Category: Voice
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Finding Rest (A Sermon on Matthew 11:28-30)
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. “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens. And I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you…
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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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To love (eros) One’s Self
An opening invocation I gave at the “Love On” Event on November 11, 2018 “LOVE ON,” dreamed into being by Kelsey Kreider Starrs and friends, was a space to experience the healing presence of love in a variety of ways. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion…
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Writing for a Storm: Six Moments of Grief and Resistance
Moment I I watch the short videos on my Weather Channel app– I watch them in bed by the glow of my phone at night, barely audible so as to not wake my sleeping partner (Perhaps you too know the ones). Fires. Hurricanes. I huddle there, curled up into myself, much as I did on…
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On Keeping Warm Through the Night
Originally featured in “Firelight”, a Newsletter from Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light. Learn more about their work online at: http://mnipl.nationbuilder.com. I’m in the midst of a significant life decision, and in my discernment and processing I’ve been brought face-to-face with the ways in which I was formed to believe that it is my job to carry people and systems—that…
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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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Mother(s)
I wrote this poem on Saturday as a part of the #slamstigma slam poetry close for the conference “Mental Health and the Faith Community’s Response“. The event was publicized as follows: 1 in 5 Americans live with a mental health condition. Many times they are stigmatized, feared and shunned. Others suffer silently, afraid to share their stories…
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On Growing Up an Evangelical Woman
My pastor, Dan Collison, at First Covenant Church in Minneapolis asked if I would share my story of growing up as a female person in the evangelical church…and I wanted to share it with you. You can either read it below, or you can watch a version online. It is my story of navigating the conflicting…
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The Invitation to Reformation
I preached on Sunday at Pacific Lutheran University as a part of my work at Luther Seminary. I was anxious about preaching because of a few reasons: 1) I am not Lutheran and was afraid I’d mess up Lutheran theology; 2) I wanted to do well; 3) I wanted to represent Luther Seminary well; and…
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On Keeping up with the Jones: Wearing Birkenstocks and other Reflections
A little known fact about me: I grew up in poverty. Not the abject kind, but the kind that meant my mom’s income was below the poverty line my entire life (except for maybe one year). The kind where I know what it means to go to a foodshelf; to not have any groceries. The…
Sara Wilhelm Garbers (she/they), M.Div., Ph.D. 