’s death and resurrection mean for our own death and ultimate end.

W. Robert Godfrey, Steven Lawson, & R.C. Sproul Jr

While Christians are on life’s pilgrimage, they sigh for the beauty of the eternal city. Augustine knew this well, and he looked forward to the joy of heaven. Christians live in this fallen world, but they live with a view toward the future—glorification in the new heaven and earth. In this session, Dr. Lawson will describe how Christians are to live in this world—in the already of Christ’s work—while at the same time anticipating the future inheritance of the saints—the not yet.