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Evangelism Series Lesson Six: Methods of Evangelism
What if evangelism felt less like a formula—and more like an overflow of worship and love? In this lesson, Steve Childers reveals how the Apostle Paul’s approach to evangelism united preaching, authentic worship, and genuine hospitality to reach both believers and seekers. Learn how you can recapture this gospel-centered vision and make evangelism a natural part of your life and community.
Evangelism Series Lesson Three: A Message About God and Sin
Is your view of the gospel too small? Steve Childers explains how the good news is bigger than personal forgiveness—it heals our guilt, gives us new hearts, and invites us into God’s plan to renew the whole world. Discover the depth of the gospel and why it truly is the best news you’ll ever hear.
Worship Series Lesson Six: Corporate Worship
Corporate worship reveals the sacredness of the ordinary. Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers remind us that Sunday worship is more than a weekly service—it’s the lifeline of the Christian life. In simple, familiar rhythms, the gospel is remembered, grace is received, and our everyday lives are renewed. Discover how worship overflows into every part of life.
Worship Series Lesson Five: Wholehearted Worship
What does it mean to worship God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength? In this new article, John Frame and Steve Childers show how true worship engages your whole being—renewing your mind with truth, stirring your affections for Christ, and offering your body in joyful obedience.
Worship Series Lesson Four: The Cultural Perspective of Worship
What if many worship conflicts come from confusing cultural traditions with biblical commands? John Frame and Steve Childers help leaders distinguish between God’s unchanging elements of worship and the flexible cultural circumstances through which we express them.
URGENT CALL TO PRAYER
On Sunday evening (USA) and Monday morning (East Asia), Pathway Learning launched a 30-hour live online Spiritual Formation course for over 20 underground church planters and leaders in East Asia. Please pray for protection, clarity, and lasting impact—and consider giving to support this vital work.
My New Experiences in Worship Using Older Worship Forms
Since Steve Childers moved to Lookout Mountain, he’s been deeply encouraged by the Christ-centered, God-honoring worship at Lookout Presbyterian Church (PCA). These reflections aren’t about formal vs contemporary worship—they’re about how God uses "robust, historic, liturgical, and varied" worship services to help us experience the beauty and depth of our union with Christ in fresh ways.
Worship Series Lesson Three: The Biblical Perspective of Worship
Most people know the Ten Commandments—but few realize how different the first and second truly are. In this eye-opening article, John Frame and Steve Childers explain why worshiping the right God in the wrong way is still a serious issue today—and how Scripture alone must guide our worship.
Worship Series Lesson Two: Vertical and Horizontal Worship
Worship isn’t just something we offer up to God—it’s also something He uses to shape us and bless others. True worship reaches upward in awe and reverence, and outward in love, encouragement, and witness. Discover how God designed worship to glorify Him and transform His people.
Worship Series Lesson One: Broad and Narrow Worship
What does it mean to worship God—not just on Sundays, but every day of the week? Explore the biblical vision of worship in both the broad and narrow sense. Discover how your whole life can become an offering to God.
Vision for the Gospel of God: Vision Series, Part 5
The Three Tenses of Salvation: A Gospel-Centered Vision. The gospel isn’t just the way in—it’s the way forward. Learn how salvation works in past, present, and future.
Vision for the Church of God: Vision Series, Part 4
Why the Church is the Hope of the World: The Church isn’t just a place of worship—it’s a kingdom outpost. Learn how believers can bring light to every sphere of life.
Vision for the Kingdom of God: Vision Series, Part 3
Why the Coming Kingdom of God is Our Only True Hope: Governments, education, and healthcare can improve life—but they can’t fix the world’s deepest problems. Only God’s kingdom can. Here’s why.
Vision for the Glory of God: Vision Series, Part 2
God delights in blessing those who dare to align their life purpose more with his. What is God’s highest purpose for the world—and for your life? Jesus reveals it in the Sermon on the Mount. Click here to discover more!
Corporate Worship Services: Worship Series Part 6
Our corporate worship should inspire our personal worship and our personal worship should culminate in our corporate worship. Learn practical ways your weekly worship can be more edifying to you and honoring to God in this new episode on worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
Wholehearted Worship - Existential Perspective: Worship Series Part 5
Learn how to worship God with your whole being, including your mind, affections, and intentional, physical acts of your body in this new episode on existential perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
The Cultural Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 4
Should I lift up my arms in worship? Should I bow down? Learn how to avoid the twin dangers of blindly neglecting the worship practices of the past and rigidly adhering to them in the present in this new episode on cultural perspective of Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
The Biblical Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 3
How should you respond to church leaders who accuse you of displeasing God if you don’t worship according to their practices, when you can’t see these practices condemned or required in the Bible? Learn how in this new episode on Biblical Worship by Drs. Frame and Childers.
Hope: Longing for One Kiss and One Song that Never Played
“I love that it [this line] is being questioned in that it means the poetry of the lyric is doing its job. And that job, or one of them, is to evoke deep feeling and imagery in an expansive way so that each reader/singer can see some of their deepest moments within them though having lived very different circumstances from one another.” – T. L. Moody
Vertical and Horizontal Worship: Worship Series Part 2
In our last episode, we learned about the broad and narrow focus in biblical worship. In this episode we learn about the vertical and horizontal focus in biblical worship. Our vertical focus is on God and our horizontal focus is on others. Learn more.