Pathway Learning Blog
Access our growing library of hundreds of blog posts covering topics relevant to church leaders. Preview and read these blog posts now.
SEARCH THE BLOG
Looking for something in particular? Search our hundreds of blog posts on topics of interest to church leaders.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jerry Bridges Versus Jerry Bridges
Childers reviews Jerry Bridges' evolving theology, noting his early focus on "dependent responsibility" in his best-selling book "The Pursuit of Holiness” versus his later focus on God's grace and the gospel as the motive and means of holiness–moving away from a performance-based approach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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