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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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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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On Taking Back Our Power
The original version of this post appeared on Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. You can access the text on their website or learn more about their work. I recently had the opportunity to preach at a local community of faith and I chose to talk about when Jesus met the woman at the well. Jesus…
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In Memory of “G”: Joey Elaine Stahlberg 1934-2017
Joey Stahlberg (Klopp) of Minneapolis December 8, 1934- April 17, 2017- Eternally 51 Memorial Service: June 1, 2017 at First Covenant Minneapolis in the Sanctuary at 5:30pm More info about the service is available online Joey is celebrated by her friends and family and is survived by: her brother Kent Klopp, his spouse, Kathy, and their…
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Map on a Wall
This fall I’ve taught the Mentored Leadership Development Sequence for Bethel Seminary. Each week (well just about each week), I write up a reflection that invites students to continue to develop and press into the formational work and invitations of the course. And though I haven’t shared other reflections, I wanted to share my final…
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“I’m Not Ready to Make Nice”: Reflections on the Inward Journey
Given for chapel at United Seminary on November 17, 2016 in the wake of the 2016 election. Three pieces were read before the sermon: “For the Unknown Self” by John O’Donohue Proverbs 4:20-27 “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou In the spring of 2003 I was enrolled in a course at the University…
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Living in the Face of Fear
This spring I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of fear in our lives. One particular insight that has stayed with me is found in Adrian McFarlane’s text A Grammar of Fear and Evil (McFarlane, Adrian Anthony. A Grammar of Fear and Evil: A Husserlian-Wittgensteinian Hermeneutic. New York: P. Lang, 1996.). The section that has…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 