Category: Faith
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For Onto Us a Child is Born (A Christmas Sermon on Isaiah 9:2-7)
This was part one of a two part sermon given on Christmas Eve 2018. I did the first part and Daniel Harrell did the second part. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of deep darkness, on them a light has shined. You have multiplied…
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Lessons & Carols: The Third Lesson (A Reflection on Luke 2:25-35)
What does it mean to wait for the consolation from suffering inside of a history that spans generations? Advent hope and longing for the promise yet to be realized, while still we wait and hope through the night, clinging to the promise in our hearts, the flicker of a love that reminds us—no matter the…
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Advent. Day 3: Elizabeth. “Bearing New Things”
Note: This post originally appeared as a part of Colonial Church’s 2018 Advent Devotional Series. I finalized the edits for it on the night that my baby quit having a heartbeat…I got home around 10pm to discover that I, at 9.5 weeks pregnant, was bleeding and we ended up losing the baby. The profound nature…
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To love (eros) One’s Self
An opening invocation I gave at the “Love On” Event on November 11, 2018 “LOVE ON,” dreamed into being by Kelsey Kreider Starrs and friends, was a space to experience the healing presence of love in a variety of ways. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion…
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A Story of G: The Candle Burning
Note: This was written at a conference I went to called Sage-ing. It’s about aging with wisdom, and incorporating intentional spirituality into this journey. I went out of the generous invitation of a member at Colonial Church as we prayerfully consider what it would look like to start an “Act III” ministry. During the conference I went to…
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Wrestle with the Tensions in God’s Word and World (A Sermon on Acts 10:9-22)
This sermon was given at Colonial Church of Edina on Sunday, October 14, 2018. 9 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell…
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Writing for a Storm: Six Moments of Grief and Resistance
Moment I I watch the short videos on my Weather Channel app– I watch them in bed by the glow of my phone at night, barely audible so as to not wake my sleeping partner (Perhaps you too know the ones). Fires. Hurricanes. I huddle there, curled up into myself, much as I did on…
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Showing Up in the Arena (A Summary of Camp Pyro)
This sermon was a quick summary of the week I got to spend with the students at Camp Pyro. Given at Colonial Church on August 12, 2018. For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them, to one he gave five talents, to another…
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Breathe Out (A Sermon on II Corinthians 5:16-21)
Preached at Colonial Church on June 17, 2018. From now on therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So, if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation. Everything old…
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Breathe In (A Sermon on Joshua 1:7-9)
Preached at Colonial Church on June 10, 2018. Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left so that you may be successful wherever you go. This book of…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 