Category: Jesus
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“Into Your Hands” (A Maundy Thursday Sermon on Luke 23:44-49)
Sermon given on Maundy Thursday 2019 at Colonial Church. It has been edited. 44 It was about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two, 46 and Jesus uttered a loud cry…
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Blessing the Dust (An Ash Wednesday Reflection on II Corinthians 5:20-6:10)
Given at Colonial Church on Ash Wednesday March 6, 2019. 5:20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the…
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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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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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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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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. 