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The Next Step Podcast

The Next Step Podcast

Written by: Justin Rossow
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 Next Step Press helps you delight in taking a next step following Jesus. This podcast is dedicated to exploring resources, tools, and experiments that help us help each other follow Jesus better. Find out more at www.FindMyNextStep.orgJustin Rossow Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Spirituality
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  • A Difficult Holy Week

    A Difficult Holy Week
    Mar 27 2024

    Episode 10 was first recorded on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. It features a conversation with Jamie Wiechman and Justin Rossow.

    After a brief introduction, you'll hear Justin process the Compass question (Where am I right now?) as well as the first of the Standard Following Prayers (Jesus, where are you speaking into my life?)

    Then Jamie follows suit and shares a little bit about the difficult season her family is facing this Holy Week, and what it means for Jesus to drink the cup of suffering for us in the Garden of Gethsemane.

    Both friends take comfort from the image of Jesus serving and sustaining us, even when we are too weak or too wounded to do anything active to try and get better.


    CHOOSE YOUR FAITH ADVENTURE

    If you decide to read more the Gethsemane blog they talked about in this episode, head over to It's Getting Dark.

    If choose to hear more from NT Wright and Kate Bowler, check out this video: https://youtu.be/xICbsfop5PA?si=DyW4Sqd76AEF8i4V.

    If you would like to check out the Disciple Like You Mean It course, visit this page. You can also discover more about Breathe Life Ministries at their home page: https://breathelifetoday.com/

    The intro and outro music comes from Peter Prochnow's rendition of the hymn, "Awake My Soul and With the Sun" and is available from the Michigan District of the LCMS at www.thehymnalproject.com. Used by permission.

    This episode of the Next Step Podcast was supported in part by the generosity of Next Step Patrons. Please consider becoming a Next Step Patron before the end 2023. To see different options for support, including monthly and annual options, visit https://www.patreon.com/findmynextstep, or email justin@findmynextstep.org to make a one-time gift.

    Thank you to all of our Patrons! Patrons make it possible.
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    40 mins
  • Experimenting with Small Next Steps

    Experimenting with Small Next Steps
    Mar 20 2024

    Episode 09 was first recorded on March 14, 2024. It features a conversation with Jamie Wiechman and Justin Rossow. They will be discussion how the Come, Sacrificing Often card became a faith experiment on the heals of the Disciple Like You Mean It course. You can download a printable version of that prayer card and read more here. Choose Your Faith Adventure

    If you decide to read more from Jamie Wiechman, check out one of these blogs:

    • Come, Sacrificing Often
    • My Training in Slowness
    • Isometric Spirituality

    If choose to hear more from our friends at Breathe Life Ministries, you can pick from one of these podcasts:

    • Rest, Heal, Play (Come, Holy Spirit)
    • O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High! (Ponder Anew)
    • The Dignity of the Cross (When from Death I'm Free)


    You can also discover more about Breathe Life Ministries at their home page: https://breathelifetoday.com/

    If you would like to check out the Disciple Like You Mean It course, visit ⁠this page⁠. --------------------------------------------------

    The intro and outro music comes from Peter Prochnow's rendition of the hymn, "Awake My Soul and With the Sun" and is available from the Michigan District of the LCMS at www.thehymnalproject.com. Used by permission.

    This episode of the Next Step Podcast was supported in part by the generosity of Next Step Patrons. Please consider becoming a Next Step Patron before the end 2023. To see different options for support, including monthly and annual options, visit https://www.patreon.com/findmynextstep, or email justin@findmynextstep.org to make a one-time gift.

    Thank you to all of our Patrons! Patrons make it possible.
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    41 mins
  • Expanding Your Discipleship Culture

    Expanding Your Discipleship Culture
    Feb 1 2024
    Episode 07 was first recorded on Tuesday, January 30, 2024. It features a conversation with two lay leaders from Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church in Howell, Michigan. The conversation is a kind of guided brainstorming session designed to help Katie and Bob expand the discipleship culture at their church. They have both been through the Disciple Like You Mean It online training, and now their pastor has asked them to help spread the impact of the tools and attitudes in that course. After a brief introduction and opening prayer by Next Step Press founder Justin Rossow, you will get a little background on both of these lay leaders, including their impression of the course. Three words seem to rise to the top in this conversation: Prayerful, Invitational, and Intentional. Those three keys to expanding your discipleship culture help these leaders imagine some ways to create new relationships as well as engage existing groups with insights from the Next Step discipleship process. Along the way, you will hear Katie say that she is using Visual Faith® Ministry tools and taking a group to a Visual Faith® Ministry event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She'll be using that common experience to springboard more engagement with ongoing discipleship and grow toward a DLYMI Triad. If you are in the area on March 16, 2024 from 9am-1pm, you can sign up for that VFM event here: www.tinyurl.com/visualprayer101. Then keep your eyes open for Katie and Justin, and make sure you say hi! CHOOSE YOUR FAITH ADVENTURE If you choose to explore Visual Faith® Ministry, download one of their many free resource from their webpage: https://www.visualfaithmin.org/. Justin, Bob, and Katie all make reference at different times to important concepts from the Disciple Like You Mean It training. Justin mentions Resonance from the acronym SMART. If you decide to take a SMART next step, turn to this blog. Katie talks about Non-Judgmental Noticing at one point. If that sparks your interest and you choose to find out more, choose from find several resources related to that concept on the Next Step Community blog: Non-Judgmental Noticing, a podcast with Jamie Wiechman from Breathe Life Ministries.How Are You Today? a blog about noticing emotions with a teenager.Noticing Yourself With God, a blog from Steve Wiechman.Noticing Your Emotions, With Jesus, a tool from the DLYMI course.Noticing Your Non-Judgmental Noticing, a podcast with Pastor Sam Fink (Katie and Bob's pastor at Heart of the Shepherd). Finally, all three talk about the importance of a GPS attitude instead of GPA approach to discipleship. If your next step relates to your GPS, you have options: Orientation vs Performance: GPS or GPA?Mary and Martha, GPA or GPS?My Next Step, Volume 1 (the one with the compass on the cover) The intro and outro music comes from Peter Prochnow's rendition of the hymn, "Awake My Soul and With the Sun" and is available from the Michigan District of the LCMS at www.thehymnalproject.com. Used by permission. If you choose to explore taking a Triad through the Disciple Like You Mean It course, visit this page. This episode of the Next Step Podcast was supported in part by the generosity of Next Step Patrons. Please consider becoming a Next Step Patron to help keep these resources coming! To see different options for support, including monthly and annual options, visit https://www.patreon.com/findmynextstep, or email justin@findmynextstep.org to make a one-time gift. Thank you to all of our Patrons! Patrons make it possible.
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    43 mins
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