For My Friends Gnat-ural Beauty 19 Apr 202119 Apr 2021 By Anne Meyer Have you ever walked into a cloud of gnats? Like where you hold your breath for fear of sucking one in and flail your arms in futility…
Discipleship Tools… Key Concept Calendar Flip Book 15 Apr 2021 Beginning on page 140 in the back of the Come, Holy Spirit travel log, you will find a daily Key Concept Calendar where you can record the most important thing…
Discipleship Tools… Come, Holy Spirit! 23 Mar 2021 By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary, St. LouisAuthor of Sculptor Spirit: Models of Sanctification from Spirit Christology How often have you prayed to the Holy Spirit? How regularly do…
Discipleship Tools… Praying the Emotion Wheel 20 Mar 202120 Mar 2021 By Gabriella Wiechman To give you an idea of how to use the emotion wheel, I am going to walk you through my process. When I am noticing myself getting…
Discipleship Tools… Ash Wednesday Keepsakes 15 Feb 2021 By Christi Gerloff I’ve always liked the feel of Ash Wednesday services. There’s just something special about the quiet, somber remembrance of what God did for us through His Son.…
Cultural Studies… Hope-Filled Speech 14 Jan 202114 Jan 2021 By Sam Fink If you’ve known Jesus for more than about 15 minutes, you probably know, or have at least heard a sermon on 1 Peter 3:15. When I was…
Cultural Studies… A Spiritual Body? 11 Jan 2021 By Conrad Gempf So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised…
For My Friends Top Bloggers of 2020 31 Dec 202031 Dec 2020 2020 was a strange and wonderful year in so many ways! The Next Step Community shared 135,572 words in 186 posts, encouraged 13,625 people who viewed our next step content…
Top Ten Blogs of 2020 28 Dec 202031 Dec 2020 Here are The Next Step Community's most read blogs this year. Thanks to all of the 13,569 visitors who helped us log over 27,000 views since we launched in March…
Discipleship Tools… Light in the Darkness Hymn Journal Book Tabs 6 Dec 2020 Once again, our Lead Illustrator, Valerie Matyas, has provided a printable set of book tabs specially designed to go with your hymn journal. These tabs complement Light in the Darkness:…
Discipleship Tools… What Promise is Guiding Your Next Step? 1 Sep 2020 By Eden Keefe Earlier this summer, I started a Hymn Journal project that was very meaningful. The Hymn Journal “Ponder Anew” was authored by Justin Rossow and published by Next Step Press.…
For My Friends What If You’re Not OK Right Now? 27 Aug 2020 By Amy Larson, Mom Fuel Empire There are pages and pages of books and blog posts dedicated to what people usually refer to as “self-help”. All of them promise the…
Discipleship Tools… Disconnected 21 Aug 202021 Aug 2020 Note: This is an excerpt from the book The Emotional Devotional: Following Jesus in Every Emotion coming soon from Next Step Press. This book, written by teenage girls, for teenage girls, is meant to…
Discipleship Tools… Go, Stand, Witness, Rejoice: A Close Reading of Acts 5:16-42 18 Jun 202018 Jun 2020 By Conrad Gempf G'morning, I’m Conrad and I teach New Testament at London School of Theology. Our principal wanted us to do a series of sermons about the first Christians:…
Cultural Studies… Preaching Metaphor 1 May 2020 Next Step Press is committed to helping you take a small next step following Jesus. Our mission is to resource individuals, discipling groups, congregations, and discipling leaders. As part of…
Cultural Studies Catie Girl’s Mask 7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020 By John Cordrey Tonight as I was leaving Catie girl's room, with her sound asleep, something out of the ordinary caught my eye. Earlier in the day, my second-grader had…
Discipleship Tools… Bible Margin Art: Comfort In the Midst of Crisis 27 Mar 202028 Dec 2020 By Ann Gillaspie In the midst of this health crisis, I find myself drawn to my faith art. It pulls me to God's Word and invites me to share that…
For My Friends An Opening Door 22 Feb 202020 Mar 2020 By Ed Warzyniec I received a copy of "You Follow Me" from my good and longtime friend Jim Fink. Jim is a member of our Saturday Morning Men's Bible Study/Prayer…