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Help Bring Hope to Inner Cities: Join Us in Serving the Urban Poor in North America!
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Help Bring Hope to Inner Cities: Join Us in Serving the Urban Poor in North America!

Meet one of our key global partners serving the urban poor in North America – Rev. Craig Garriott and his team at Metro Baltimore Seminary. Learn how to make a difference in North America by joining our strategic global partnership.

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Make a Difference: Equip Underserved Church Leaders Around the World
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Make a Difference: Equip Underserved Church Leaders Around the World

Pathway Learning has already equipped a growing global community of underserved church leaders from more than 300 denominations representing 60 countries in 7 languages. Learn how you can make a difference by helping equip church leaders worldwide.

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Help Serve the Persecuted, Underground Church in Iran!
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Help Serve the Persecuted, Underground Church in Iran!

From the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel to the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, the Middle East faces upheaval that shapes history for good or evil. At the center of this turmoil is Iran, presenting us with a unique opportunity – to pray for and support the persecuted underground church in Iran.

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Six Years Ago Today: My Meeting With Pastor Wang Yi Before His Imprisonment
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Six Years Ago Today: My Meeting With Pastor Wang Yi Before His Imprisonment

On this day six years ago, I met Pastor Wang Yi in China. Two days later, he was imprisoned for his faith—a sentence he still serves today. Yet, the underground church in China continues to grow, thrive, and transform lives despite persecution. Learn how Pathway Learning equips persecuted leaders to plant and grow healthy churches worldwide.

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Introduction to the Gospel of God
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Introduction to the Gospel of God

It's hard to believe that, after two thousand years, the Christian church is still debating, “What is the gospel?”. Read John Frame’s introduction to the new Applied Theology series book, "The Gospel of God: Good News about Who God is and What God Does."

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Good News About God’s Mission: The Gospel of God, Chapter 1
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Good News About God’s Mission: The Gospel of God, Chapter 1

The Gospel is not just a set of beliefs, but an unfolding story meant to shape your entire life. God's salvation in Christ reaches beyond the redemption of souls to the renewal of all creation. Explore this in the new series, The Gospel of God, by Steve Childers and John Frame.

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Good News About God’s Kingdom: The Gospel of God, Chapter 2
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Good News About God’s Kingdom: The Gospel of God, Chapter 2

Discover how the good news about God’s kingdom can give you a deep sense of purpose in both your private and public life. Explore how God’s kingdom has come, is coming, and will come in the series The Gospel of God: Good News You Can Use, by Steve Childers and John Frame.

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Good News About God’s King: The Gospel of God, Chapter 3
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Good News About God’s King: The Gospel of God, Chapter 3

Do you know the highest blessing of the gospel? [Hint: It's not forgiveness.] Explore God’s amazing promises of forgiveness, a new heart, and a renewed world for all who believe. Then learn the highest blessing in this new series by Drs. John Frame and Steve Childers.

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Good News of a New Standing, Forgiveness: The Gospel of God, Chapter 4
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Good News of a New Standing, Forgiveness: The Gospel of God, Chapter 4

Explore the life-changing good news that you are not only a pardoned criminal, but also an accepted and beloved child of God in the new series The Gospel of God: Good News You Can Use, by Steve Childers and John Frame.

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Good News of a New Heart, The Holy Spirit: The Gospel of God, Chapter 5
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Good News of a New Heart, The Holy Spirit: The Gospel of God, Chapter 5

Explore the life-changing good news that you can be not only born again, but also be set free from sin’s power, and transformed by the Holy Spirit in the new series The Gospel of God: Good News You Can Use, by Steve Childers and John Frame.

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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
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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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The Main Thing: Priorities, Lesson 6
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The Main Thing: Priorities, Lesson 6

Do you love me? Learn the life-changing lesson Jesus taught Peter after he answered yes to this question. Learn how to make the main thing the main thing in lesson 6 in the Priorities Series by Steve Childers.

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Product vs. Process Living: Priorities, Lesson 5
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Product vs. Process Living: Priorities, Lesson 5

Discover how lasting joy in life and ministry comes when you learn how to find joy in the process, not just the product. Learn how to apply Elizabeth Elliott's challenge, "Don't let your living for tomorrow slay your living for today." in this series by Steve Childers.

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