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…
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October 3, 2018
Episode 059: The Story of Transitioning Toward Missional Communities
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Ric Olson, who leads a church in Southern California that has been transitioning toward making disciples in the everyday stuff of life. Ric shares his church's story and how…
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August 21, 2018
What Really Counts?
When your focus is activity, you can get people to do good things. But what happens when they are done doing those things? Our experience has been that they’ll come back for instructions on what to do next. In this…
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August 14, 2018
Leading a Missional Community
The Hard Part My wife and I started our first missional community nine years ago. In retrospect, starting it was the easy part. Co-leading a community toward health over the long haul was the hard part. See, there’s a…
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August 9, 2018
He is Well Pleased with Us
Read Part One of this series here. I was sitting across the table from a sister in Christ, processing how life was going and how she was doing. During the course of our conversation, she shared a number of areas…
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July 31, 2018
Leaving an Enduring Legacy
A Sending Church By all accounts, the Church at Antioch described in the Bible was a “good" church, in a hard but rich mission field. The capital of Syria and a major Roman military and trade city by the A.D.…
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July 19, 2018
Transitioning Church Culture
Our journey towards transitioning our church culture from activity to identity began over six years ago. Another pastor and I, both on staff at the same church, were wrestling through some troubling trends we each saw as we sought…
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June 8, 2018
Saturate Summer Reading List
With Summer just around the corner our team wanted to share with you a few of our current favorite books when it comes to leadership, missional living, and everyday discipleship. If you're on the search for something to read…
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April 11, 2018
Episode 041: What DNA Groups Are And How to Lead Them
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Abe Mysenberg teaches on the what this sub-structure of Missional Community life is all about and how to lead DNA Groups.
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March 13, 2018
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
This is a guest post by Johnathan Schroeder. Johnathan is husband to Jill and the father of Judah (7) and Jessah (2). In 1995 God began a work in Johnathan, God showed Johnathan his useless pursuit of acceptance and…
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January 25, 2018
On Mission with Us
While I do want to fully treasure these years I have with my children, more than anything I want them to know without a doubt who I treasure and to come to treasure Him themselves. Last night, my eight-year-old…
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December 5, 2017
Episode 028: Celebrating God’s Grace in 2017
In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with Jeff Vanderstelt about 2017 and what God is doing in and through Saturate. They share stories, lessons learned, and prayers for the future.
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October 11, 2017
Episode 021: How Does the Gospel Motivate Us?
In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney discuss how the gospel motivates them for living a life in community and on mission. They also discuss ways to remind ourselves of the gospel daily and pitfalls…
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September 12, 2017
There are No Silver Bullets
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Im regarding his newly released book, No Silver Bullets. There may not be a silver bullet when it comes to discipleship, but this book is a must-read bullet to…
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May 16, 2017
Our Common Struggle to Believe the Gospel
We ask for polished leaders; God sends us messy people to disciple. The vision of a movement of people coming to greater faith in the gospel increasingly is what draws most of us into church leadership. The image of…
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May 4, 2017
Re-Ordering Your Loves
Restlessness is an indicator that something’s gotten out of whack. (Part three in the Everyday Sabbath Rest series from David Achata.) About 1,600 years ago, Augustine of Hippo prayed to God, saying, “You have made us for yourself, and our…
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February 28, 2017
Jesus in Normal, Everyday Conversations
Recently in our Saturate Online Community discussion forum a question was proposed:”Why don’t we talk about Jesus in our normal, everyday conversations?” I believe this is a layered challenge rooted with varying levels of fears, unbelief, lack of equipping,…
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November 2, 2016
Turning Group Culture With The Same Group of People
Post one in a short series by Todd Engstrom on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people. Read part two here. Community Group: The primary need of people in…
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September 30, 2016
Mentally Ill? Here’s What We Do . . .
Have questions about how to reach and shepherd those with mental health issues? Get your answers here. Question: We have a number of people in our church family who struggle with varying degrees of mental health issues. Recently a number…
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September 23, 2016
Kids? Here’s what we do . . .
Have questions about student ministry, serving the marginalized and protecting our kids, and logistics ... get your answers here. Last week's blog post about how to care for, disciple, and include kids during small group or missional community meetings…
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May 23, 2016
Being the Church Everyday
Church is not a building. Church is not an event. Church is the people of God filled with the presence of God set apart for the purposes of God in the world. For this reason, we must commit to…
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