Calvary ~ St. George's Sermon Podcast

The Rev. Jacob Smith talks about the importance of rescuing Jesus' encounter with Zacchaeus from the famous children's song.

The Rev. MJ Layton explores how humans frequently fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to other people. But true humility is found in comparing ourselves to God. We know that we will never measure up to his perfection, but he in his graciousness will extend mercy to us for our imperfection.

The Rev. Janet Broderick gives a sermon about God’s power poured out on our weakness.

The Rev. Jacob Smith unpacks the Gospel in the healing of Naaman the Syrian.

The Rev. MJ Layton explores how the pain, hurt, and injustice around us often does not make sense and is not how God intended the world to be. By faith in the faithfulness of God we can live in the midst of these questions and confusion.

The Rev. MJ Layton explains that we do not need to live either in a fantasy that we will get away with our sins or in fear of eternal judgment, because Jesus’s resurrection ensures for us forgiveness of sins and life after death.

Bishop Andrew Dietsche visits Calvary ~ St. George's and unpack the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from the Gospel of Luke.

The Rev. Jacob Smith unpacks one of Jesus’ more confusing parables to reveal the Gospel found within it.

The Rev. Janet Broderick asks "How many things are we shepherding? Looking for? What kind of anxiety is that causing?" Jesus speaks directly to this human condition with love and a suggestion.

The Rev. Matthew Hoskinson examines Jesus' difficult teaching of "counting the cost" and help us find rest in the cross as we look to Christ's goodness not ours, to his sacrifice not ours.

The Rev. MJ Layton explores how Jesus’s comments about dinner parties might seem simply like good advice: “Don’t take the important seat! Make sure you invite someone who has less than you!” But this passage actually points us to something much better: God’s dinner party, enacted each week at the communion table, where we are invited to receive Christ’s body in the bread and wine.

In this sermon, the Rev. Jacob Smith shares the good news of the Gospel for people bent over by burdens.

In this sermon, the Reverend Jacob Smith unpacks one of the difficult sayings of Jesus.

The Rev. MJ Layton examines the stories of men and women of faith who trusted in the promises of God even when they didn’t always see them fulfilled. God calls us to walk that same journey of faith, but we do not do it alone, because God sent us his Son to walk it for us. Jesus walked the journey perfectly and because of him, we also can trust the promises of God.

The Rev. Jacob Smith explains what the good life looks like.

The Rev. Janet Broderick looks at the character of God in Christ, and the lengths he'll go to answer our prayers in ways we couldn't have imagined.

The Rev. Matthew Hoskinson examines the story of Mary and Martha and finds the freedom that comes with sitting at the feet of Jesus.

The Rev. MJ Layton explores how Jesus Christ identifies himself with the lowly, weak, and vulnerable, to meet us at our deepest point of need and to save the world from itself. When we come to Christ, we get to join his neighborhood, the neighborhood of the least and the lost.

The Rev. Jacob Smith reminds us that the Kingdom of God has already been built and it has come near us.

The Rev. Janet Broderick points us to Christ setting his face toward Jerusalem, as he calls us to leave everything, and follow him, and and still loves us even when we don’t.