Category: Faith
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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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On Taking Back Our Power
The original version of this post appeared on Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. You can access the text on their website or learn more about their work. I recently had the opportunity to preach at a local community of faith and I chose to talk about when Jesus met the woman at the well. Jesus…
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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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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 