Author: Sara WG
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The Foolishness of the Cross (A Maundy Thursday Sermon on I Corinthians 1:18-31; with Jeff Lindsay)
This sermon was co-preached at Colonial Church for Maundy Thursday of Lent on March 29, 2018. You can listen to the sermon HERE. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, ‘I will…
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People on Pilgrimage (A Sermon on Psalm 30)
A sermon given at Colonial Church during Lent on March 11, 2018. This was the third of five sermons on the same text. Psalm 30 (NRSV) Thanksgiving for Recovery from Grave Illness A Song at the dedication of the temple. Of David. 1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up,…
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Faith Embodied (A Sermon on I Corinthians 12:12-31)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on January 28, 2018. 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we…
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In Spirit & In Truth (A Sermon on John 4:1-26)
My first sermon as a newly ordained minister at Colonial Church. Given on January 21, 2018. 4 Now when Jesuslearned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” 2 —although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized— 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4 But he had to go through…
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On Keeping Warm Through the Night
Originally featured in “Firelight”, a Newsletter from Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. Learn more about their work online at: http://mnipl.nationbuilder.com. I’m in the midst of a significant life decision, and in my discernment and processing I’ve been brought face-to-face with the ways in which I was formed to believe that it is my job to carry people and systems—that…
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In Memory of “G”: Joey Elaine Stahlberg 1934-2017
Joey Stahlberg (Klopp) of Minneapolis December 8, 1934- April 17, 2017- Eternally 51 Memorial Service: June 1, 2017 at First Covenant Minneapolis in the Sanctuary at 5:30pm More info about the service is available online Joey is celebrated by her friends and family and is survived by: her brother Kent Klopp, his spouse, Kathy, and their…
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Map on a Wall
This fall I’ve taught the Mentored Leadership Development Sequence for Bethel Seminary. Each week (well just about each week), I write up a reflection that invites students to continue to develop and press into the formational work and invitations of the course. And though I haven’t shared other reflections, I wanted to share my final…
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“I’m Not Ready to Make Nice”: Reflections on the Inward Journey
Given for chapel at United Seminary on November 17, 2016 in the wake of the 2016 election. Three pieces were read before the sermon: “For the Unknown Self” by John O’Donohue Proverbs 4:20-27 “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou In the spring of 2003 I was enrolled in a course at the University…
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Mother(s)
I wrote this poem on Saturday as a part of the #slamstigma slam poetry close for the conference “Mental Health and the Faith Community’s Response“. The event was publicized as follows: 1 in 5 Americans live with a mental health condition. Many times they are stigmatized, feared and shunned. Others suffer silently, afraid to share their stories…
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A Note to G
January 5, 2016 Dear G- I love you! I can’t believe that a new year has sprung; you are now 81. Sometimes I wonder about you–about the world that you knew back in 1940, ’41, and ’42. Why and when did you cry? When did you feel and know you were alive? When did the terror…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 