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  • For MeHere you can find real life stories of next step discipleship and tools that support your faith walk. Real help from real people can help you delight in taking your personal next step.
  • For My FriendsWe follow Jesus better when we follow him together. You need resources for your discpling relationships. The stories and ideas will help you follow Jesus with someone on your rope.
  • For My ChurchWe all need a place to belong. Having a faith family helps us follow Jesus. And sometimes, our faith families need some help as they resource the journey of faith. Get some fresh ideas here.
  • Discipling LeadersYou can’t lead if you don’t follow. Here you will find insight, encouragement, support, and resources to help you follow Jesus as you help others follow Jesus, too.
  • AboutThe Next Step community is dedicated to helping people help each other delight in taking a next step follow Jesus. Get to know our thinking, our philosophy, and our heart.

The Next Step Community

The Next Step Community is a group of people, like you, who need other people to help them take a next step following Jesus. You won’t find any preconceived notions or quick fixes here; just real people trying to follow Jesus in real life. You are welcome to join in!

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As The Next Step Community, we are sold out on helping each other delight in taking a next step following Jesus. Not everyone is going to resonate with our values or our basic vibe, and that’s OK; we believe having a variety of options is the best way to sustain…Continue reading “About”

Discipling Leaders

Sermon Series in the Age of Covid: Think Tinker Toys, Not Jenga.

30 Sep 20209 Oct 2020
To build a sermon series that reaches people in today's communication environment, build connections, not a tower. (Think Tinker Toys, not Jenga.) by Justin Rossow If over half of my…
Discipling Leaders

Sermons in the Age of Covid: Think Weekly Meal Plan, Not Sunday Buffet.

22 Sep 20209 Oct 2020
To reach people in today's communication environment, expand your one shot Sunday sermon into multiple communication channels. by Justin Rossow Our communication culture has been shifting for awhile. Covid may…
Cultural Studies…

Be a Whole Person in an Age of Zoom Haircuts

16 Sep 202022 Oct 2020
By Justin Rossow I just got my first professional haircut in 38 weeks. I hadn't been counting, but the salon's computer was keeping track. As the stylist cut my hair,…
For Me…

Insurmountable Power

13 Sep 2020
By: Naomi Rossow Awe-struck. That’s how I felt after an hour and a half conversation with my boyfriend. Awe-struck. He reminded me of the great, insurmountable power of God. I…
Discipling Leaders…

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

8 Sep 2020
The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 3: Great Is Thy FaithfulnessDate: 9 September 2020Guest: Rev. Dr. Reed Lessing, Concordia University, St. PaulAlso available on: iTunes When Season 2 of…
Cultural Studies…

Delight!

2 Sep 20203 Sep 2020
Next Step Press is committed to helping you take a small next step following Jesus. Our mission is to cultivate individuals and communities that infuse collaboration, innovation, and delight into…
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 Me…

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…
Discipling Leaders…

It is Well With My Soul

26 Aug 202026 Aug 2020
The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 12: It is Well With My SoulDate: 26 August 2020Guest: By Rev. Dr. Theodore Hopkins, Concordia University, Ann ArborAlso available on: iTunes Professor…
Discipling Leaders…

The Greatest of These Is LOVE?

26 Aug 2020
By Rev. Dr. Theodore Hopkins Editor's Note: The following sermon was preached on February 3, 2019 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Milan, Michigan. The text was 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13.…
Discipleship Tools…

Scripture Doodle Video Tutorial

24 Aug 2020
By Valerie Matyas You may have heard of Bible Journaling, Devotional Journaling or Scripture Doodles. You may have seen art in the margin of Bibles, gracing the squares of desktop…
For Me…

Knows My Needs and Well Provides Me

22 Aug 202023 Oct 2020
By Katie Helmreich Ah, school supplies... There's something uniquely invigorating about a fresh notebook. Pristine erasers. Loading the lead and clicking it to the tip of the pencil. Cracking open…
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…
For Me

Faith Like A Child

19 Aug 202019 Aug 2020
By Kim Longden Oswald Chambers, a preacher who lived in the late 1800’s, says: A child’s awareness is so absorbed in his mother that although he is not consciously thinking…
Discipling Leaders…

O God, Our Help in Ages Past

18 Aug 2020
The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 11: O God, Our Help in Ages PastDate: 19 August 2020Guest: Pat Maier, Co-founder of Visual Faith™ Ministry: https://www.visualfaithmin.org/ Also available on: iTunes…
Discipling Leaders…

Treasure, Where You Least Expect It

17 Aug 2020
By Justin Rossow Editor's Note: This sermon was first preached at the Installation of Rev. Matt Hein as Senior Pastor at NewLife Community Lutheran Church near Flint, MI on 16…
Discipleship Tools…

Feeling Secure

13 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…
Discipling Leaders…

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

12 Aug 202012 Aug 2020
The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 10: Come, Thou Fount of Every BlessingDate: 12 August 2020Guest: Matt Hein, Senior Pastor,NewLife Community Lutheran Church, Flint, MichiganAlso available on: iTunes Season…

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