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Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Saturate Podcast

March 21, 2019

Episode 071: Intentional Rhythms of Life

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson introduces our newest series on daily gospel rhythms. He talks about the importance of the truth of the gospel and our identity and then outlines how the gospel connects…

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Church Coaching Foundations Leadership Pastoring

March 21, 2019

Looking at Commitment from a Fresh Angle

When we commit to faithfully and lovingly live life with a particular community of believers, we are submitting to Christ and refusing to be dominated by our own personal whims and desires. What does it mean to belong to…

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Coaching Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Missionary Spiritual Growth

March 19, 2019

Power for Salvation

When people say they are saved, what do they mean? Think of this blog post as a vocabulary lesson. To become fluent in any language, you must develop your vocabulary. So let’s delve into the aspects of the gospel…

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Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Mission Missional Community Pastoring

March 14, 2019

Where the Immigrant, Asylum Seeker, and the Refugee Belong

Context The work of every pastor, no matter their context, is to faithfully shepherd God’s people, equipping them to be faithful to the biblical story. This article is the result of three pastors wrestling with the implications of the…

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Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Foundations Gospel Missional Community

March 12, 2019

Eating to Remember

Growing in Gospel Fluency If you and others around you are going to grow in gospel fluency, you need consistent immersion in a gospel-speaking community. This needs to be much more than a weekly gathering of the church where the…

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Church Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Resources Spiritual Growth

March 7, 2019

Observing Lent

I am often reminded by one of my friends that the ultimate prize for Christians is simply that we get Jesus. This is the ultimate aim and reward of Lent. The season of Lent is upon us. My first…

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Church Coaching Leadership Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

March 5, 2019

Proactive Leadership Development for Multiplication

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you get ahead of growth? How do you get new leaders ready in order to multiply your missional communities?…

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Community Everyday Rhythms Gospel Missional Community

February 28, 2019

Why Practice Lent as a Gospel Community?

What is Lent? Lent is a 40 day walk through daily and sometimes hourly reminders (because our tummies are hungry or our hearts are longing for something that we seemingly can’t live without) of the gospel. Lent, together with the celebration…

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Saturate Podcast

February 27, 2019

Episode 70: How the Gospel is the Center of Justice

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with poet and artist Preston Perry about his poem, New Woke Christian, and how the gospel is the solution to every challenge facing our society, including social injustice.

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Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Mission Missional Community

February 26, 2019

Seasons of Mission

As Missional Communities are planted, it is important to understand mission as an ancient work empowered by the Holy Spirit. God has been doing this “work” throughout redemptive history and calls each new generation to join Him. Mission can be…

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Church Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

February 21, 2019

What Surprised You in Your Transition

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. Coming from Soma Tacoma to Doxa, you had a lot of experience as a leader in a missional community. What was…

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Saturate Podcast

February 20, 2019

Episode 69: Making Disciples in a Narcissistic Society

In this live episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Adam Breckenridge about the challenges and opportunities we face as we make disciples in a self-focused culture. How do you challenge and encourage people toward Jesus when all…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Missional Community

February 19, 2019

Elevating the Poor

Becoming a friend to the poor requires a recognition of the ways that Jesus invited us to sit with Him and be elevated with Him, even though we could never deserve it. Throughout the story of the Bible, it…

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Mission Missional Community Resources

February 14, 2019

Where Do I Go from Here?

Your missional community walked through the Field Guide laying the foundation for being the church and you then made a covenant filled with practical next steps to grow up into faithfulness and obedience . . . but what’s next? …

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Church Coaching Foundations Leadership Pastoring Resources

February 12, 2019

The Orientation of a Strong Team

Read part one, two and three of this series. Once you have understood yourself and your leaders, assessed your church's seasonal needs, and have hired the right complimentary team members, you are ready to establish the new team in strength. Beginnings matter.…

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Saturate Podcast

February 7, 2019

Episode 68: A Conversation with Zack Eswine [Live]

In this live episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney talk with pastor, professor, and author Zack Eswine about how everyday leaders wrestle with leadership, ego, drive, and temptation to prove themselves.

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Church Coaching Gospel Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

February 7, 2019

Moving Toward Mission without Division

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you continue to move your church into the missional mindset when thirty percent of your church doesn’t want to…

by Duke Revard 0

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Coaching Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring

February 5, 2019

Finding the Right People

Read part one and two of this series. Once you have established the giftedness of the first leader or first few leaders, begin to assess what's missing. Do you have a strong teacher and shepherd, but no evangelist? Do…

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Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring Resources Transitioning

January 31, 2019

Get Started – Moving from Sunday to Everyday

Where do you begin when transitioning your church from Sunday to everyday? What small shifts are essential? Has anyone tried to move their churches from attractional or traditional models of discipleship toward missional communities? What are their stories? What did…

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Saturate Podcast

January 30, 2019

Episode 067: Transitioning Church and City Movement

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with leaders of a gospel movement in St. Louis, Missouri about how God builds his church, calls them toward everyday discipleship, and how churches work together to make small shifts toward the…

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Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 29, 2019

Building a Strong Team

Read part one of this series here. Leaders with a shared definition of team leadership are now prepared to build a strong team. Strong teams must account for the following. . . Self-awareness The strongest teams are not pre-existent. There…

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Saturate Podcast

January 24, 2019

Episode 066: Equipping Students for Making Disciples Today

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Adam Hillyer, the student director at Doxa Church in Seattle, Washington. They discuss student equipping, developing student leaders, and how you approach discipleship with students.

