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Marda Loop Church Podcast
by Marda Loop Church Podcast
Marda Loop Church is a team and a community of people who are all about engaging God everywhere — via science, sport, art, film, work, politics and more. Our hope is that this podcast will be a helpful way for you to engage with us and the world around you; whether you are sitting in your car, making yourself lunch, or out for a walk, we want you to be able to experience and meet with God along side us. Here you will find our latest sermons and a few other things we wanted to share with you. Thanks for listening!
Episodes
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The Medieval Longbow (When Wood Misses The Mark)
This week we continue our series on The Theology of Wood with a sermon on the story of the medieval longbow and what it teaches us about how God's good creation can often fall short and miss the mark. Join us as we continue seek, name, and know God everywhere!
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The Theology of Wood
This week, Pastor John will be talking about the created potential of wood—God's gift to build a world. In the weeks ahead we'll talk about how that potential sometimes falls short, how it can be redemptive (via a conversation with several woodworkers), and how it can sometimes sound like glory...
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Handel's Messiah (Imagine Knowing God Personally)
Join us for a three part series on Handel's Messiah and how God is at work in the centuries old music of George Frideric Handel.
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Handel's Messiah (What Comfort Sounds Like)
Join us for a three part series on Handel's Messiah and how God is at work in the centuries old music of George Frideric Handel.
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Growing Into the Future With Confidence
Join us this week as we talk about and look towards God's good future and our place in it.
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Are Miracles Really Supernatural?
This week, Pastor John talks about the nature of miracles, proposing a paradigm shift towards thinking about miracles as a natural way of realigning broken things in our world.
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How to See an Unseen God
Join us as Pastor John talks about the ebb and flow of the God who moves in and in between the mundane and the extravagance of everyday life.
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Confessing Our Sins (Re: Indigenous Cultural Genocide)
Pastor John talks about the process of truth and reconciliation, and we acknowledge the pain we have caused and been a part of causing. Join us as we mourn, learn, and take steps towards reconciliation.
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Engaging Worry As Prayer
Join us as Cari Fydirchuk brings us a timely word on worry and prayer.
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An Insect Parable (From the Entomological Mind of God)
Join us as we dive into some of the many things we can learn about God from insects!
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The Theology of Blue Jays Baseball
In the wake of the Blue Jays loss this year, Pastor John preaches on baseball and the God who gives good gifts - even when we lose.
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God Includes Everyone (Whoever You Are)
This week, pastor John talks about inclusion and how all people are invited to God's table. Join us as we take communion together, and feel free to participate and partake with whatever you have from wherever you are listening.
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God Shares (Life With You)
Thanks for Joining us!
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God Speaks Your Language (and Knows Where You're at)
This week, we talk about how God speaks through the wind, sailing, and however else we may need to meet with our creator.
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Giving Up Control (And Finding Spiritual Freedom)
Join us as John talks about finding freedom in God's sovereignty and in surrendering our own sense of control.
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What Does it Mean to be Known by God?
John's back and ready to dig in, starting with tackling the question of what does it mean to be know by God? A common but cryptic saying with a deep message, join us as we work on knowing and being known by God.
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God's (Auto) Restoring Heart
Here's one from the vault's! Join us as John talks about the God who restores us and who has built it into us to restore things as well - like cars.
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What Sort of Tale Have we Fallen Into?
Join us as guest preacher Jacqui Mignault brings us a word on Peter and Cornelius, Sam and Frodo, and the stories we find ourselves in.
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The Theology of Horses
Join us as Pastor John talks about his experience with the power and beauty of horses and how we can see God in and at work in these magnificent animals.
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Experiencing God's Restoration
Join us as we talk about some of the ways that God restores us - our minds, our hearts, and our relationship to God.
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Waiting For God
This week, Pastor John talks about the psalms, patience, and the movement of our great God. Thanks for joining us!
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Escaping With God (Psalm 124)
Join us this week as Pastor John Van Sloten speaks about how God sets us free from our bonds.
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The Sporting Parable of Connor McDavid
Join us as Pastor John talks about God's presence in hockey players.
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God's Veiled Mystery in a Giant Squid
As we wrap up our "theology of animals pod," Paster John talks about the mysteries and wonder found in the scientific pursuit of the illusive giant squid.
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The Fearless Parable of the Wolverine
This week, Pastor John Van Sloten Talks about wolverines.
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The Theology of Animals
Join us as Paster John introduces our "theology of animals" pod.
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Seeing God
This week, Reverend Paul Verhoef is bring us a message on the beatitudes and seeing God. Thanks for joining us!
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Easter Sunday, J. S. Bach, and the Nicene Creed
As we continue with our "Easter though the lens of Bach" theme, Paster John brings us more words on the hope and joy that are found in the resurrection of Christ and the reflections of this in Johann Sebastian Bach's music. So please Join us as we celebrate, listen, and learn together.
