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Discipleship Gospel Spiritual Growth Uncategorized

March 23, 2021

Hope in the Grave

There is always hope in darkness, because there was Hope lying in a grave for three days—He who now is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. Can you imagine what it must have been like…

by Cassie Langford 0

Discipleship Missionary Spiritual Growth Uncategorized Women

February 9, 2021

His Endless Love

A few years ago a lady who had lost her first husband to brain cancer came to me before she married her second husband concerned for her daughters. She was worried that they would doubt her love for them…

Church Current Events Leadership Uncategorized

December 7, 2020

Leading Churches Through This COVID Season

We reached out to a few churches from different cities and contexts and asked them to share how they are navigating COVID. We hope their responses encourage you with the unique challenges and opportunities we are all encountering…

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…

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…

by Ryan LaTour 0

Church Gospel Identity Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Missional Community Resources Uncategorized

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…

by Ryan LaTour 0

Church Gospel Identity Leadership Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

by Ryan LaTour 0

Church Foundations Gospel Identity Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

by Sunee Hillyer 0

Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

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.

by David Achata 0

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

by Hannah Morr 0

Family Gospel Kids Mission Missionary Uncategorized Women

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…

Saturate Podcast Uncategorized

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.

Gospel Missional Community Uncategorized

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…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

Church Leadership Uncategorized

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…

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…

by David Achata 0

Bible & Theology Discipleship Faith and Work Holy Spirit Identity Leadership Prayer Spiritual Growth Uncategorized

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…

by Tim Parlier 0

Apologetics Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Mission Missionary Uncategorized

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,…

by Todd Engstrom 0

Bible & Theology Church Coaching Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth Transitioning Uncategorized

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…

by Amy Lathrop 0

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…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Community Discipleship Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Kids Leadership Mission Missional Community Uncategorized Youth & Teens

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…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0