St. John’s Park Slope

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St. John’s Park Slope episodes

August 30 What Does It Mean to Take Up Your Cross?
My “Cross to bear” is neither my bum knee nor an invitation to be trampled upon.
19 min
August 16 Jesus and the Canaanite Woman
The Canaanites brought back in
14 min
August 09 He Treads The Sea
The walking on the water story is a theophany…
17 min
August 02 Someone Always Pays
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
19 min
July 26 Nothing Is Lost
Charli XCX’s new album ends with David Cronenberg saying, over and over, that no one lasts forever. I appreciate the honesty. A critic called it a litany for an afterlife-free church. Romans 8 is the response. Not a Hallmark card, not death-denial, but the promise that God makes a way out of no way. That nothing is lost. That everything bad will be undone.
16 min
July 19 The Wheat and the Weeds
We cannot tell wheat from weeds — not in the world, not in the church, not even in ourselves. The line runs through every heart. The servants’ zeal to purify is the most natural instinct in the world, and it’s the one thing forbidden…
15 min
July 12 The Good Sower
Today’s Gospel invites reflection, but it’s about more than that.

The same Sower who seems reckless with the seed is the good farmer who keeps scattering and tilling until the soil is ready.

Join us every Sunday at St. John’s Park Slope at 10 AM. 💒
15 min
July 05 Gotta Serve Somebody
Like Bob Dylan, I love America (Go US Soccer 🇺🇸), but “My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man. My first allegiance is not to democracy or blood. But to a king and a kingdom.”
11 min
June 28 The Best Kind of Splitting Hairs
Indicative and imperatives; commands wrapped up in promises
15 min
June 14 Balm and Purpose
Grace and vision, or love births love
13 min

About St. John’s Park Slope

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Sermons from St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, NY, by The Rev. Ben DeHart. We exist to proclaim the good news of the Gospel! Our Sunday service is at 10 a.m., and our beautiful old church in Park Slope is easy to get to from all over the city. We hope you’ll stop by soon!