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Good Friday, J. S. Bach, and the Nicene Creed
For our 2022 Good Friday service, John thought that words simply weren't enough. So please Join us as we learn about how we can know God more and understand more fully Christ's sacrifice for us on the cross through the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Re-Forming the Church
This sermon was a combination service with our regional classis as we publicly have a ceremony confirming Paster John within the RCA denomination. To see the full confirmation process, head over to our YouTube Channel.
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The Stories of Esther, Zelensky, and a God who Risked it all for Others
This week, as we wrap up or Old Testament pod, Pastor John brings us a message on the story of Esther. Join us as we talk about courage, brokenness, and the God who is present even in the unnamed and unseen moving of the spirit. Thanks for joining us! This week's sermon also includes a video on…
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The Exodus (When God saves us in spite of ourselves)
Join us for more stories from the Old Testament as Pastor John discusses the Israelites exodus from Egypt and God's saving nature.
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Noah's Ark (and living with the end in mind)
This week, Pastor John unpacks the story of Noah's Ark. Join us today as we talk about floods, wars, and what it means to live looking towards the end.
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Cain and Abel (and the Murderous Power of Envy)
This week's message marks the beginning of our Old Testament series. In this sermon, John breaks down the story of the brothers Cain and Abel, while drawing parallels to the tragedy that has been taking place in Ukraine. Join us as we delve into God's word today.
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Finding Strength in Weakness
This week, John talks about the status of our church, our journey so far, and the lessons we have learned as we have been walking through this pandemic.
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Encanto (And the Problem of Generational Trauma)
This week, Pastor John shares the truth of the gospel message using the lens of the Disney film, "Encanto." We go into this movie as a spiritual parable that shines a light on generational trauma and it's damaging power to relationships. Unresolved trauma echos through generations, physically,...
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The Velveteen Rabbit (And Becoming Real)
Join us as we begin this month's series: "the Gospel According to Children's Stories." This week, John is preaching on Margery Williams' "the Velveteen Rabbit" and the realness that comes from being loved.
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Finding God Through Maps
Come join us this week as Pastor John Van Sloten Speaks about finding God through maps.
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The Theology of Ice
For week two our our Theology of Winter pod, Pastor John prepares us for our winter skating party and gives us a new way to look at the beauty in ice.
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The Parable of Winter
Happy New Year! This week Pastor John Van Sloten of Marda Loop Church begins a short series exploring ”The Theology of Winter.” In the natural world, winter is a time of slowing down, of mustering the meagre resources to get through a difficult time in preparation for a magnificent…
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Christmas Eve
Come and join us as we celebrate Christmas Eve together!
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Processing Pandemic Stress (An Interview with a Psychologist)
Join us this week as Pastor John talks interviews a psychologist about managing stress in the midst of a pandemic.
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Growing Through Pandemic Trauma
Pastor John of Marda Loop Church continues his sermon series exploring pandemic stress and the doctrine of the incarnation. The message of the incarnation is “God with us”. The ultimate antidote for pandemic stress and trauma is knowing who we are with and experiencing that "with-ness” in a real...
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God With Us (In Our Pandemic Stress)
Join us this week as Pastor John speaks on how we deal with trauma better when we share our burden with others.
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The Parable of an ICU Nurse
This week's message is about the God imaging, lifesaving work that ICU nurses carryout. Join us as Pastor John unpacks all this in our 2nd week of this months' "What it Means to Image God" series.
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The Beauty and Power of Imaging God
Join us this week as John talks more about the ways in which we image God and what all that entails!
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Finding God's Stillness (Via Psalm 46)
Join us for this week's message as John talks about God's invisible, sustaining presence.
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The Wisdom of God (And Lady Gaga)
"Without the kind of faith in God that is larger than life, and therefore worth dying for, and therefore worth living for, without a LIVED LOVE AFFAIR with God, life is vanity of vanities, the shadow of a shadow, a dream within a dream." - Peter Kreeft
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How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth
Pastor John Van Sloten delivers his message on how to read the bible for all its worth! “As you read the various narratives, [we have to] be constantly on the lookout for how the inspired narrator discloses the point of view from which you are to understand the story.” – Gordon Fee and Douglas...
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The Saving Parable of mRNA Vaccines
Pastor John Van Sloten of Marda Loop Church shares the gospel message with Part two of the three-part series “God and Science.” This week, Pastor John shares the “Story of the Saving Parable of mRNA Vaccines.” Imagine, God has given all of us an incredible immune system - a vaccine-receptive,...
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Marda Loop Church is a team and a community of people who are all about engaging God everywhere — via science, sport, art, film, work, politics and more. Our hope is that this podcast will be a helpful way for you to engage with us and the world around you; whether you are sitting in your car, making yourself lunch, or out for a walk, we want you to be able to experience and meet with God along side us. Here you will find our latest sermons and a few other things we wanted to share with you. Thanks for listening!
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