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.…
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…
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… 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…
Discipling Leaders… Come Unto Me, Ye Weary 4 Aug 2020 The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 9: Come Unto Me, Ye WearyDate: 5 August 2020Guest: Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Concordia Seminary—St. LouisAlso available on: iTunes Season 2 of the…
Discipling Leaders… I Am Trusting Thee, Lord Jesus 28 Jul 20202 Aug 2020 The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 8: I Am Trusting Thee, Lord JesusDate: 29 July 2020Guest: Conrad Gempf, London School of TheologyAlso available on: iTunes Season 2 of the…
Discipling Leaders… In the Cross of Christ I Glory 21 Jul 2020 The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 7: In the Cross of Christ I GloryDate: 22 July 2020Guest: Katie Helmreich, Visual Faith Illustrator and Next Step Community AuthorAlso available on:…
Discipling Leaders… How Can I Keep from Singing? 14 Jul 2020 The Next Step PodcastSeason 2: Ponder AnewEpisode 6: How Can I Keep from Singing?Date: 15 July 2020Guest: Karen Hunter, Visual Faith IllustratorAlso available on: iTunes Season 2 of the Next…
Discipleship Tools… Noticing Yourself With God 31 Mar 20204 Jun 2020 By Steve Wiechman I read this post the other day while quarantine Facebook scrolling: “Can’t go to work. No sports on TV. Who am I?” That’s funny on day two…
Discipling Leaders… Discipleship & Everyday Life 27 Feb 202017 Jan 2021 On Sunday morning, as I sat way up high in the balcony with my boy, this prayer caught my attention: P: For those who are in danger of having the…
Discipleship Tools… Art that Preaches the Gospel 14 Feb 2020 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…
Cultural Studies… Tiberius Maximus: A Study in Scenes 6 Nov 2019 Scene Since I didn't pay the extra $11 to choose my own seat, I was in the middle (of course) between a woman with a yellow cardigan at the window,…
For Me A Jackpot with a Countdown Timer 23 Oct 2019 Let's imagine this situation: in a very posh casino, with a very unique promotion, and some crazy luck, not one but two people end up hitting an "Easy Money" jackpot…
Discipling Leaders… Seedbeds of Discipleship in Greenhouses of Grace 20 Oct 20199 Jun 2020 I've been reading a business book lately about what it takes to launch something new in an unstable or uncertain environment (welcome to my life). The book's got some really…
Discipling Leaders… Please Pass the Potatoes 15 Oct 201923 Oct 2020 This blog is a response to A Full Table for Empty People written by my friend Steve Wiechman of Breathe Life Ministries. You really should go read that and then come…
For Me Beloved, Just Lost 12 Oct 2019 It dawned on me in my devotion time just the other day that we usually think the Prodigal Son was OUT and then back IN again; outside the Kingdom and…