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Jim Belcher Interview Essential Leadership in the Deep Church

Kara Powell interviews pastor and author Jim Belcher about the content of his new book Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional and its implications for youth ministry.

A Fuller graduate, Jim is founding church planter and lead…

Playing Games with God

We’ve mentioned before that we had the opportunity to write a chapter for the new book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God

Enough: Scarcity vs Abundance during Advent

Can the good news of God’s abundance be trusted in the face of the story of scarcity?

Your God Is Too Small Charting Students’ Changing Views of God

I (Kara) love the title of the book Your God is Too Small by J.B. Phillips.  It reminds me of the desire I have to experience more of God’s bigness, both for myself and as well as for teenagers.  In…

“You suck, try harder.”

I used to work with Jim Belcher, the author of Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional. Since Jim and I, along with Mark Oestreicher…

3 Types of folks in the Emerging Church

In Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional, my friend and former co-worker, Jim Belcher, reminds us that the emerging church is a very big tent.

What the Emerging Church is Protesting

My friend and former colleague, Jim Belcher, sent me a copy of his new book, Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional. As described in the book…

Best quote on grace for my summer

I seem to be in this rut of reading Dallas Willard books on my vacation, and I read one last week while in Northern California.  It’s Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God, and I must say that I…

Youth Pastor Remix

Our friend and FYI author Kimberly Williams is one of those unconventional-thinker-types who likes to ask provocative questions about life and ministry. One of the questions that stirs her up these days is, “How is the role of a DJ like the role of a pastor?”

Pracademic

I was with some academicians and practitioners from around the U.S. this week and we were talking about how many of us are actually hybrids of the two roles – we are both researchers and youth workers.

A new term…

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