Calvary ~ St. George's Sermon Podcast

In this sermon The Rev. Jacob Smith demonstrates how Jesus creates both faith and unbelief in our hearts.

In this sermon The Reverend Jacob Smith shares the meaning of the Good News found in what Jesus does and doesn’t read from The Prophet Isaiah.

In this sermon Jacob explores how Jesus’ first miracle at a wedding in the town Canan is a foreshadow of things to come.

Why did Jesus get Baptized?

Where the Gospel is heard and believed it makes us new people, wise men and women, in the way of faith. And beginning down this aisle Christ has given each and everyone of us a new road to walk, a new way of seeing yourself, a new way of thinking.

Christmas is good news because it’s more than sentimental cheer. Jesus has entered enemy-occupied territory. The grand reclamation project of God’s creation has begun!

Today we celebrate God as a gift giver, and his gift is not based on your goodness and loving kindness but his goodness and loving kindness, it is based on his grace, for if it was based on us and our worthiness, we’d all be on the naughty list and gift-less.

We know that God can do everything and anything he would like to do. He is in control. However, tonight, and the entire Bible for that matter, testifies and confesses not to what God can do, rather tonight testifies and as Christians we celebrate what God wills to do.

The Gospel changes absolutely everything, and makes the impossible not only possible, and hopelessly hopeful, but a new reality. And you and I as Christians live in that new reality.

In our individualist, perfectionist society in which all of the messaging we get tell us to just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and pull ourselves together - John's words come at us as a directive, rather than as the judgement that paves the way for grace.

It's Advent 2. One of the two Sundays in the season that we zero in on John the Baptist. Repent ye!

It's Advent. It's the season of the intervention of God on behalf of creation.

In the sermon on Christ Christ the King Sunday the Reverend Jacob Smith explores the difference between truth statements and the truth.

When Jesus talks about the final judgment and the end of time, are we ready? Jim’s sermon looks to the promise of Jesus for something beyond the end, beyond judgment - something new.

Stoicism is not good news. From the beginning, Christians have maintained that an acceptance of Death would be tantamount to an acceptance of injustice. And if there’s anything we’ve learned from the social movements of the past year, it’s that making peace with Death is akin to making peace with oppression. It’d be like making peace with the Nazi party. It’d be like accepting all that wages war against God’s creation as necessary.

The Reverend Jacob A. Smith looks at Jesus' teaching on the commandments, and what Jesus means when he tells the scribe "you are near the Kingdom of God."

In this sermon the Rev. Jacob Smith looks at the meaning of christian discipleship.

Jim’s sermon looks at Mark 10:45 and hears Jesus saying to us “I’m here” in every conceivable circumstance.

In this sermon the Rev. Jacob Smith takes a look at the subtlety of idolatry and God’s gift of eternal life.

In this Sermon Jacob looks at the question behind the Pharisees' question: is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife and Jesus' seemingly harsh response.