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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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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 19, 2018

Emmanuel

Christmas is one of those strange times you sing a lot. It’s also a time when you oddly sing words in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and all sorts of languages. A favorite, I think, is the song “O Come,…

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…

by Brad Watson 0

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 18, 2018

Good Times Have Come, So Go Tell it On the Mountain

We tell the stories that matter most to us and our world. The stories you tell at parties, over dinner, and even in small talk have two overlapping qualities: you like them and you think the people around…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 17, 2018

Joy to the World, Good News!

I’ll never forget where I was when I first heard the news: LeBron James was coming to Los Angeles to play for our Lakers. King James was going to come! After years of trying to read between…

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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,…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 15, 2018

When the Soul Feels Its Worth

This past week, each reflection has focused on the theme of Peace and the Kingdom Jesus’ birth brings. It all seems so wonderful. The birth of the saving king, so glorious. The highest glory has come to us!…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 14, 2018

The End of War — Healing of the Nations

My favorite Christmas movie is Joyeux Noel. It tells the true story of a Christmas Day Truce in the trenches of World War I between the Germans, French, and British. The cost of World War I was a…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 13, 2018

We’ve Been Brought Near

We all have a complicated relationship with the Church. It’s a ruckus communion of saints. It’s for many a place of quarreling, a place of scheming, a place of power, and even for those same people, a place…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 12, 2018

The Kingdom that Divides

Growing up, my family spent each night of the holidays sitting beneath the glow of the Christmas tree and watching Christmas movies. We watched the original Miracle on 34th Street and the “new” Miracle on 34th Street (which…

by Brad Watson 0

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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…

by Brad Watson 0

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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 Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 6, 2018

Responding to the King’s Arrival

Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!” Behold,…

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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…

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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…

by Brad Watson 0

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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…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 3, 2018

The True Story of Hope

On a December morning in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, children and teachers were likely gearing up for a day filled with gluing cotton balls onto Santa beards when a 20-year-old man came into the school shooting and killing…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 2, 2018

Why Did Jesus Have to Come?

Christmas is a magical time for kids as they see the glow of lights, trees in the home, and packages accumulate. It’s also the season when we get to regularly articulate the meaning and nature of God coming…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Saturate Podcast Spiritual Growth

December 1, 2018

Preparing for Advent

Christmas Tree Hunting In the early days of Advent, we drive out to the Beck family farm to cut down a Christmas tree. Our only rule is it must be shorter than “Mom” so it will fit in…

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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…

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Bible & Theology Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring Spiritual Growth

October 25, 2018

Words Lived Out

I broke down last night. Hunched over our kitchen sink and weeping, my wife told me it wasn’t silly to grieve a person I never personally met. On Monday one of my heroes had died. As a sixteen-year-old preacher,…

by Jonathan Dodson 0

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Bible & Theology Discipleship Gospel Holy Spirit Spiritual Growth

October 9, 2018

Sizing Up the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit. Three words couldn’t divide the church more. I suppose “I hate you” is up there, but that’s more of a division between people rather than churches. Entire swaths of Christianity have divided over the third person…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Gospel Shepherding Holy Spirit Spiritual Growth

September 25, 2018

All of Life is Worship

We were made to worship. We were made to adore, to long for, to delight in, to desire. We were made to have the deepest longings of our hearts met by someone or something outside of ourselves. Always Worshiping…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Gospel Shepherding Missional Community Resources Spiritual Growth

August 21, 2018

Discipling Each Other

The most meaningful relationships in life are symbiotic: the people involved mutually benefit, encourage, and foster growth in each other. Growing as a disciple requires this kind of relationship by the power of the Holy Spirit and through the…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Missionary Spiritual Growth

August 2, 2018

Sabbath Action

“Man was created on the sixth day right before God rested, so man was created as it were to enjoy the weekend with God.” – Michael Wilcock Summer Camp and the Already but Not Yet Reality During most of…

by David Achata 2

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Discipleship Gospel Identity Leadership Mission Pastoring Spiritual Growth

July 5, 2018

God’s Calling, Man’s Driving

If you’re a leader reading this, be encouraged: your mission is to teach people to be content with waiting on the Lord. “For consider your calling, brothers; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Spiritual Growth

June 21, 2018

Change is God’s Work

We Can't Change on our Own Realizing that change is something that has to take place in the heart is just the first step in the battle for change. Once we understand this, it moves the battle for change…

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Gospel Gospel Shepherding Holy Spirit Life Issues Spiritual Growth

April 26, 2018

Resting In Jesus

He wants me to rest in Him and invites me into what He is doing for His glory. That doesn’t sound like a burden that sounds like freedom. I remember it well. I was sitting in my dining room…

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Gospel Shepherding Holy Spirit Life Issues Pastoring Spiritual Growth

April 17, 2018

This is War!

Under Attack You’re dealing with health issues again. Someone you thought was committed to doing life with you has disappeared. Someone else is saying things about you that aren’t true. A magnetic individual in your community seems to be…

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Spiritual Growth

April 3, 2018

Not Just Broing Out

This is a guest post by Casey Samulski. Casey is a husband, writer, and entrepreneur who loves Jesus and making disciples of Jesus. He has led and coached missional communities in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles…

by David Achata 1

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Mission Spiritual Growth

November 16, 2017

The Call & The Power

Apart from God’s miraculous intervention, my teaching will only go so far. Our methods alone are dead ends. We’ve got to pray for this power. “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine…

by Rich McCaskill 0

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Discipleship Foundations Mission Prayer

November 14, 2017

The Beauty of Rest

Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and the tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in…

by Rachel Swartley 0

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Gospel Holy Spirit Spiritual Growth

November 2, 2017

The Root of Insecurity

The Gospel brings hope of unconditional love that has no interest in dwelling on our faults and transgressions because of Jesus’ ability to absorb our punishment. Imagine a world with people who cared for one another deeply. A culture…

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Spiritual Growth Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Saturate

The True Light

Emmanuel

From Jaded to Jeweled

Good Times Have Come, So Go Tell it On the Mountain

Joy to the World, Good News!

The Meaning of Joy

When the Soul Feels Its Worth

The End of War — Healing of the Nations

We’ve Been Brought Near

The Kingdom that Divides

How the Long Expected Jesus Came

A Child and Big Government

Peace on Earth

Mourning with Hope in a Tragic World

A Humble Baby?

Responding to the King’s Arrival

Life from a Stump

We Need “Good Shepherd” Theology

Jesus Came into the World

The True Story of Hope

Why Did Jesus Have to Come?

Preparing for Advent

What to Expect from People in DNA Groups

Words Lived Out

Sizing Up the Holy Spirit

All of Life is Worship

Discipling Each Other

Sabbath Action

God’s Calling, Man’s Driving

Change is God’s Work

Resting In Jesus

This is War!

Not Just Broing Out

The Call & The Power

The Beauty of Rest

The Root of Insecurity

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