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Good News of a New Life, Gospel Renewal: The Gospel of God, Chapter 6
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Good News of a New Life, Gospel Renewal: The Gospel of God, Chapter 6

Learn How the Gospel Changes Us: Practical Steps to Spiritual Renewal. Discover how disciplines of grace like faith, repentance, and obedience can transform your life in the new series The Gospel of God: Good News You Can Use, by Steve Childers and John Frame.

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The Heart of Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 6
Discipleship, Gospel-Centered, Pastoral Education, Pathway Learning, Practical Theology, Theology, Church Renewal, Steve Childers, Church Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Personal Renewal, Biblical Vision, Spiritual Transformation, Redemption, Kingdom of God, Holy Spirit, Community Restoration, Gospel Transformation, Biblical Teachings, Spiritual Growth, Christian Leadership, Church Planting, Repentance and Faith, Heart Transformation, Spiritual Blessings, Christ-Centered Life, William Cowper, John Stott Discipleship, Gospel-Centered, Pastoral Education, Pathway Learning, Practical Theology, Theology, Church Renewal, Steve Childers, Church Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Personal Renewal, Biblical Vision, Spiritual Transformation, Redemption, Kingdom of God, Holy Spirit, Community Restoration, Gospel Transformation, Biblical Teachings, Spiritual Growth, Christian Leadership, Church Planting, Repentance and Faith, Heart Transformation, Spiritual Blessings, Christ-Centered Life, William Cowper, John Stott

The Heart of Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 6

How does the gospel really change you? What’s your part? What’s God’s part? Discover how the gospel brings personal renewal to the human heart – beginning with yours.

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Spreading Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 5
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Spreading Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 5

The answer our nation and world needs! History has shown that when healthy churches flourish, people and societies flourish. Learn practical ways to help your church spread gospel renewal in the world.

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Community Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 4
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Community Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 4

Discover how your church is meant to be a sign, an instrument, and a foretaste of God’s Kingdom in your community. Learn how embracing both the gathered and scattered ministries of your church can help birth gospel renewal movements.

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Church Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 3
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Church Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 3

Revitalize your church by discovering the biblical path to renewal. Learn how to lead your church to renewal by realigning the church with God’s mission of restoring people to God, each other, and the world in the Renewal Series by Steve Childers.

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Personal Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 2
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Personal Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 2

Personal renewal begins when spiritually thirsty people start turning away from their idols and begin drinking deeply from the well that is Christ. The key to personal renewal is learning how to understand and apply the gospel as God’s ultimate solution to all the problems of life.

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Vision for Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 1
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Vision for Renewal: Renewal, Lesson 1

Experience personal renewal by being swept up in God’s cosmic renewal project to make all things new. Discover God’s kingdom vision for your personal, church, and community renewal through the transforming power of the gospel in the new Renewal Series by Steve Childers.

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What is the Gospel? A Funeral Sermon in Honor of Mary Frame by Steve Childers
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What is the Gospel? A Funeral Sermon in Honor of Mary Frame by Steve Childers

There were many beautiful stories shared in honor of Mary Frame by her family and friends at her funeral service. But John and Mary Frame asked Steve Childers to preach on another beautiful story at her funeral to honor someone else.

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Heart of Renewal: Renewal Series Part 6
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Heart of Renewal: Renewal Series Part 6

How does the gospel really change us? What’s our part? What’s God’s part? Take a deeper look at how the gospel brings personal renewal to the human heart, beginning with yours, in the Renewal Series Pt 6 by Steve Childers.

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Spreading Renewal: Renewal Series Part 5
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Spreading Renewal: Renewal Series Part 5

Paul would be shocked to find the church so horribly divided today. Since no single church has the gifts and resources needed to do effective ministry to a whole community, churches must partner with other churches. Learn more in the Renewal Series Pt 5 by Steve Childers.

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Community Renewal: Renewal Series Part 4
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Community Renewal: Renewal Series Part 4

What is the church’s role in transforming society? Should the church just focus on saving souls? The problem is a failure to have a biblical balance between the not yet and the already aspects of God’s kingdom on earth. Learn more in the Renewal Series Pt 4 by Steve Childers.

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Church Renewal Dynamics: Renewal Series Part 3
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Church Renewal Dynamics: Renewal Series Part 3

The biblical dynamics of church renewal include always aligning God’s church with God’s mission of restoring people to God, one another, their community, and the world through Christ by his Spirit. Learn more in the new Renewal Series Part 3 by Steve Childers.

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Personal Renewal: Renewal Series Part 2
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Personal Renewal: Renewal Series Part 2

Personal, spiritual renewal begins when thirsty people start turning away from their idols and drinking deeply from the well that is Christ. Learn more in the new Renewal Series Part 2 by Steve Childers.

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Vision for Renewal: Renewal Series Part 1
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Vision for Renewal: Renewal Series Part 1

The church today is in serious decline. There is a desperate need for a new outpouring of God’s Spirit. We must first recapture the biblical vision of the great church leaders and churches in history. Learn more in the new Renewal Series Part 1 by Dr. Steve Childers.

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Corporate Worship Services: Worship Series Part 6
Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Corporate Worship, Private Worship, Sabbath Worship, Sabbath Rhythm, John Frame, Steve Childers Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Corporate Worship, Private Worship, Sabbath Worship, Sabbath Rhythm, John Frame, Steve Childers

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.

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Why Your Work Matters to God: Faith and Work Series Part 1
Faith and Work, Theology of Work, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Cultural Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel Transformation, Coram Deo, John Frame, Steve Childers Faith and Work, Theology of Work, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Cultural Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel Transformation, Coram Deo, John Frame, Steve Childers

Why Your Work Matters to God: Faith and Work Series Part 1

In today’s hybrid work culture, Christians need to embrace biblical principles and practices of work and rest. Recommit to a biblical view of work this Labor Day and get 50% DISCOUNT on “Faith & Work Course” by Dr. Steve Childers.

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Wholehearted Worship - Existential Perspective: Worship Series Part 5
Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, Existential Perspective, John Frame Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, Existential Perspective, John Frame

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.

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The Cultural Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 4
Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, John Frame Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, John Frame

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.

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The Biblical Perspective of Worship: Worship Series Part 3
Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, John Frame Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Regulative Principle, Contemporary Worship, Traditional Worship, Biblical Worship, Worship Wars, John Frame

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.

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Hope: Longing for One Kiss and One Song that Never Played
Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Broad Worship, Narrow Worship, Vertical Worship, Horizontal Worship, John Frame Worship, Discipleship, Practical Theology, Pastoral Theology, Church Planting, Church Renewal, Gospel Renewal, Spiritual Formation, Gospel, Transformation, True Worship, Theology of Worship, Coram Deo, Broad Worship, Narrow Worship, Vertical Worship, Horizontal Worship, John Frame

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

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