Preparing Room: Twenty-five Reflections on the Arrival of Jesus for Everyday Life
Advent is a fresh invitation from God to prepare room in our hearts, minds, souls, and bodies to worship Him.
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Gospel Rooted
A gospel-drenched 10-week devotional that both stirs the reader's heart towards God and forms the reader in gospel identity and fluency.
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Enneagram Spiritual Formation Plan
Cultivating a gospel-fluent culture is the foundation for all missional community movement. So, how do you preach and teach gospel fluency?
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Our Common Struggle
Have you longed to see the Spirit send new churches, communities, and disciples to new areas of your cities and regions? Do you believe God called you to invest deeply in the leaders who will guide those discipleship environments or…
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Gospel Clarity: A Personal Study
You can watch videos, listen to sermons, and hear people in community talk about the gospel, but another important environment to learn the gospel is by yourself, personally grappling with the...
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Sabbath Rest
One of the biggest hinderances to living on mission is our complete exhaustion born out of a belief that we can do life apart from God. We falsely believe we can do the things of God apart from God...
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Wise with Money
For many of us, hearing the word "budget" sends chills down our spine; others are filled with glee at the prospect of organizing yet another thing. But our budgets are more than a dreaded or ...
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Practicing Rest and Solitude
While you might consider life as a disciple to be filled with activity, one of the more important invitations Jesus gives us is rest. Solitude and silence work together in disciplining our hearts...
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The Gospel Story: A Passover Meal Experience
What can you do to make your weekly meeting special during Holy Week? This is a guide to help communities share the Passover meal based on the story of Exodus, the Last Supper, and the death of Jesus.
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Lent: Living Through Dying
A Six-Week Community Guide Through Lent - The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are at the very heart of Christianity. The good news of the gospel The good news of the gospel is that God has acted...Read More »
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Annual Reflection
Surrounded by family gatherings and parties, the frantic holiday season typically drowns out the beginning of the new year. Wedged somewhere between layovers, hangovers, and leftovers....Read More »
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Advent Community Guide
We designed this devotional as a way to help you think about the themes of Advent and Christmas. There is one devotional reading for each week of Advent, and one for a Christmas Day....Read More »
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How to Start Living Our Gospel Identity
As individual disciples, we often get lost in the myriad of the ideas we could do and struggle to simply step into the ideas we can do....Read More »
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Leader’s Cheat Sheet
If you’re a leader of a community on mission, you might regularly scratch your head and wonder: "What am I supposed to be doing each week? What is my role in shaping this community?” Read More»
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Empowered by the Holy Spirit for Life on Mission
In Acts 1:8, Jesus tells his disciples they will receive power to be his witnesses. He promises them the Holy Spirit as the source...Read More »
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Questions to Help a Growing Disciple
We’ve created a discipleship culture in our churches that is built around having the right answers;... Read More »
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Gospel Shepherding – Speak the Truth in Love
How do I speak the truth in love? This is one of our primary tasks as a disciple who makes disciples..... Read More »
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Gospel Shepherding – Ask Good Questions
Questions help us understand our hearts. Your life has likely been altered by a powerful question that helped you unlock .... Read more »
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Gospel Shepherding – Listen for the Heart
90% of good discipleship and shepherding is listening. When you’re engaging a person’s story and life.... Read more »
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Listen and Obey
How do I bear fruit in keeping with repentance? The Spirit will always call us to live out our gospel identity.... Read more »
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Study and Ask
How do we read the Scriptures in community and with God at the center? In other words, how can we engage the Bible together.... Read more »
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Gospel Fluency | Speaking the Truths of Jesus
Even if they want to, many Christians find it hard to talk to others about Jesus. Is it possible this difficulty is because we’re trying to speak a language...Read more »
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Gospel Fluency Pocket Guide
Are you a leader wanting to give your community a kickstart into the concept and practice of gospel fluency...Read More »
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The “Meal” Exercise
This exercise might be a little different for some communities! Some of the most important conversations... Read more »
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Fruit to Root Exercise
Many of the attitudes, sins, and behaviors we want to change are symptoms of deeper areas of false belief.... Read more »
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True Story
This 6-week version was written by Soma pastors to help groups engage the big movements of God’s redemption and restoration.... Read more »
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Discovering our Areas of Unbelief
I’m an unbeliever and so are you. We have all quarantined areas of our lives from the gospel.... Read more »
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4 G’s
Our actions always flow from our beliefs. We are, at times, more aware of this connection and at other times less aware, but it is always true. What we believe affects the way we live. Read More
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Guía de DNA – Español
Esta guía está diseñada para ayudar a equipar a cada persona que se ha comprometido a un grupo de ADN...Read more »
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Discipleship Starter Guide: Discover. Nurture. Act
This guide is designed to help equip every person who is committed to a DNA group in the basics of gospel shepherding. It explains the three steps each DNA group should walk through each time they meet – Discover, Nurture,…
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Value of DNA for Men
What are DNA groups and why are they important for men? David Achata shares that a DNA group is a group of about three men... Read more »
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Value of DNA for Women
Why are DNA groups valuable for women, and what are some practical ways to overcome challenges in their ... Read more »
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Reconciling Relationships in an MC
Abe Meysenburg provides a biblical approach to resolving the conflict that will inevitably arise in a community. After briefly examining Jesus’ instruction...
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Leading an Effective DNA, Part 1
Abe Meysenburg provides an introduction to DNA groups including a definition; the reasons for participating in a DNA group; the goals of a DNA group; the makeup of a DNA group; and how to walk through the formation of a…
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What is Gospel Shepherding?
Abe Meysenburg provides an overview of the gospel shepherding approach including how it differs from a therapy mindset; how our paradigm of care and counseling needs to be flipped upside down;
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Conflict & Reconciliation in an MC
Jeff Vanderstelt from Soma provides a simple, biblically-rooted process for dealing with conflict.
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