A show here in Barcelona, where we contribute our home made lunch to feed the Hordes. Hopefully we can encourage you and bring more of a feeling of connection to what God is doing in this amazing city.
FISH BAG PODCAST
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A show here in Barcelona, where we contribute our home made lunch to feed the Hordes. Hopefully we can encourage you and bring more of a feeling of connection to what God is doing in this amazing city.
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March 25, 2026
Re.Birth : A program to peel back the tradition and find the kingdom.
<p>Apply now for Rebirth in Barcelona: If you’re wrestling with church culture, deconstruction, or feeling stuck in your faith, stop scrolling and take your next step with Jesus—apply now for the Rebirth intensive at this link: https://www.cognitoforms.com/YWAMBARCELONA1/REBIRTHAPPLICATIONFORM</p><p><strong>Episode Overview – Rebirth, Deconstruction, and Finding Jesus Again</strong><br>Fish Baggers, this powerful episode dives into “Rebirth,” a 10–day intensive in Barcelona created to help believers who grew up in church but are now disillusioned, burnt out, or confused about what actually comes from Jesus and what’s just Christian culture. Derek shares his own journey of laying everything on the table—traditions, assumptions, and theological tension—and starting again from the life and words of Jesus, not from inherited systems or pressure to perform. If you’ve felt that deconstruction is pulling you toward walking away, this conversation invites you into reconstruction instead: rediscovering Jesus as truly good, beautiful, and worth following.</p><p><strong>What Rebirth Is All About</strong><br>Rebirth was born out of Derek’s struggle to untangle Jesus from church tradition—asking what is actually commanded by Jesus versus what is just cultural expectation. He talks about moving from an anxious, performance-based faith—“don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t dance”—into a relational obedience rooted in trust, love, and genuine freedom. Through this lens, obedience stops being oppressive rule-keeping and becomes a life-giving response to a Jesus who wants our good and the good of others.</p><p><strong>Safe Space for Honest Questions</strong><br>This isn’t a lecture hall; Rebirth is a small, discussion-based environment where there are no spectators and everyone participates. You’ll be in a room with people from different nations, backgrounds, and traditions, all processing their questions, church hurt, disappointment, and doubts with zero judgment. Stepping away from your normal church or family setting into a neutral space in Barcelona can create room to ask questions you’ve never felt safe to voice. Because if Jesus and Scripture are true, they can withstand hard questions—and Rebirth is designed to help you ask them honestly.</p><p><strong>Tools, Not Quick Fixes</strong><br>Rebirth runs May 29th–June 7th, 2026: ten packed days, two sessions most days, mixing teaching, conversation, and time to explore Barcelona. Derek is clear this isn’t a one–shot “everything is fixed” promise, but a launchpad: new tools, reframed questions, and a more solid foundation to rebuild your faith on Jesus himself. Past participants have left with renewed hope that life with Jesus is still possible, fresh ways to read the Bible, and a path forward after deep disappointment with church culture.</p><p><strong>Why Barcelona + A Story of Breakthrough</strong><br>On top of the spiritual journey, you’ll be immersed in the beauty and vibrancy of Barcelona, making new friends and engaging with the unique spiritual landscape of the city. Derek shares the story of a young woman, a pastor’s kid from Europe, who came in exhausted and wounded by church culture, and left with opened eyes, new understanding, and real hope to keep following Jesus. This is the heart of Rebirth: not tearing everything down, but letting Jesus redeem, restore, and rebuild what’s broken.</p><p><strong>Your Next Step – Call to Action</strong><br>If something in this episode hits that deep place in you—the part that still wants Jesus to be true even if church has hurt you—don’t stay stuck. Set aside ten days, invest in your heart, and join Derek and the YWAM Barcelona team to walk through deconstruction into real, life-giving reconstruction with Jesus. Apply now at: <strong>https://www.cognitoforms.com/YWAMBARCELONA1/REBIRTHAPPLICATIONFORM</strong></p><p>Contact JP at: jpsanders@ywambarcelona.org<br>Want to be on the show? Schedule a time here: https://calendar.app.google/YQ9VXVs5kMGm9Y2d6<br>Outro song by James Tyson. IG: https://www.instagram.com/james.mtyson/<br>YWAM BCN web: https://www.ywambarcelona.org</p>
