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April 28, 2020

Living on Mission in Lockdown

One of my favorite things in my book A Field Guide for Everyday Mission is the “101 ways” we suggested, to help followers of Jesus engage not-yet-believing neighbors, co-workers and friends in winsome, tangible, and meaningful ways. In a…

by Duke Revard 0

Church Current Events Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Pastoring

April 27, 2020

Care in the Family of God

This post is part of a series on Caring and Sharing Hope during COVID-19. If you haven't yet, read the first post in the series here. What Might a “Care Call” Look Like? Prepare Well and Ask Good Questions…

by Duke Revard 0

Church Current Events Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Pastoring

April 23, 2020

How to Care & Share Hope

What if the thing most remembered about 2020 was the way that the church responded? What if our churches became more famous for love, both internally and externally? After all, love — for God, for one another, for neighbors,…

by Michael Lum 0

Current Events Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Life Issues

April 21, 2020

Rejoice Always

In a recent conversation with a sister in Christ, she told me, “Pastor, I find it incredibly hard to be happy in days like this. When I can’t know what God is doing and why he is doing it, I…

by Ben Connelly 0

Church Current Events Gospel Leadership Pastoring Spiritual Growth Uncategorized

April 7, 2020

Leading Well

It was not a question I ever expected; it was not a question I ever thought I’d have to answer. A half-week into the COVID-19 lockdown, I ended an email to a pastor with the phrase, “Let me know…

Current Events Discipleship Foundations Gospel Kids Spiritual Growth

April 3, 2020

Discipling Our Kids at Home

When I moved to Los Angeles, I never thought I would have over two months of parenting that looked so much like Swiss Family Robinson and Little House on the Prairie. But, here we are. We’re working at home, eating…

Current Events Discipleship Gospel Leadership Life Issues Spiritual Growth

March 24, 2020

The Power of Waiting and Remembering

There’s a time to create content and build a resource. And then there’s a time to stop, wait, feel, listen, and pray. As a team at Saturate, we’ve felt the need to go slow and not rush. We believe we…

by Carey Crawford 0

Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Missional Community

February 27, 2020

Filling, Lengthening, and Multiplying our Tables

Check out part one to this blog post here. Our practice of Family Tables is certainly nothing new, but simply an expression of missional community for our context. Shared meals have been an important part of missional communities for…

by Carey Crawford 0

Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Foundations Gospel Leadership Missional Community

February 13, 2020

Family Tables

The Backstory When we introduced missional communities to our church just over a year ago, the concept was new, not only to the members, but also to some of the leadership. People thought they had a basic idea of…

Community Discipleship Gospel Missionary

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…

Bible & Theology Community Discipleship Foundations Gospel Missional 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!…

by Daniel Maqueda 0

Church Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Missional Community

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…

by Atanasio Segovia 0

Church Church Planting Domains of Society Gospel Pastoring

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,…

Arts & Culture Discipleship Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Gospel Saturate Podcast

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…

by Brad Watson 2

Discipleship Domains of Society Faith and Work Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast

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,…

by Ben Fort 0

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…

by Ben Fort 0

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…

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…

by Madalaine Horky 0

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…

by Tim Parlier 0

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…

Church Current Events Domains of Society Gospel Identity Missionary

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…

Church Current Events Domains of Society Gospel Identity Pastoring

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…

by Amy Lathrop 0

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…

Community Current Events Discipleship Domains of Society Gospel Gospel Shepherding Pastoring

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…

Church Current Events Discipleship Gospel Identity Missional Community

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…

Church Current Events Domains of Society Foundations Gospel Identity

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…

Current Events Domains of Society Gospel Missional Community

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…

Church Community Identity Missional Community Pastoring

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…

Community Discipleship Mission Missional Community Pastoring

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…

Community Discipleship Gospel Mission Missional Community

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…

Community Discipleship Gospel Mission

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…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

Church Community Mission Missionary Servant Youth & 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…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

Church Community Domains of Society Mission Servant Youth & Teens

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…

Community Gospel Identity Missional Community Resources

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…

by Marvin Olasky 0