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Tag: Discipleship Experiment

Discipling Leaders…

Postures and Experiments for Following Jesus

1 May 20261 May 2026
The Next Step PodcastSeason 9: Following Jesus at T-RKDEpisode 01 (48 min)Date: 23 April 2026Guest: Chelsea Chapin and Jess Knoll, Trinity, Arcadia, t-rkd.org Also available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

Experimenting With Small Steps

20 Mar 202420 Mar 2024
The Next Step PodcastSeason 7: Wednesdays are for Walking WithEpisode 09 (41 min)Date: 20 March 2024Guest: Jamie Wiechman, Breathe Life Ministries, www.breathelifetoday.com Also available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora,…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

Come, Sacrificing Often

6 Mar 20246 Mar 2024
By Jamie Wiechman and Justin Rossow Jamie: My January and February were a bit intense this year. That’s on top of last year’s intensity. Now that I’m counting, I guess…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

How are You Today?

18 Jan 202418 Jan 2024
By Katie Helmreich “Hey! How are you today?” “Good, good. How are you?” How many times do we ask or hear that question in a day? How many times do we…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

Noticing Your Non-Judgmental Noticing

14 Dec 202314 Dec 2023
The Next Step PodcastSeason 7: Wednesdays are for Walking WithEpisode 06 (45 min)Date: 14 December 2023Guests: Pastor Sam Fink Also available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Vurbl, and Amazon…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

Information, Imitation, and Innovation

6 Dec 202312 Dec 2023
The Next Step PodcastSeason 7: Wednesdays are for Walking WithEpisode 05 (36 min)Date: 6 December 2023Guests: Daniel, David, Ryan, and Pastor Nathan Wendorf Also available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,…
Disciple LIke You Mean It…

Lowering the Bar for Your Next Step

29 Nov 202315 Mar 2024
The Next Step PodcastSeason 7: Wednesdays are for Walking WithEpisode 04 (42 min)Date: 29 November 2023Guests: Katie Helmreich, Kim Longden, and Jamie Wiechman Also available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 5

30 Mar 202311 Apr 2023
By Alli Bauck “Hi, friends!” A familiar voice enthusiastically welcomes me. It belongs to Annie F. Downs, a woman I have never met; but she and I have been on…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 4

22 Mar 202322 Mar 2023
By Alli Bauck If anyone is keeping track, we are over halfway through the Lenten season. (Resurrection Sunday is getting closer!!!) For me, personally, the last eleven days have been…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week … What?

16 Mar 202317 Apr 2023
By Alli Bauck This week felt like one step forward, two steps back. As Spring makes its anticipated arrival to the Kansas City area, the forecast last week was a…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 2

8 Mar 2023
By Alli Bauck Wow. Podcasts are e-v-e-r-y-where! I started out my #Lentenwalk with a varied list of podcasts (see my first Lenten Walk blog); however, my Spotify library has doubled…
Faith Experiment…

#Lenten Walk, Week 1

1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023
By Alli Bauck While visiting with a friend on the phone last night, she asked me how my Lenten walk practice was going. I laughed and reported that on the…
Faith Experiment…

Lenten Walk

23 Feb 202323 Feb 2023
By Alli Bauck I placed the rectangular box on the table and ceremoniously lifted the lid. A brand new pair of tennis shoes was waiting inside. Peeling back the packing…
Discipling Leaders

Readers Theatre: Look, Lift Up Your Eyes, and See!

18 Oct 2022
By Justin Rossow Just recently, I got to lead a Next Step Immersion Weekend at a congregation down in Texas (hit me up with a pm if you or your…
Discipleship Tools…

Your Cloud of Witnesses

25 Jul 2022
By Katie Helmreich Basketball, an afternoon at the beach, and a Rubber Band Boat Race Tournament bracket with a group of third cousins makes for a stand out great day.…
Faith Experiment

A New Walk

21 Oct 20212 Nov 2022
By Raelyn Pracht I recently wanted to start a simple new habit to reach a certain step count every day. I knew two things going into this: (1) I needed…
Discipleship Tools…

Small Conversations

7 Oct 20211 Nov 2022
By Justin Rossow Sid is good at her job; and her job right now is to help unfreeze my frozen shoulder, something that has to be painful in order for…
Cultural Studies…

Social Media and a Sense of Play

16 Jul 2021
An interview with Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller In this special episode of the Next Step Podcast, Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller, Senior Pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas talks to…

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