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May 26, 2018
5 min

A Most Encouraging Faith & Science Conference

This week I stepped out of the wilderness. I was at a conference for the STEAM project at Fuller Theological Seminary in Chicago - a wrap...

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John Van Sloten

May 3, 2018
2 min

When God Blesses your Work

Buried in the middle of the Old Testament book of 1 Chronicles is a beautiful vocational blessing. It comes from King David as he charges...

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John Van Sloten

Apr 18, 2018
2 min

God's Amazing Providence

For over a year now I have been waiting on what God has next for my life. At first it was excruciatingly stressful. Now there is more pea...

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When You Don't Have To Move To Be Sent By God

John Van Sloten

Apr 12, 2018
1 min

When You Don't Have To Move To Be Sent By God

There are times when you don't have to move to be sent by God. During the reign of King Jeroboam there was a blind prophet named Ahijah (...

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John Van Sloten

Mar 14, 2018
1 min

An Ottawa Radio Interview

Here's a link to new interview I did on Ottawa's CHRI. We ended up taking about how God is imaged by a federal government. Go figure.

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John Van Sloten

Jan 16, 2018
2 min

The Gospel through Maps

(For the next 6 months I'm going to be working on a couple of new books... so I figured I'd repost some 'best of' old blog entries here.....

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John Van Sloten

Dec 15, 2017
3 min

The Hard Work of Stopping

For months now I've been in a process of stopping. Eight months ago I left my job as a local church pastor. Seven months ago my book was ...

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The Story of Edward's Birth (and my call to become a pastor)

John Van Sloten

Dec 7, 2017
10 min

The Story of Edward's Birth (and my call to become a pastor)

This morning I woke up thinking about my son Edward's birth, and how God so powerfully used the event to call me into the ministry. Not o...

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John Van Sloten

Nov 23, 2017
1 min

An Interview with CBC radio

Here's an interview I did with CBC's Russell Bowers for his Sunday morning Daybreak program on Every Job a Parable. (When I left the inte...

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johnvansloten

Nov 18, 2017
1 min

An Interview with Dr. Amy Sherman

Here's an interview I did with Dr. Amy Sherman for Made To Flourish. She's a big work and faith thinker and MTF is a big faith and work o...

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John Van Sloten

Nov 3, 2017
3 min

I'm always a mess

Last night I had another 'lying there before God' moment. It felt like part two to the 'I know you' moment I had a couple of nights ago (...

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John Van Sloten

Nov 1, 2017
1 min

"I know you"

I said these words last night at 2:00 am; "I know you." It felt like God was in the room. My eyes were wet and my voice was trembling. "I...

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John Van Sloten

Sep 30, 2017
2 min

Work as a door to God

Sometimes I wonder if the door of vocation will be the one through which the Spirit walks when God decides to wake everyone up to his eve...

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John Van Sloten

Sep 14, 2017
2 min

A Snapshot of Where Things Are At

Yesterday was an amazing day. It began with words from a psalm - "I will praise you Lord among the nations" (57:9). They felt more numino...

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John Van Sloten

Aug 19, 2017
2 min

My Journey into Humility

A couple of days of days ago a friend posted this video of composer Arvo Pärt receiving an honorary degree from St. Vladimir's Orthodox T...

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John Van Sloten

Aug 4, 2017
1 min

A Radio Interview on Chicago's AM1160

Yesterday afternoon I had this interview with AM1160's Mark Elfstand on Every Job a Parable. (I stressed over this interview all day long...

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The Top 7 things I learned at a Collegeville Institute Writer's Workshop

John Van Sloten

Aug 3, 2017
6 min

The Top 7 things I learned at a Collegeville Institute Writer's Workshop

Last month I had the privilege of attending a week long Collegeville Institute writer's workshop entitled, A Broader Public: Writing for ...

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John Van Sloten

Jul 26, 2017
2 min

God's Body Language

This fall I'll be preaching five new bio-sermons on God's revelation through the human body (Sunday mornings at Riverpark CRC... on the h...

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John Van Sloten

Jul 26, 2017
2 min

What's next?

Three months ago I left my job as a local church pastor to make more room in my life for getting a big idea out into the world. If you kn...

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