Discipleship Tools Dining Room Sanctuary 27 Mar 202028 Dec 2020 By Valerie Matyas This weekend we embark on Round 2 of social distancing at home worship. I will admit, last Sunday was rough. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful…
Discipleship Tools… Shelter-In-Place Holy Week Resource 27 Mar 202022 Apr 2020 Sometimes things don’t go the way you had planned…. Who would have thought, even a few weeks ago, that we would be celebrating Holy Week in our homes instead of…
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…
Discipleship Tools… Handling the Word: The Music, Art, and Meditation of “Hymn Journaling” 20 Mar 202028 Dec 2020 The “Bible Journaling craze,” as Christianity Today called in back in 2016, has continued to grow, expand, and morph into a variety of spiritual practices and disciplines. One recent twist:…
Discipleship Tools… Prayer Space for Covid-19 16 Mar 202028 Dec 2020 By Pat Maier Everybody’s talking about the COVID-19. The conversation began over a month ago when the threat seemed far, far away - today it’s in our backyard. We have…
Discipleship Tools… Reflections from “On That Morning” 9 Mar 202031 Mar 2020 By Pat Maier As one of the illustrators for When from Death I'm Free: A Hymn Journal for Holy Week, I was privileged to be the visual artist for the…
Discipleship Tools Permission Granted 25 Feb 202010 Jun 2020 By Valerie Matyas In the creative journaling world there is something called a “Permission Page” or a “Dedication Page.” This opening sheet is typically found at the beginning of a…
Discipleship Tools Kip Fox, Words & Music 20 Feb 202027 Mar 2020 When from Death I'm Free: A Hymn Journal for Holy Week has been a #1 New Release on Amazon for a week now. One of the things that makes this…
Discipleship Tools… Art that Preaches the Gospel 14 Feb 20206 Jun 2024 God, it seems, has always been partial to art. Oh, sure, there is the command against creating graven images given on Mount Sinai: but that command seems to be focused fairly…
Discipleship Tools Share Your Experience 18 Jan 2020 Next Step Press published a "discipleship travel log" for the Advent and Christmas season. Now we need to hear from the people who traveled that road with us. It's OK…
Discipleship Tools The Stained Glass Prayer 12 Dec 201920 Mar 2020 Sometimes in life you need hacks. Not because you are cutting corners, but because the common way or familiar way is cumbersome, messy, or ineffective. Cleaning hacks, organizing hacks, classroom…
Discipleship Tools Something Different for Advent 3 Nov 2019 "Why write a book of Advent devotions?" That's what I kept asking myself this summer. And I couldn't come up with a very good answer. I mean, friends and family…
