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The Son’s Magnificent Acts in Redemption
The Bible’s story moves from creation, to humanity’s fall, and then to God’s great acts of redemption. This article explores how the Son carries forward God’s mission through Israel and fulfills it in Jesus Christ—redeeming fallen humanity, defeating sin and Satan, and reshaping how we understand and experience the gospel, salvation, and mission.
A Remarkable Week of Training with China’s Underground Church
Underground church leaders in China have completed more than 30 hours of intensive Pathway Learning spiritual formation training. Amid growing persecution, they are being strengthened in the gospel—and a new generation of indigenous trainers is being equipped to multiply this training among church leaders throughout China.
Humanity’s Rebellious Acts in The Fall
Why are things not the way they’re supposed to be? This article explores how humanity’s rebellion against God brought guilt, corruption, brokenness, and distorted mission into the world—and why understanding the depth of the Fall is essential for grasping the greatness of God’s salvation and his continuing mission today.
The Father's Magnificent Acts in Creation
God’s mission begins not with rescue but creation. Humanity was made in God’s image to enjoy his presence, reflect his character, represent his rule, cultivate his world, and extend his blessing. Though creation was good, it was unfinished; redemption restores people and creation together toward God’s original purposes and flourishing.
The Christological Foundation of Theology
Sound theology must be centered on Jesus Christ and the biblical gospel. Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explain how Christ’s saving work, identity, promises, and demands reveal God’s kingdom already present, advancing by the Spirit through the church, and awaiting its fullness when Jesus returns to restore all things.
What in the World Is God Doing —and How Can I Join Him?
Discover The Mission of God, Pathway Learning’s new six-part series exploring the grand biblical story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. Listen to Dr. Steve Childers’ live presentation, read the lecture notes with academic footnotes, and download a free 10-step Learning Path for deeper study and application.
The Restorative Foundation of Theology
The ultimate goal of salvation is not merely forgiveness or going to heaven, but the restoration of fallen humanity and creation according to God’s original design. Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explore how Christ restores our broken relationships with God, ourselves, others, and creation—and gives us hope that God is making all things new.
A Timely and Hopeful Call to Recover America’s Moral Foundations
James Cunningham’s One Nation Divided by God argues that America’s deepest crisis is spiritual, not merely political. This review explores his recovery of the Declaration as America’s creed and his hopeful call to truth, humility, love of neighbor, repentance, and national renewal.
The Covenantal Foundation of Theology
Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explain the Eternal Covenant of Redemption and trace its historical outworking through God’s covenants with humanity. These oath-bound promises do more than connect biblical events; they provide a framework for understanding Scripture’s unified story, God’s relationship with his people, and redemption’s fulfillment in Christ.
The Redemptive Foundations of Theology
Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explain how Scripture’s story moves from creation and fall to redemption and restoration. They show that God’s saving work in Christ restores fallen humanity and creation, and that sound theology must understand every doctrine within this unfolding redemptive history revealed throughout the whole Bible.
The Trinitarian Foundations of Theology
Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explain why the Trinity is not only one doctrine among others, but the biblical perspective that orders all doctrine. The Father creates, the Son redeems, and the Spirit restores, revealing the Triune Lord whose work gives theology its historic shape, unity, and eternal goal.
The Lordship Foundations of Theology
The heart of theology is knowing God as Lord. From creation and the fall to Christ’s victory and promised return, Scripture reveals Jesus as the sovereign Redeemer and Restorer of all things. Sound theology calls us to love, serve, and honor him as LORD in every area of life for his glory.
The Missional Foundations of Theology
God didn't give us a book of religious bits. He gave us one story — the story of his mission — running unbroken from Genesis to Revelation. Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers show how that narrative reshapes everything: how we read Scripture, how we do theology, how we lead.
The Biblical Foundations of Theology
Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers explain how Christians can affirm God’s truth revealed in creation while holding firmly to sola Scriptura. Scripture alone gives us all we need for salvation, faith, and life, while the Holy Spirit also works through pastors, and teachers to help believers understand God’s Word and mature in Christ.
What is Sound Theology?
Sound theology isn't just correct belief — it is doctrine that is both true and spiritually life-giving. The principle of sola Scriptura, which the Protestant Reformation recovered from Scripture itself, means every follower of Jesus has direct access to sound doctrine through the Bible alone, illuminated by the Holy Spirit.
Why We All Must Be Theologians
Everyone who opens Scripture to face a hard question is already doing theology, it was never reserved for scholars. The New Testament writers, a fisherman, a tax collector, a physician, were task theologians, applying God's Word to real life. So are we. The question is whether we're becoming better ones.
Paying It Forward
God created work before the Fall and will redeem it in the new creation. This article explores how Jesus is restoring God's original purpose for work and why every believer's vocation matters in God's mission. Discover how faithful work today participates in Christ's work of making all things new.
Join God’s Cosmic Restoration Project
God never abandoned His mission for humanity. From Adam through Abraham, David, and Jesus to you today, one mandate stands: multiply disciples, rule wisely over creation, and build His kingdom on earth. Your work is not preparation for eternity—it is participation in eternity.
Memorial Day Tribute to My Uncle Shot Down in the Battle of Midway
A moving tribute to Marine Colonel Lloyd Childers, a World War II hero who survived the Battle of Midway and later served in combat in Korea and Vietnam. Through firsthand combat testimony and family history, this article honors the courage, sacrifice, and enduring legacy of America’s veterans.
Called to Rule Now & Forever
Every believer bears the image of God — not as a title reserved for the powerful, but as a calling given to all. Through Christ, we have been raised and seated with him, appointed as vice-regents over the everyday domains of work, family, and community. That reign has already begun.