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

January 24, 2019

How Transitioning Impacts Sunday Morning

This is an excerpt from a Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. Question: As you transition towards missional groups, how has that affected what you do on Sunday morning? Ah, that's a great question.…

by Duke Revard 0

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Church Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 22, 2019

Redefining Team Leadership

Most established churches in North America speak of the value of team leadership, yet the outworking, from church to church, varies widely. In one church, “team leadership” is what Jim Collins has aptly termed “a-genius-with-a-thousand-helpers.” Here team leadership means…

by Rachel Swartley 0

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Discipleship Gospel Identity Life Issues Spiritual Growth

January 15, 2019

He is Always Calling Us Back

Read Part One Here. In no way is this meant to be a voice of condemnation, for I am the worst of us! However, I have personally come to a place of seeing my deep need for Jesus through…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Church Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

January 14, 2019

Why Missional Community Pilot Groups?

This is an excerpt from our newly released, Pilot Group Guide. This resource is available through the Missional Church Transition Starter. If you are a church of missional communities that is growing numerically through Sunday attendance or…

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Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Family Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Life Issues Spiritual Growth

January 10, 2019

Jesus is the True Friend

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:1, 24 In what…

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Saturate Podcast

January 9, 2019

Episode 065: The Relational Soul of Community

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson, Jared Pickney, and Adam Breckenridge talk with pastoral counselor and spiritual director, Richard Plass about the underlying and bedrock of missional community experience: relationships. While we could talk about techniques…

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Everyday Rhythms Gospel Gospel Shepherding Identity Life Issues Spiritual Growth

January 8, 2019

Enduring Trials Well

Measuring Suffering The aching desire for a spouse, the pain of losing a friend, the uncertainty of finding a job...these things all produce pain. Why is it, though, that we tend to compare our suffering to the next person,…

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Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Foundations Gospel Identity

January 3, 2019

Moving Forward by Looking Back

Are you planning to skim this article as fast as you can so you can move onto the next thing? If so, then you are fairly normal. We live in a fast-paced, instant gratification, FOMO culture. Rushing from one…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 25, 2018

Arrival of Enough

A few years ago, I ran a 5K on Thanksgiving with my whole family - three kids and two strollers. As we crossed the finish line the announcer said, “Welcome the stroller team!” The race was through the…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 24, 2018

Gospel Feast

Our Advent traditions have become numerous: we cut down our tree at the Beck family farm in the shadow of Mt. Hood; we make cinnamon rolls for our neighbors; we go ice skating at the mall; I take…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 23, 2018

Lasting Redeeming Love

On these last days of Advent, we turn our gaze to the love embodied in the crib. The incarnation carries into our world not just hope, peace, and joy, but Christ brings with Him a love of…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 22, 2018

Loved from the Beginning

One of my favorite Christmas memories came five years ago when Mirela told me she was pregnant with our second child. I was overjoyed, amazed, and humbled. When that daughter was born we named her “Maitê,” which means…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 21, 2018

Future Victory and Present Joy

We find ourselves between two arrivals - the first in Jesus in Bethlehem and the second as He comes again. We stand between resurrection and restoration. That’s precisely why this season is so important; it locates our hope,…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 20, 2018

The True Light

I haven’t found a suburban light show, a boat parade light show, or the lights in a fancy mall in Los Angeles to compare the Christmas lights of Lisbon, Portugal. My home city truly rises to the occasion…

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Episode 071: Intentional Rhythms of Life

Looking at Commitment from a Fresh Angle

Power for Salvation

Where the Immigrant, Asylum Seeker, and the Refugee Belong

Eating to Remember

Observing Lent

Proactive Leadership Development for Multiplication

Why Practice Lent as a Gospel Community?

Episode 70: How the Gospel is the Center of Justice

Seasons of Mission

What Surprised You in Your Transition

Episode 69: Making Disciples in a Narcissistic Society

Elevating the Poor

Where Do I Go from Here?

The Orientation of a Strong Team

Episode 68: A Conversation with Zack Eswine [Live]

Moving Toward Mission without Division

Finding the Right People

Get Started – Moving from Sunday to Everyday

Episode 067: Transitioning Church and City Movement

Building a Strong Team

Episode 066: Equipping Students for Making Disciples Today

How Transitioning Impacts Sunday Morning

Redefining Team Leadership

He is Always Calling Us Back

Why Missional Community Pilot Groups?

Jesus is the True Friend

Episode 065: The Relational Soul of Community

Enduring Trials Well

Moving Forward by Looking Back

Arrival of Enough

Gospel Feast

Lasting Redeeming Love

Loved from the Beginning

Future Victory and Present Joy

The True Light

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