St. John’s Park Slope

God Will Always Show Up by The Rev. Landon Moore 30.03.2024 10:00 ↓

Good Friday Sermon

Good Friday by Brother John Castaldo 29.03.2024 8:34 ↓

On the Cross

My Hope is Built on Nothing Less... 24.03.2024 10:46 ↓

Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday 🌿✝️💒 “On Christ the solid rock we stand All other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand.”

How Do People Change? 17.03.2024 14:41 ↓

"My weight is my love" -Augustine

The Snake on a Stake 10.03.2024 11:21 ↓

Mexico City artist Pedro Reyes turns weapons into musical instruments. In this morning’s Scripture readings, God turns symbols of defeat - snakes and crosses - into emblems of victory 🎉

"Destroy this temple..." 03.03.2024 13:20 ↓

Featuring Ken Follet's "The Pillars of the Earth," Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Joshua Bell's DC Metro performance, and the World Trade Center...

Take Up Your Cross 25.02.2024 13:10 ↓

God's ways are not our ways. (Service is the path to the life we want.)

He Rent the Heavens and Came Down! 18.02.2024 10:28 ↓

Mark's apocalyptic gospel is less about us giving things up and more about God making all things new...

Ash Wednesday 15.02.2024 12:29 ↓

"...God hates nothing he has made..."

Transfiguration ("Last... Epiphany") 11.02.2024 12:30 ↓

Our encounter with the God-human forgives, delivers, heals...

"Raised" to "Serve" 04.02.2024 13:16 ↓

Only 39 verses into Mark’s Gospel, and we’ve learned that the “good news of Jesus Christ” is forgiveness, exorcism(!), healing, and… purpose (and not just for those people back then)

The Way Things Are Is Not The Way Things Have To Be 28.01.2024 13:49 ↓

God makes a way

Epiphany II: I Believe in Order to Understand 14.01.2024 11:35 ↓

Nathanael, the leap of faith, and faith seeking understanding

Epiphany I: The Baptism of Jesus 11.01.2024 13:36 ↓

Jesus' baptism is an picture of what he came to do with sin/Sin...

The Feast of the Epiphany: The Feast of the Outsider 07.01.2024 11:39 ↓

Rev. Ben's sermon on the Feast of the Epiphany was preached at All Saints Episcopal Church (also in Park Slope). We had our first joint service in decades. A perfect occasion to participate in Christ's "breaking down [of] the walls of hostility!"

Christmas I: Jesus Means Salvation 01.01.2024 14:35 ↓

Happy 2024! This sermon was recorded at The Episcopal Church of St. Alban's the Martyr in Queens, NY. (Rev. Ben preached a similar sermon in Park Slope earlier in the day, but this one came out better.)

Christmas Day: New Beginnings 25.12.2023 7:33 ↓

On Christmas morning, we leave the shepherds, the magi, and even Mary and Joseph behind, to talk theology...

Christmas Eve: "The Getting is Good" 25.12.2023 8:15 ↓

Thank you, Sally Brown (of "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown")

Advent IV: How Do We "Prepare Him Room?" 24.12.2023 12:49 ↓

"Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen .

Advent III: The Christian Life is a Marathon? 17.12.2023 10:48 ↓

The Christian life is not a grueling test of the will; it’s a journey characterized by compassion and fulfillment of our needs…

Advent II: Jean Valjean and the Meaning of Baptism 15.12.2023 10:09 ↓

“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God...” Les Mis

Advent I 03.12.2023 11:03 ↓

Looking forward to the rectification of all things...

"Enter into the Joy of Your Master" 19.11.2023 13:18 ↓

God is not a "harsh man."

The End is Near 12.11.2023 14:17 ↓

What does it mean to watch and wait for the return of Christ? Rev. Ben tackles this question and more...

Lay Down Your Crown 05.11.2023 11:50 ↓

Do I Want to Become The Rev. Dr. Ben DeHart for the Prestige?