Calvary ~ St. George's Sermon Podcast

Jesus comes to the disciples in order to give them a Word. This Word turns fear into peace and doubt into faith. Christ continues to deliver this same Word to us through proclamation and the sacraments.

Listen to the Rev. Jacob Smith's sermon on Easter Sunday 2024.

As humans, we think we can make Jesus a king, but his kingship is actually found in his sacrifice on the cross.

In this sermon, the Rev.Jacob Smith talks about covenant and how Jesus mediates the New Covenant.

Sin wounds our souls like poison harms our bodies. Our healing is found in Jesus, who takes our sinful humanity to the cross, dying and rising again.

In this sermon, the Rev. Jacob Smith articulates how Jesus is the cornerstone of the new and living temple.

In this sermon, The Reverend Jacob A. Smith looks at how God counts righteous.

Noah’s flood foreshadows baptism; in each sin and evil are washed away in death, and we emerge to new life to hear God’s promises to us. But baptism is only the beginning of our journey, and as we walk through the wilderness, we cling to the promises God made to us in our baptism.

In this sermon, the Rev. Janet Broderick reflects on God's preventing grace in our lives that acts as kindling, igniting love in our hearts.

Through the Holy Spirit, in Word and Sacrament, we have been met by Jesus in our darkest hour and darkest places, reminded that we have been, despite ourselves, saved.

Whether we are caught in the throes of sin or struggling with an addiction, we need the redemption of God found in his grace, mercy, and forgiveness. God pulls us out of the depths to forgive our sin, to his glory.

In this sermon, The Reverend Jacob Smith shares how, often, the temporal can distract us from the Good News of the eternal.

In this sermon, the Reverend Jacob Smith uses the Nazareth Principle to make the proper distinction between Skepticism and Cynicism.

Through Jesus Christ’s incarnation, God welcomes us as adopted children into his family, where we find love, truth, and grace.

On Christmas Eve, the Rev. Jacob Smith reflected on three themes of Christmas: History, Mystery, and Destiny.

As we experience God’s forgiveness in our lives, we still live in a world marred by the impacts of sin. Advent calls us to look to Christ’s return as a time when our rejoicing will be complete, with sin and death conquered forever.

On this first Sunday of Advent the Reverend Jacob Smith reminds us all that all we are given is today, and therefore everyday is gift to enjoy and share God's grace.

When Christ is revealed as King, he will judge our world. But both our place in that judgment and his place in that judgment are unexpected.

In this sermon The Rev. Jacob Smith reminds the congregation that the right perception of God is really important.

The Rev. Magnus Persson, visiting us from Sweden, delivers an energetic message about the coming of the Bridegroom. Though we will all sleep, we can be assured that Christ will carry us home, waking us up to a glorious future.