Author: Sara WG
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Grace Actually Makes Us Bold (A Sermon on Ruth 1:1-14 & 18-22)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on May 3, 2020. Listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his…
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Resurrection People #2: What Does it Mean to be a Resurrection People (New Creation & Resurrection)
Join with Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers and Dr. Christian Winn along with their guest Organic Bob in the second of a six-week podcast series exploring the question: What does it mean to be a Resurrection people? This week the focus is Resurrection & New Creation. Engage the conversation then on Facebook , Instagram, or via email with Sara or Christian. You…
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Being a Resurrection People: Episode #1
During this strange time, one of my greatest locations of localized anxiety has been my concern that people in the community of faith where I am a minister might be feeling particularly isolated and unseen. Thus, I’ve been working collectively with others to offer intentional opportunities for people to connect for worship (via YouTube or…
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Grace Actually Sees (A Sermon on Luke 19:1-10)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on April 19, 2020. You can listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was,…
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Easter Sunrise Audio Experience: Hope Interrupts Death
At Colonial Church where I am a pastor, we typically host a sunrise service. It’s amazing…the group gathered on a hill awaits the morn together. The bagpipes play. A cross is on the hill. And then, like a long awaited miracle, the sun rises and the dawn is reborn. Obviously, in this time of Coronavirus,…
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Good Friday Reflection (Mark 15:40-47)
A reflection given at Colonial Church as a part of the Good Friday Service on April 10, 2020. You can listen below. Or, you can watch the whole service on YouTube. 40 There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and…
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Hope Interrupts Power: A Sermon in the Midst of Coronavirus (Zech. 4:1-7)
A sermon given for Colonial Church during COVID on March 29, 2020 *Note- The text below reflects an edited version of the sermon that was actually shared with the Colonial Church community (it was edited for time). You can watch the whole original sermon on my YouTube page! 1 The angel who talked with me…
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Hope Interrupts (A Sermon on Leviticus 23:1-8)
A sermon given at Colonial Church for Ash Wednesday on February 26, 2020. “The Lord spoke to Moses saying, ‘Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed festivals.’ Six days shall work, be done, but the…
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A Christian Feminist Ethicist & Pastor on Sex and the Patriarchy
I was recently contacted by a journalist who was writing a piece about sexuality in the context of religion, and she reached out to me in particular as I identify as a feminist and a pastor. She asked me to respond to questions listed in italics below. In writing my response, I realized how much I’ve been…
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On Bodies (A Sermon on I Corinthians 12:12-31)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on January 26, 2020. 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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Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 