Calvary ~ St. George's Sermon Podcast

What’s it like to be encountered by the love of Jesus? Instantaneous or gradual? Jim Munroe’s sermon looks at the witness of St. Peter for some clues to the experience of falling into the arms of mercy.

The Rev. Jacob Smith places the Jesus' encounter with the Canaanite Woman in its proper context and shares the Good News of being a dog in the Kingdom of Heaven

The Rev. Jacob Smith shares the Good News of not being able to walk on water.

The Feeding of the 5000 is found in all four Gospels, and is one of the most popular stories in the Bible. But what does it tell us about God? What does it tell us about you and me?

The onset of COVID, racial conflicts, unemployment and political tooth-and-nailing have caused the normal groans of life to go postal. God’s response? Jim Munroe points to it in this sermon: Romans 8

God is not some good old chap who looks the other way no matter what, and that’s good news. But there’s more!

The pandemic has highlighted how physically frail we all are. In Romans 8, St. Paul highlights our spiritual frailty. And in this sermon, Jim Munroe points to our adoption into the strength of Jesus.

Rev. Ben talks about the tragedy of the human condition and the good news of the refiner's fire.

If you’re not feeling welcomed, or if you’re feeling that you don’t deserve to be welcomed, then take a look in this sermon at the kinds of people in the Bible who are welcomed by Jesus.

The Rev. Jacob Smith unpacks a hard saying of Jesus. No one ever thought, "take up a cross, gosh, that sounds like he is talking to me. I think I’ll choose to take that on. I’ll at least give it the old Harvard try."

Most of us do not like to think of ourselves as complicit in wrongdoing, but for the Apostle Paul the reality that God revealed his love for us while we were still undeserving is how we can be assured that God will love us no matter what. God does not wait for us to take the first step toward him or even to get to a ‘neutral’ position: “God proves his love for us in this, while we still were sinners Christ died for us” (5:8).

Rev Jacob Smith shares how the roles of the trinity have something to say to our society.

In this sermon the Reverend Jacob Smith reminds the congregation that the hope of the world is never found within us, but rather it is found in the Gospel outside of us.

The Reverend Jacob Smith shares the Good News that comes from the God who cares about you.

What does Jesus mean when he says, “If you love me you will keep my commands?” Is he the most co-dependent boyfriend ever? As conditional as your hard-nosed boss? No different than your passive-aggressive mother-in-law? Or is he saying something altogether different?

In this sermon the Reverend Jacob Smith articulates why Jesus’ bold claim about himself is such good news for you today.

It’s Good Shepherd Sunday and I’m hearing Jesus being compared to a gate? What’s the deal? Is this one of those ‘Us vs. Them’ texts? Well, in a way, it is, but probably not the way you’re thinking. Hear The Rev. Ben DeHart talk about why it’s comforting news that Jesus is The Gate.

In this sermon the Reverend Jacob Smith shows where the road to Emmaus intersects with our roads.

The Rev. Ben talks about why the disciples were fearfully quarantined behind locked doors