Category: Church
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A Litany for Mother’s Day
To you who have nurtured us, who have struggled so that we might live and flourish in the world. To you who have cared for our bodies and souls, who have given of yourself to make our future possible. To you, our mothers who birthed us. To you, our mothers who adopted us as your…
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For They Were Afraid (A Sermon on Mark 16:1-8)
Given at Colonial Church on April 15, 2018. You can access the sermon below. When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen,…
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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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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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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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On Being Christian (A Sermon on I John 4:7-21)
Given as a guest preacher at Colonial Church on December 27, 2015. You can listen to the sermon below. Beloved let us love one another because love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God, whoever does not love does not know God for God is love. God’s love was…
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“A Tale of Three Seminaries”…A Reappraisal
This post has been a long time in coming. Since 2008, like many of you, I’ve witnessed the conversations about the future of theological education online, in print, and in person…and specifically, have seen a lot of recent talk about the three Protestant seminaries of the Twin Cities (esp. on FB). Much of the discussion…
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On Growing Up an Evangelical Woman
My pastor, Dan Collison, at First Covenant Church in Minneapolis asked if I would share my story of growing up as a female person in the evangelical church…and I wanted to share it with you. You can either read it below, or you can watch a version online. It is my story of navigating the conflicting…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 