Category: Church
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Be The Church #3: Genesis thru the Gospels
Join Rev. Sara Wilhelm Garbers and Dr. Christian Winn in their third episode of the Be the Church podcast. Today, they’re touring through Genesis all the way to the Gospels, exploring how God has journeyed with God’s people throughout history and what it means to “Be the Church.” Join in the reflection and conversation and tune in below.
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God First (A Sermon on Judges 5:1-13)
Our relationship with God is supposed to shape who we are, and so that the call and the cry at the end of Judges, I’d argue, is best understood not as an apology for a monarchy, for a king here on earth to save us (even if that’s what the editors intended and what some…
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Be The Church #2: The Color of Law
This fall, our podcast series “Be the Church” will feature two monthly episodes, the first one each month focuses on our sermon series and what we’re learning about the Bible and ourselves, and the second episode of each month focuses on our Faith & Justice text for the month. In this second episode, join Rev. Sara…
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People of the Promise (A Sermon on Genesis 12:1-9)
And so as we are seeking to be the church, to be a people who live our lives connected to the God of the whole of all of the stories, we want to be a people of promise, a people who remind each other that God isn’t done with any of us yet, and that…
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Be The Church #1: Introduction
In this first episode Rev. Sara WG & Rev. Christian Collins Winn invite us into our podcast series for the fall in which the first installment each month will delve more deeply into our sermon series on what it means for us to “Be the Church” and the second episode each month will summarize and introduce…
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Monday Meditation #19: New Mercies
Every morning, God’s mercies rise anew. On this rainy Monday morning, I shared with the congregation what it means that God’s compassion is new every day, and encourages us to consider how we might open ourselves to that compassion.
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A New Heavens & A New Earth (A Sermon on Revelation 21:1-8)
This sermon was given from a boat in Northern Wisconsin during COVID for the streamed worship service Colonial Church. Given on August 28, 2020. You can listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 Then I saw new heavens and a new earth. The former heavens and the former earth…
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Kingdom People #5: The Cross & The Lynching Tree
In this episode, Rev. Sara WG & Laura VanderTop will provide some introductory thoughts to the book that we will be discussing together later this month. This conversation sets up some of the discourse in the book and some encouragement for ways into reading it. The Cross and the Lynching Tree is Dr. James Cone’s…
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Monday Meditation #17: Vulnerable Opening
Self-control isn’t about white-knuckling—it’s about releasing control so we can be open to grace. For this Monday Meditation I shared with the congregation about self-control, sharing stories about my grandma, reflecting on how the fruit of self-control is less about trying harder to control yourself, and more about opening ourselves to receive God’s grace.
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The Kin-Dom of God (A Sermon on John 15:12-17)
And that is the command we are given: the command to love one another, to lay down our lives, to be friends with all of God’s children, just as God has called and named us friends. No longer are we servants or slaves under some master. No, we are instead invited to follow brother Jesus…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 