Comments for Pastor John Van Sloten

Comment on Rublev, the Trinity, and a whole new way of listening to God through creation by JVS

JVS — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:21:26 +0000

And I suppose there are many other oblique and mysterious ways that God reveals himself. Directly, overheard, but also another kind of overheard. The kind where God is revealing something to another person directly and you overhear.

Comment on Seeing what bible writers saw by john van sloten

john van sloten — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:24:30 +0000

Or… maybe he just saw a bird nest near the altar. : )

Comment on God’s truth in Geophysics by Len

Len — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:26:56 +0000

This is deep Theology, fascinating science, effective liturgy, profound spirituality, and effective evangelism all rolled up into one. Good word, John. And I’m looking forward to the book.

Comment on God’s truth in Geophysics by Karen Anderson

Karen Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:04:34 +0000

COOL!

Comment on God’s truth in Geophysics by Jacqui

Jacqui — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:48:42 +0000

This is just beautiful. And exciting. As all encounters with Christ probably end up being.

Comment on 10 simple steps to preaching a sermon on Epigenetics by JVS

JVS — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:02:54 +0000

David. So you’ve listened to the sermons then?

Comment on 10 simple steps to preaching a sermon on Epigenetics by David Southwell

David Southwell — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:37:54 +0000

Dear John:

As I heard your “Daybreak Alberta” segment on epigenetics being broadcast throughout the province yesterday I felt obliged to respond.

Theologians don’t do good science, mainly because they think that they start with a book containing all the answers (this is something of a faux pas in scientific circles).

To spend a day amateurishly sampling scientific literature, cherry picking a few experimental results and then attempting to imbue your theological perspectives with credibility from them is highly disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

“Science confirms Old Testament!” – how dare you Sir?!

The expanding sphere of scientific understanding is systematically displacing the fear and ignorance that all superstitious belief systems are rooted in – it’s a powerful thing for Theologians to admire from afar – but not for them to participate in…

…just don’t go there…

–Dave

Comment on Does the nature of a book point to the nature of all of reality? by ေမသဇင္

ေမသဇင္ — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:51:44 +0000

hi par

Comment on Theology of Coldplay Assessment Tool by JVS

JVS — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:48:26 +0000

Totally right on Kristi. It’s why I always preach from both books.

Comment on Theology of Coldplay Assessment Tool by Kristi

Kristi — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:35:57 +0000

I can’t quiet the thought that we may not be able to effectively see & hear God’s truth in the general world without some measure of salvation/God’s transformative work…that we need “the scales to come off” first so that we can see the truth in front of us. General revelation (God revealed in nature, in each other, in the faint imprint of Him upon us) was not clear enough to transform us. We didn’t get it, would totally miss it. We needed something clearer, more blatant. We needed this truth to put on flesh, to talk to us and touch us, to feed us and even to bleed all over the place (Oh,hello Jesus, NOW I see you). Once we give God some leeway within us, then we can begin to truly see, and God is everywhere & is in everything. If we have not yet let God in, I don’t think we can see anything really clearly…. not in Coldplay, not anywhere. God transforms our perspective and can speak beauty & truth through Coldplay. Without God’s work in us, Coldplay can only get so far.

Comment on Preaching Criminal Minds by jake bosch

jake bosch — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:10:02 +0000

So all in all you and I turned out not too bad we pat each other on the back, metabolized our vanity well and live independently stout and became captives as a result – holding tight the hand rails of a well worn path.

Comment on Want to learn how to preach both books? by Dr BLT

Dr BLT — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:09:35 +0000

Even if I couldn’t make it there physically, I’d attend in spirit.

Comment on The Parable of News of the World by DJ

DJ — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:55:47 +0000

Well said.

Comment on The King’s Speech and co-illumination by Esmirna

Esmirna — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:28:24 +0000

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Comment on Preaching HUGO by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:43:21 +0000

So true Pam. Just like every other paradox of the faith. The truth is always a bit of, and all of, both.

Comment on Preaching HUGO by pam

pam — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:40:08 +0000

I’ve also thought about the quote on p 142 in relationship to predestination vs. human choice. Whatever we believe about predestination, the truth is, in the “bustle and the stampede” we are most aware of our own choices – that is where we live.

Comment on Can Edward love God? by k.

k. — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:51:09 +0000

Thanks for placing some human framework to this Cardus article in common language. So many big words – so little time. I was floundering at Phenomenologically, tripped on looking up neologism and was down for the count by soteriological. I got side tracked by the history lesson that I found somewhat disturbing and I would have missed the main point of the article had you not so nicely framed it here in your post here. Thank you so much for sharing.

- K

Comment on Finding Faith outside of the church by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:39:05 +0000

There is a lot of faith outside of the church. We can learn from our fellow man. I believe we are to live our lives as witnesses of our faith. In fact I think everyone lives what they believe. An open mind sees what God has created in each of His image bearers. Common grace what a concept!

Comment on I have so much to learn… by M-E

M-E — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:19:38 +0000

Ah, reminds me of a Casting Crowns song lyric; “Jesus is the only way to God but I am not the only way to Jesus”. May we be able to get out of His way and let Him work through us. So many times He works in ways we just never saw coming!

Comment on I have so much to learn… by Akemi

Akemi — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:22:54 +0000

The irony of it