Category: preaching
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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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Breathe In (A Sermon on Joshua 1:7-9)
Preached at Colonial Church on June 10, 2018. Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left so that you may be successful wherever you go. This book of…
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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…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 