March 2, 2026
Intern Annie
<p>Time to meet Intern Annie and dive into one of the most delightfully unfiltered, coffee-shop‑style episodes of the Fishbag Podcast yet. From Minnesota lakes and busted knees to conspiracy theories and AI, this one has big youth‑group‑couch energy—with a surprising amount of depth under all the laughter.</p><p><strong>Meet Intern Annie (and Her Wobbly Knees)</strong><br>JP sits down with Annie, the newest intern at YWAM Barcelona, to talk life, calling, and why she randomly bought a plane ticket to the other side of the world at 18 just to serve kids and Jesus. You’ll hear about her small-town Minnesota roots, her love-hate relationship with hockey culture, and why cross‑country skiing totally owns her heart—even though her knees like to dislocate at the worst possible moments.</p><p><strong>Guns, Popeyes, and Small-Town America</strong><br>The conversation spirals (in the best way) into classic American territory: Walmarts, Targets, Starbucks counts, terrible local Popeyes, and whether there should be guns under every bed. Between jokes about never having shot a gun and longing for Chick‑fil‑A instead of disappointing fried chicken, Annie and JP paint a vivid, funny snapshot of Midwest life that expats and Americans alike will recognize instantly.</p><p><strong>Called to Teach the Next Generation</strong><br>Underneath the jokes is a serious sense of calling: Annie wants to teach kids and shape “the future of America” as an elementary teacher. She shares how serving in kids’ ministry at church awakened her passion for discipling children, helping them become change‑makers, and maybe blending that with Bible teaching—whether in public school, Christian school, or somewhere in between. Here in Barcelona, she’s testing that out by designing kids’ events around themes like friendship and how to make friends in a big, often isolating city.</p><p><strong>Friendship, Crafts, and Adult Loneliness</strong><br>The two talk about how making friends gets harder as adults and joke about running a “How to Make Friends” course for grown‑ups—with crafts, games, and all the kid stuff we secretly still want. Annie unpacks her heart for using creativity, play, and quality time to help kids (and maybe adults) become more like Jesus in very practical, relational ways.</p><p><strong>AI, Creativity, and Choosing Resistance Over Shortcuts</strong><br>In a surprisingly timely turn, JP folds Annie into his ongoing AI research for his dissertation. Annie admits she used to lean on AI a lot in high school, but she’s now intentionally pulling back because it was making her less creative and too dependent on something that always agrees with her. They explore procrastination, productivity pressure, and why we’re so tempted to offload hard work to AI instead of letting resistance grow our brains, our skills, and our character. From recipes to homework to event planning, they wrestle with how to keep humans—and the Holy Spirit—at the center of the creative process.</p><p><strong>Stuff, Novelty, and a Better Way to Live</strong><br>The episode closes with a thoughtful riff on consumerism: cheap stuff that breaks, planned obsolescence, and our addiction to “new.” JP and Annie wonder aloud whether a less cluttered, less hyper‑consuming life might actually make us more grateful, more present, and more creative with what we already have—both in our homes and in our hearts.</p><p>If you love YWAM stories, creative discipleship, gentle roasting of American culture, and real talk about AI and formation, this episode is your jam. And if you’re dreaming about doing an internship or DTS with YWAM Barcelona, Annie’s story might be the nudge you’ve been waiting for.</p><p>Contact JP at: <a href="mailto:jpsanders@ywambarcelona.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jpsanders@ywambarcelona.org</a><br>Want to be on the show? Schedule a time here: <a href="https://calendar.app.google/YQ9VXVs5kMGm9Y2d6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://calendar.app.google/YQ9VXVs5kMGm9Y2d6</a><br>Intro Song by Isaac Vasquez – link tree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/isaacxvasquez" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://linktr.ee/isaacxvasquez</a><br>Outro song by James Tyson – IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/james.mtyson/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.instagram.com/james.mtyson/</a><br>YWAM BCN web: <a href="https://www.ywambarcelona.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ywambarcelona.org</a></p>
