In his book, Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan has written one of the most beautiful allegories about the journey we all travel as believers.

The book describes the hero, Christian, and his journey from the City of Destruction to his heavenly destination, the Celestial City.

At one point during their travels, Christian and his companion suddenly find themselves in the Swamp of Despondency. Still bearing his burden, Christian begins to sink in the mire. His traveling companion manages to get out, but he returns to the City of Destruction without giving aid to Christian. Christian is left all alone and sinking even deeper in the mire, until Help, the allegorical figure for the Holy Spirit, pulls him free from the swamp.

Christian then asks Help why this dangerous plot of land has not been mended so that poor travelers might go safely to the Celestial City. Help replies, "This miry slough is such a place that cannot be mended."

How true it is in real life! As hard as we try to avoid them, whether young in the Lord, or spiritually mature, swamps of despondency seem inevitable...

We receive emails from our listeners around the world every month and they are so encouraging and humbling to us. We’d like to share some of those with you:

Location: Afghanistan Comments: I love listening to Allworship.com. I am trying to listen to only gospel and eliminate all secular music--no matter how danceable the tune, or catchy the chorus and I am grateful to have Allworship.com which is 24 hours.

Location: United States Comments: I need to say thank you for the weekly All Worship email message.  Each week, I send out an email reminding our men of our fellowship meeting. I add the message every week. Almost every week someone comments how the message hit them right where they live. Sounds like the Holy Spirit to me. Thank you.

AllWorship.com is a not-for-profit Christian radio station exclusively on the Internet that provides commercial-free worship music in four formats: contemporary worship, praise & worship, Spanish worship, and instrumental worship. Christians in faraway countries, particularly missionaries, who don’t have access to a terrestrial station, can now listen free to Christian worship music and it doesn’t cost them a dime–our ministry picks up the tab for all programming, streaming and music fees. The ministry is completely funded by listeners through donations and has been broadcasting to all corners of the earth since 2004.