Category: preaching
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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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Gathered for the Neighborhood (A Sermon on Ephesians 3:1-10 & 14-21)
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. This is the reason that I, Paul, am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles. For surely, you have already…
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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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The Law is Love (A Sermon on Luke 10:25-28)
A sermon given at Colonial Church on December 13, 2020. 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. Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal…
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The Kin-Dom of God (A Sermon on John 15:12-17)
And that is the command we are given: the command to love one another, to lay down our lives, to be friends with all of God’s children, just as God has called and named us friends. No longer are we servants or slaves under some master. No, we are instead invited to follow brother Jesus…
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Freedom: The Kingdom of Jubilee (A Sermon on Leviticus 25:8-17)
So let’s live in this land as a people who are committed to Jubilee, that those who’ve been brought low might be raised up, and that the world might exist in view of a kingdom vision of the God who is the creator and sustainer and bringer of freedom for all of us. Indeed, may…
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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…
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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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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 