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November 5, 2019

The Gospel Isn’t a Cul-De-Sac

  The cul-de-sac was a phenomenal invention for the suburbs. It created a safe and peaceful place for families to raise children. No one passed through. In fact, the only time strangers can appear is after a wrong turn and…

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Bible & TheologyCommunityDiscipleshipFoundationsGospelMissional Community

August 15, 2019

A Whole New People and a Whole New World

    This blog post is an excerpt from the introduction of our newest resource, an Everyday Discipleship Study on the book of Ephesians. This study launches Monday, August 19th but you can download the first chapter for free now!…

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July 30, 2019

Loneliness is Poverty

  Early Death In 2010, Holt-Lunstad published a study on social relationships and mortality rates. The team’s research verified “that people with fewer social relationships die earlier on average than those with more social relationships.” They measured the influence of…

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July 18, 2019

The Gospel Must Happen to Me

  “Mexicano, que tu hace aquí”, the boy yelled from twenty feet away. The question hit me like a train. For the first time in three decades the question was not framed in a way that brought me shame, guilt,…

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July 11, 2019

Moving Forward On Mission

  Every Community and Mission is Unique The cookie cutter doesn’t exist. The best place to start is to listen to the people you are sent to and reflect on how their lives might intersect the gospel and community. Understand…

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June 12, 2019

Episode 82: Everyday Disciples in LA: Entertainment Industry

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Hope, Austin, and Jared about living out the gospel in everyday life within the entertainment industry. They share insights on the power of the gospel, community, and mission as…

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June 5, 2019

Episode 81: Everyday Disciples in LA: Customer Service

In the first installment of a new series on the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with three disciples at Soma in Los Angeles about living life with gospel intentionality as they work in customer service jobs. They discuss the challenges,…

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by Georgia Lee 0

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Everyday RhythmsFamilyGospelMissional CommunityMissionaryServantSocial Justice

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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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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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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by Charlie Meo 0

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Everyday RhythmsGospelIdentityMissionMissional CommunityPastoringSocial Justice

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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CommunityEveryday RhythmsGospelMissional 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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by Madalaine Horky 0

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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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CommunityDiscipleshipGospelLeadershipMissionMissionaryYouth & 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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by Charlie Meo 0

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ChurchCurrent EventsDomains of SocietyGospelIdentityMissionarySocial Justice

November 13, 2018

Reconstructing Our True Identity

  This is part two of this two-part series on deconstructed Christianity. If you haven’t read the first piece on the roots and ramifications of deconstruction, go back and do that first. The True Story Could it be that the…

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by Charlie Meo 0

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November 8, 2018

Hope for Deconstructed Christians

  Our hope is that through embracing the Bible as the True Story, followers of Jesus are given three new identities that reconstruct a flourishing faith. In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed pipe bombs sent to prominent…

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by Amy Lathrop 0

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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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by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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CommunityEveryday RhythmsGospelMissionMissional CommunityMissionary

October 16, 2018

On Mission this Halloween

  October 31st offers a great opportunity for many to engage in new relationships with those around us or to revisit some old relationships with new missional intentionality. Regardless of what you think of the holiday and it's roots, the…

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by Charlie Meo 0

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October 4, 2018

The Disciple and Trauma

  As Americans watch the unfolding drama of the Supreme Court hearings, you can almost hear the nation collectively sigh in frustration, sadness, and disbelief. In many ways, these hearings are a culmination of many cultural currents: partisan politics, Trump…

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September 19, 2018

Embodying a Justice-Saturated Gospel

         This is the last part of this three-part series on the intersection of social justice and the gospel. If you have missed the last two posts, please go back and read part one and part two to give context…

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by Charlie Meo 0

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September 18, 2018

How the True Story Reforms our Conversation

        In part two of this three-part series we will explore how the Story of the Bible reforms our previously mentioned cultural lenses and the American church’s historical context. True Story         N.T. Wright says, “The Whole Point of Christianity…

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by Charlie Meo 0

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September 17, 2018

The Intersection of Social Justice and the Gospel

  Introduction         As Americans in the southeast grapple with Hurricane Florence, our current news cycle is grappling with a hurricane of its own. Over the past several weeks, we have been hit with a flurry of stories that polarize…

