Rector at St. John's, Park Slope | Co-host of Our Triune Pod | Notes From DeHart 👇
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🔔 In 20 months, St John’s Park Slope has grown from an average Sunday attendance of 30 to 150. This Thanksgiving, we’re deeply grateful to @Livng_Church for their initial recognition and, above all, to God for His incredible provision 🙏
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“Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.”
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I need your help, whether or not St. John's Park Slope is your church.
This week we launched our pledge drive. Three years ago we had under $10,000 in the bank and no endowment. By God's grace, we're still here, and growing: Sunday attendance has grown nearly sixfold and…
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… do this well, and I'd value honest eyes. Here's the letter and email we sent this week. Over the next four weeks I'll share the short notes going into our newsletter. Tell me what lands and what doesn't.
And if St. John's is your church, or you'd like to help it, you can…
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… pledge or give here: parkslopechurch.org/give
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Tomorrow is a full Sunday at St. John's Park Slope. 🐾📚
After the 10 a.m. service, join us for What Is Theology? Week 3, beginning 10 minutes after the service ends.
Then at 1 p.m., bring your animals to the church garden for our St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals!
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Revival tonight at St. Gabriel’s!
St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church is gathering tonight for an evening of worship, preaching, and prayer, and I’ll be joining the Rev. Cheryl Parris to preach.
If you’re in the area come be part of it. Everyone is welcome.
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St. John's Park Slope is getting a seminarian! Josue will be joining us on Sundays beginning October 4 to learn, participate, and contribute. We can’t wait to have him with us this Sunday. Here’s a little about him:
Guesnerth Josue Perea is a postulant for Holy Orders in the…
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…Diocese of Long Island, serves as Director of Black Lives and Contemplation for the Center for Spiritual Imagination, and Executive Director of the afrolatin@ forum. A dedicated Brooklynite, who grew up in Park Slope and Sunset Park, he wholeheartedly believes that…
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Pizza and Pechakucha at St. John's Park Slope. Friday, October 9. 20 slides, 20 seconds each...Who knows what they might talk about....Could be anything!
7-8 p.m Pizza and Drinks
8-9 p.m. Pechakucha!
RSVP BY OCT 8 for a pizza headcount
Part of St. John’s Adult(ish) ministry
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You’ve already watched everything on Netflix. Beat your cabin fever tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St. John's Park Slope.
Ripping off my colleague, Jennifer Owen. Most fun social media idea in a long time.
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Beginning this Sunday, we’re going to spend five weeks doing what some call Biblical Theology. The story the first Christians told was not about how we make our way “up” to God. It was about how God comes “down” to us.
Here’s how we’ll trace that story through Scripture…
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1. Creation: God Builds a Home
2. Israel: God Moves In
3. Jesus: God Comes Home in Person
4. The Church: God Makes His Home in Us
5. New Creation: God Comes Home for Good
And in the spring, because the Bible is more than a story, we’ll turn to Systematic Theology...
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I don't have much strength these days but I have enough to know extraordinary imagination and faithful exegesis when I hear it. Plus an eye-popping lesson in Old Master art history.
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I’ve been skimming through a lot of my old theology books, getting ready for the What Is Theology? class at St. John’s Park Slope.
One I haven’t been able to skim: “Seeds of Faith,” by Mark McIntosh and Frank Griswold. It’s accessible, it’s beautiful, and it makes you want to…
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… be a Christian. Some theology makes you want to argue about God. This makes you want to get involved with God.
“At its heart, then, faith is what grows within us as God awakens us to God’s inexhaustible love for us — a love that will never turn away from us…
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