Category: Fear
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Being a Resurrection People: Episode #1
During this strange time, one of my greatest locations of localized anxiety has been my concern that people in the community of faith where I am a minister might be feeling particularly isolated and unseen. Thus, I’ve been working collectively with others to offer intentional opportunities for people to connect for worship (via YouTube or…
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Grace Actually Sees (A Sermon on Luke 19:1-10)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on April 19, 2020. You can listen to the sermon below or watch the whole service on YouTube. 1 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2 A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 He was trying to see who Jesus was,…
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Easter Sunrise Audio Experience: Hope Interrupts Death
At Colonial Church where I am a pastor, we typically host a sunrise service. It’s amazing…the group gathered on a hill awaits the morn together. The bagpipes play. A cross is on the hill. And then, like a long awaited miracle, the sun rises and the dawn is reborn. Obviously, in this time of Coronavirus,…
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Good Friday Reflection (Mark 15:40-47)
A reflection given at Colonial Church as a part of the Good Friday Service on April 10, 2020. You can listen below. Or, you can watch the whole service on YouTube. 40 There were also women looking on from a distance; among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and…
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Hope Interrupts Power: A Sermon in the Midst of Coronavirus (Zech. 4:1-7)
A sermon given for Colonial Church during COVID on March 29, 2020 *Note- The text below reflects an edited version of the sermon that was actually shared with the Colonial Church community (it was edited for time). You can watch the whole original sermon on my YouTube page! 1 The angel who talked with me…
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Hope Interrupts (A Sermon on Leviticus 23:1-8)
A sermon given at Colonial Church for Ash Wednesday on February 26, 2020. “The Lord spoke to Moses saying, ‘Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed festivals.’ Six days shall work, be done, but the…
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On Bodies (A Sermon on I Corinthians 12:12-31)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on January 26, 2020. 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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On Being a Bad Neighbor (A Sermon on Genesis 16)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on November 24, 2019. 16 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, 2 and Sarai said to Abram, “You see that the Lord has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I…
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Strangers in the Land (A Sermon on Deuteronomy 10:12-22)
Sermon given at Colonial Church on September 29, 2019. You can listen to the sermon online. 10:12 So now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? Only to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all God’s ways, to love God, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart…
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I Am the True Vine (A Sermon on John 15:1-17)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on August 11, 2019. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes to make it bear more fruit. If you have already been cleansed by the word that…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 