February 20, 2026
Creating with AI and Jesus, what could go wrong? With James Tyson
<p>AI, creativity, and faith collide in this experimental Fishbag episode as JP shares a raw WhatsApp voice-note conversation with his good friend James, a musician, artist and writer who is currently in India wrestling with how to use AI without losing his soul—or his songwriting. Drawing from his research on AI and creativity, JP unpacks why <strong>how</strong> we create matters just as much as <strong>what</strong> we make, especially for Fish Baggers raising kids in an AI-saturated world.</p><p><strong>What’s Inside This Episode</strong></p><p>JP kicks things off by framing the big question James brings: if AI-generated music deeply moves people, does it really matter how it was made—or if a human actually “did the work”? Along the way, they explore who the real stakeholders are in creative process: the listener, the artist, and God.</p><p>You’ll hear about a recent MIT study, “Your Brain on ChatGPT,” that scanned students’ brains while they wrote essays with and without AI help, revealing that starting with AI dramatically lowers deep brain engagement, long-term memory, and sense of ownership over the work. Students who used AI from the beginning couldn’t recall their own writing and felt detached from it, even when the essays scored well. This opens up a crucial discipleship and parenting question: are we quietly training a generation to outsource their thinking—and their creativity?</p><p>JP and James then zoom out to what researchers are seeing at scale: when lots of people rely on AI to create, the overall diversity of what gets made shrinks, even if each individual output looks clever and polished. Because generative models lean on probability and “most likely next steps,” they tend to push groups of creators toward similar patterns, vibes, and structures over time. That has big implications for art, worship, and culture if followers of Jesus just ride the AI wave uncritically.</p><p>But this isn’t an anti‑AI rant. JP highlights research showing that when humans lead the process—creating first from their own minds and then inviting AI in as a late-stage helper—creativity and confidence actually increase. In other words, AI works best as an augmentation tool, not a starting point: you wrestle with the idea, then let AI help you refine, not replace, your creative labor.</p><p>That’s exactly where James’ story comes in. From the streets of India, background noise and all, he shares how he’s been using AI tools like Suno with his own guitar parts, Psalm 139 lyrics, and vocal experiments—not as a magic wand, but as a strange new “mentor” that stretches his phrasing, chord choices, and vocal range. He describes the uneasy feeling of letting AI do everything versus the joy of co-creating with God, guitar in hand, like he did during his DTS days in YWAM Barcelona. The episode lands in a deeply pastoral place: compartmentalizing AI, protecting holy creative spaces with God, and refusing to trade process for product.</p><p>Perfect for parents, musicians, worship leaders, creatives, and any Fish Bagger wondering how to walk wisely with AI without surrendering their God-given creative muscle.</p><p>Contact JP at: <a href="mailto:jpsanders@ywambarcelona.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jpsanders@ywambarcelona.org</a><br>Want to be on the show? Schedule a time here: <a href="https://calendar.app.google/YQ9VXVs5kMGm9Y2d6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://calendar.app.google/YQ9VXVs5kMGm9Y2d6</a><br>Intro Song by Isaac Vasquez – Linktree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/isaacxvasquez" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://linktr.ee/isaacxvasquez</a><br>Outro song by James Tyson – IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/james.mtyson/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.instagram.com/james.mtyson/</a><br>YWAM Barcelona web: <a href="https://www.ywambarcelona.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.ywambarcelona.org</a></p>
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