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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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God's Triune Nature and Work: Perspectives, Lesson 3
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God's Triune Nature and Work: Perspectives, Lesson 3

Discover how to worship the Triune God with the Triune Gospel–from the Perspectives series by Frame and Childers. Learn how God's plan for humanity and the world unfolds through the Father, Son, and Spirit in creation, redemption, and restoration.

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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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Pursuing the Kingdom vs. the King: Priorities, Lesson 4
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Pursuing the Kingdom vs. the King: Priorities, Lesson 4

WARNING: You can pursue the Kingdom and not the King! Join us as we explore the profound difference between serving God as a faithful servant and a beloved child–in Lesson 4 of the Priorities Series by Steve Childers.

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Goals vs. Desires: Priorities, Lesson 3
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Goals vs. Desires: Priorities, Lesson 3

Feeling overwhelmed in ministry? Discover the freedom and peace that comes by applying Jesus’ teaching on anxiety in the Sermon on the Mount. Learn how to work toward your goals and pray for your desires in this series by Steve Childers.

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Your Time vs. Your Priorities: Priorities, Lesson 2
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Your Time vs. Your Priorities: Priorities, Lesson 2

Break free from the frantic pace of life and ministry by learning how to prioritize what truly matters. Discover how to break free from the tyranny of the urgent in this new series by Steve Childers.

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Ministry Success: Priorities, Lesson 1
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Ministry Success: Priorities, Lesson 1

Learn how true success is not found in what you do for Christ, but who you are in him. Discover the secret to fulfilling ministry by redefining success in the first lesson in this new series by Steve Childers.

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Knowing God the Spirit as Future Restorer: Faith in Theology, Lesson 6
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Knowing God the Spirit as Future Restorer: Faith in Theology, Lesson 6

Learn what will happen when Jesus returns to establish the fullness of God’s kingdom on earth forever–through the power of the Holy Spirit. Explore biblical teaching on the resurrection of the dead, the judgment day, and the world to come in this new series by Drs. Frame and Childers.

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