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by Brad Watson 0

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May 15, 2018

The Cost of Feasting

  This post is guest written by Tim Cain. Tim is an elder over preaching, leading missional communities, training up and discipling leaders, counseling, and casting and protecting the vision of Kaleo Church in El Cajon, CA. Tim has a B.A. in pastoral studies…

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CommunityDiscipleshipMissionMissional CommunityPastoringSocial Justice

May 8, 2018

What God Has Done With Us

  This post is guest written by Tim Cain. Tim is an elder over preaching, leading missional communities, training up and discipling leaders, counseling, and casting and protecting the vision of Kaleo Church in El Cajon, CA. Tim has a B.A. in pastoral studies…

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CommunityDiscipleshipGospelMissionMissional CommunitySocial Justice

May 1, 2018

Sharing Your Table

  This post is guest written by Tim Cain. Tim is an elder over preaching, leading missional communities, training up and discipling leaders, counseling, and casting and protecting the vision of Kaleo Church in El Cajon, CA. Tim has a B.A. in pastoral studies…

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CommunityDiscipleshipGospelMissionSocial Justice

April 24, 2018

Serving the Poor Isn’t Enough

  This post is guest written by Tim Cain. Tim is an elder over preaching, leading missional communities, training up and discipling leaders, counseling, and casting and protecting the vision of Kaleo Church in El Cajon, CA. Tim has a B.A. in pastoral studies…

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by Nathan Cedarland 0

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ChurchCommunityMissionMissionaryServantSocial JusticeYouth & Teens

January 18, 2018

Proactive Mission to Vulnerable Kids and Families

  Our longing should be for vulnerable kids to encounter the love of the Father through our community, for parents and kids who have been separated to get a picture of the reconciliation that comes through Jesus, and for those…

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December 21, 2017

Foster Care and the Church

  A City-Wide Missional Focus As I’ve shared briefly in some previous articles, a small but growing number of pastors in our community have joined forces to tackle the issue of foster care and to unite around the mission of…

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CommunityGospelIdentityMissional CommunityResources

December 4, 2017

Holiday Guide in Action

  Guest post by Rusty Langford, pastor at Matthew's Table I believe even the process itself of thinking together of how to grow in our love for God, one another, and our neighbors is formative as people seeking to be…

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by Marvin Olasky 0

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Faith and WorkGospelMission

November 28, 2017

A Christian Journalist’s Vocation

When we talk about Gospel Saturation we are talking about the truths of Jesus changing everything - every person and every place. As followers of Jesus this means that our places of work are saturated with the gospel through Christ…

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by Donald Zimmerman 0

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Arts & CultureChurchGospelLeadershipPastoring

November 9, 2017

Recovering Liturgy

  This is part one in a five-part series on Gospel Liturgy, check out the full series here. “Liturgy" is a loaded word. For some, liturgy drums up memories of musky pews and lifeless chapels. Many consider liturgy a formulaic…

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Saturate PodcastSocial Justice

November 8, 2017

Episode 024: How Churches Can Work Together for Gospel Saturation

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Nathan Cedarland about how churches on the Washington coast are collaborating...

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Current EventsDomains of SocietyIdentityPrayerSocial Justice

October 24, 2017

Thy Will Be Done

  We pray for his resurrection hope in every moment of death. We pray for his great reconciliation in the face of every sin. We pray for his advancement and victory over every kind of evil. You don’t have to…

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by Nathan Cedarland 0

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ChurchCommunityGospelMissional Community

October 10, 2017

Taking Practical Steps Towards Unity

  You’ll want the prayer, support, and encouragement of your church family if you’re going to move in this direction, and in order for that to happen, they will need to see Church unity as an integral part of your…

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by Tim Parlier 0

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CommunityDiscipleshipGospelMission

September 5, 2017

Friendship Counts

  If we miss true friendship, we may be devolving into using people as projects for our own self interests. In the midst of our discussions or training about building, planting, and growing churches, we must guard against slipping into…

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September 4, 2017

Tools for The Upcoming Season

It's Labor Day, which means summer officially comes to a close, and we all gear up for the "normal" life that fall brings. The summer has been really busy for us, too, and we want to highlight a few of…

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