Category: Fear
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Annual Report: Gestational Promise, Liminality, and Possibility
Note: this was submitted as a part of the annual report to the congregation for Colonial Church as a part of our Annual Meeting for 2021. What a year this has been! Last year at our annual meeting the Comcast internet service went down…we were in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, still in the…
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Finding Rest (A Sermon on Matthew 11:28-30)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on February 14, 2021. You can listen to the sermon below or you can watch the Alternative or Traditional service on YouTube. You can also watch the Kids’ Sermon HERE. “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens. And I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you…
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Turning to One Another (A Sermon on
A sermon given at Colonial Church on March 21, 2021. You can listen to the sermon below or you can watch the Alternative or Traditional service on YouTube. You can also watch the Kids’ Sermon HERE. When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the son of man has been glorified and God has been glorified in him. If God…
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Turning to the Wilderness (A Sermon on Luke 4:1-10)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on February 28, 2021. You can listen to the sermon below or you can watch the Alternative or Traditional service on YouTube. You can also watch the Kids’ Sermon HERE. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he…
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Lessons & Carols: The 5th Lesson (John 1:1-14)
A lesson given at Colonial Church as a part of the annual “Lessons and Carols” service. Shared on December 20, 2020. You can watch the service below or directly on YouTube. In the beginning was the Word; the Word was in God’s presence, and the Word was God. The Word was present to God from the beginning. Through the Word all…
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A Night to Shine: Unmasking Mental Health
A talk given for Lake Region Hospital’s Fundraising Gala: “A Night to Shine: Unmasking Mental Health” on November 21, 2020, Proceeds for the event went in large part to the Jordan Matthew Tommerdahl Scholarship Fund. You can donate to the fund here. My talk was in honor of in in love towards Jordan Matthew Tommerdahl: 12/9/1992…
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Be The Church #6: Stand Your Ground- Black Bodies & the Justice of God
This fall, our podcast series “Be the Church” has featured 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. So in this FINAL installment of…
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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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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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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 