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Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast

May 1, 2019

Episode 076: Everyday Intentionality: Speak

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Kevin Platt of Missio Dei in Arizona on the BLESS rhythm: Speak. How do we intentionally declare good news in all of life? One of the fundamental realities is…

by Madalaine Horky 0

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Everyday Rhythms Foundations Gospel Mission Missional Community

April 25, 2019

Missional Community Life as Newlyweds

Living missionally in marriage causes us to remember that marriage was meant to express God’s character and grace in everyday life. As we prepared for marriage, Schuyler and I went through premarital counseling. Every meeting we had with the…

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Everyday Rhythms Saturate Podcast

April 24, 2019

Episode 075: Everyday Intentionality: Sabbath

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad and Mirela Watson talk about intentionally resting to enjoy God and the missional power of taking a day off with a focus on being with God and enjoying his world.

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Missional Community

April 16, 2019

Gospel Advance in Russia

It's super encouraging to read about how Christians are persevering in Russia under oppression - their boldness for the gospel and in prioritizing training for their missional communities in the face of violence and arrest. K.G. came to Soma…

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Everyday Rhythms Identity Saturate Podcast

April 10, 2019

Episode 074: Everyday Intentionality: Eat

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad and Mirela Watson talk about living everyday with intentional focus around meals. They share practical experience and their story of growing in this area as the front line of…

by Georgia Lee 0

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Everyday Rhythms Family Gospel Missional Community Missionary Servant

April 9, 2019

Doing Justice & Loving Mercy

Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have…

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Everyday Rhythms Saturate Podcast

April 3, 2019

Episode 073: Everyday Intentionality: Listen

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad and Mirela Watson talk about living with intentionality around the rhythm of listening. Why does listening to others make such a big difference? What does that look like? How can…

by Ben Fort 0

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Arts & Culture Community Current Events Everyday Rhythms Family Missionary Servant

April 2, 2019

What Do I Say?

“Hey, I listened to your podcast.” My fictional podcast had been released for weeks, and I could count on my fingers how many local friends had listened to it. This had been a sensitive source of tears, anger, and…

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Everyday Rhythms Saturate Podcast

March 27, 2019

Episode 072: Everyday Intentionality: Bless

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad and Mirela Watson talk about living life with gospel intentionality and why it is hard to think of others as a way of life and how to practically make blessing…

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Arts & Culture Community Everyday Rhythms Family Gospel Mission Missional Community

March 26, 2019

Accepting Ordinary Invitations

My wife Bethany and I are suckers for weird artsy puppet shows, so of course we were pumped to see that Fort Worth’s Amphibian Theater was producing just that with Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities. We grabbed a few friends and…

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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…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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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…

by Jordan Elder 0

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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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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? …

by Todd Engstrom 0

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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 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…

by Rachel Swartley 0

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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,…

by Cassie Langford 0

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Discipleship Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Missional Community Spiritual Growth

December 18, 2018

From Jaded to Jeweled

A guy who has hung around on the outskirts of our missional community sent a message asking for gas money this week. He said he missed us, but he has been going to another local church. My gut reaction…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 16, 2018

The Meaning of Joy

This Advent season has been a delight for me as we’ve walked through hope and peace. Now we turn our gaze toward joy. Our modern dictionaries define joy as a feeling of great happiness. It’s essentially pleasure plus,…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Church Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Missional Community

December 13, 2018

Better than Christmas

At heart, I’m a nostalgic sentimentalist. Growing up, It’s a Wonderful Life was not only my favorite Christmas movie but my favorite movie in general. Seriously. Almost any holiday song by Nat King Cole or Bing Crosby still fills…

by Tim Parlier 0

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Community Discipleship Gospel Leadership Mission Missionary Youth & Teens

December 11, 2018

Sent Where the Sin Is

As we at Saturate seek to commission disciple-makers of students (or anyone for that matter), we are confronted with circumstances and beliefs that seems to be stopping many from starting a new work or shifting their current ministry functions. There…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 11, 2018

How the Long Expected Jesus Came

How does the king come? We know He comes to change the world. We know He was born into our world. But how does Jesus come? What is the manner, the posture, the practice of Jesus’ incarnation? Returning to…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 10, 2018

