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The Spirit’s Magnificent Acts in Restoration, Scene Two
When Christ returns, the Spirit will fully restore God's people, God's world, and God's mission. Discover why our hope isn't a bodiless heaven but resurrection life on a renewed earth, and why God's redemptive mission ends while his creation mission, and your calling, continues forever.
The Spirit’s Magnificent Acts in Restoration, Scene One
What is the Holy Spirit doing in the world today? Discover how the risen Christ works through his Spirit and church to apply redemption, form a new people (the Church), advance the gospel, make disciples, and carry his redemptive mission to the nations.
The Son’s Magnificent Acts in Redemption
Steve Childers traces the eternal Son’s redemptive work from the Old Testament to Christ’s incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension. His decisive victory over sin, death, Satan, and this fallen world secures redemption now, while pointing ahead to the day he returns to complete that victory and renew all things.
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.
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 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.
Designed for Influence
God didn't place image bearers in creation as passive occupants. He commissioned them as cultivators — called to work, keep, and extend their influence across every sphere of life. This lesson explores the Genesis mandate behind that calling and shows leaders how to bring its transformative framework to the congregations entrusted to their care.
Re-Imagining Your Work as Worship
Work and worship were never meant to be two separate things. Lesson 2 of the Faith & Work Series gives church leaders a clear, biblical foundation — from Genesis to Paul — to teach their congregations that daily work done for God's glory is a true and meaningful act of worship.
Why Your Work Matters to God
In the beginning, God worked in creation and put humans in paradise to work. So work is not part of the curse but a vital part of God's original mission for humanity to flourish. However, the curse of sin sometimes makes our work painful, frustrating, and feel meaningless. The emphasis of this series is on helping you develop a more biblical and practical understanding of the ultimate value of your work as a calling from God.
Conflict Series Lesson Six: Overcoming Conflict
Forgiveness is never easy, and it’s never cheap. But it’s the final and most freeing step in resolving conflict. This week’s teaching walks through what true forgiveness looks like, why it’s so hard, and how God empowers us to do it anyway. If you’ve been holding on to pain or struggling to let go of the past, don’t miss this.
Conflict Series Lesson Five: Owning Conflict
True spiritual leadership begins with humility and repentance. This article unpacks seven powerful marks of genuine confession that every church leader should know—drawn from Scripture and Ken Sande’s Peacemaker. Learn how to lead through repentance, restore unity, and reflect the gospel in all your relationships.
Conflict Series Lesson Four: Engaging Conflict
How do you know when to let something go and when God is calling you to speak up? See how confrontation can actually be an act of love when done with humility and grace.