A Child and Big Government

Wherever he reigns, His thriving and flourishing will be there, too! His law is peace. On May 19, 2018, Prince Harry of England married Meghan Markle in Windsor, England. The event was marked by the usual fanfare of such…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional Community Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 9, 2018

Peace on Earth

At the center of the angel’s announcement on the first Christmas night is this phrase found in Luke 2:14; it’s what Linus quotes at the end of A Charlie Brown Christmas: “Glory to God in the Highest, and peace…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 8, 2018

Mourning with Hope in a Tragic World

Christmas can be a time of lights, trees, parties, and decadent food, but it is definitely a season of grief and sadness. For some, it’s the grief of a lost childhood; the holidays remind us of all the…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 7, 2018

A Humble Baby?

“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” Therefore Israel…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 5, 2018

Life from a Stump

As I mentioned previously, our family always cuts down a Christmas tree. Each year, we leave a stump in the ground—something that was once growing is now dead. Stumps in Oregon are a part of life. In fact…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Discipleship Gospel Gospel Shepherding Identity Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Spiritual Growth

December 4, 2018

We Need “Good Shepherd” Theology

During our family meal last week, my five-year-old son Caleb perched attentively on the arm of the padded chair in which I sat––my Bible sprawled open on the coffee table in front of us. “What does it mean for…

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Discipleship Gospel Identity Mission Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 4, 2018

Jesus Came into the World

“Jesus came into Galilee” is offered as hope, the first hope. After centuries of silence, of struggle, and continued sin, the resignation of the people was, “No one is coming.” And yet, Jesus came into Galilee. “No-one-is-coming” is…

by Adam Breckenridge 0

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Gospel Shepherding Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth

November 29, 2018

What to Expect from People in DNA Groups

Expectations for being in a DNA Group Deep discipleship and transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. Rather, deep growth occurs in the soil of trusting relationships, where we can be known and loved, challenged and encouraged. This is the purpose…

by Liz.Pearse 0

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Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Foundations Gospel Identity Kids

November 22, 2018

Why Teach the Basics of the Gospel to Kids?

Why should we teach the basics of the gospel to our kids? For no other reason than we are in a battle: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against…

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Kids Missional Community Saturate Podcast

November 21, 2018

New Resource Now Available!

We have a new resource for kids, families, communities, and churches. I'm very excited about it. This children's resource began as a simple guide for missional communities at Bread&Wine, a Soma Church in Portland, Oregon in 2009, during my first year…

by James Grout 0

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Church Everyday Rhythms Foundations Mission Missional Community Youth & Teens

November 6, 2018

From One Generation to the Next

A Shaky Foundation Several years into my career as a youth pastor I had a crisis of purpose. I loved what I was doing and believed developing people and programs to support teenagers in their faith journey was one…

by Amy Lathrop 0

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Community Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Family Foundations Gospel Missional Community

November 1, 2018

Flourishing at the Table

Hospitality is a practice to be cultivated for God’s glory, our good and the flourishing of others. It’s an invitation to worship the One who invites us in, feeds us, listens to us, knows us, and provides for our…

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Missional Community Archives - Page 3 of 8 - Saturate

Episode 076: Everyday Intentionality: Speak

Missional Community Life as Newlyweds

Episode 075: Everyday Intentionality: Sabbath

Gospel Advance in Russia

Episode 074: Everyday Intentionality: Eat

Doing Justice & Loving Mercy

Episode 073: Everyday Intentionality: Listen

What Do I Say?

Episode 072: Everyday Intentionality: Bless

Accepting Ordinary Invitations

Episode 071: Intentional Rhythms of Life

Where the Immigrant, Asylum Seeker, and the Refugee Belong

Eating to Remember

Seasons of Mission

Elevating the Poor

Where Do I Go from Here?

Moving Toward Mission without Division

Why Missional Community Pilot Groups?

Enduring Trials Well

From Jaded to Jeweled

The Meaning of Joy

Better than Christmas

Sent Where the Sin Is

How the Long Expected Jesus Came

A Child and Big Government

Peace on Earth

Mourning with Hope in a Tragic World

A Humble Baby?

Life from a Stump

We Need “Good Shepherd” Theology

Jesus Came into the World

What to Expect from People in DNA Groups

Why Teach the Basics of the Gospel to Kids?

New Resource Now Available!

From One Generation to the Next

Flourishing at the Table

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