The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Luke 3:1-6

"Think about this - if you know the person who drives you craziest in this community, belongs, then you may start to wonder if your version of crazy is welcome here too.

This is why we always seek a wider still approach - my prayer is that this whispers to everyone - as parts of you get revealed, as you worry maybe I talked too much or not enough, or did my crazy just come out, that you would hear whispers from the Holy Spirit, wider still.  Even you.  Even them.  And if them, then you too. "

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Mark 13:1-8

"Remember apocalypse means revelation.  Maybe we need both - an apocalyptic dooms day imagination and an eschatological hope-filled imagination - so we can both speak to the current reality that we are experiencing, while still imagining and demanding a different way together that all point towards God's promises and God's Kingdom that is here and now."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 & Mark 12:38-44

"We need a new ending, to this old song, we need to believe the people and we need to be the people, who can see the world how it could be, despite of the way that it is."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Mark 10:17-31

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Mark 10:2-16
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The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: 2 Samuel 11:1-15 & John 6:1-21

"Where the crowd only say 5 loaves and two fish, Jesus saw food to feed thousands. 

This way of being in the world is not for us to judge others who have less, but instead to look around at your life and wonder- where do you see scarcity where Jesus sees abundance?  This is our question this morning.  Where do you see scarcity in your own life, where Jesus sees abundance?

How do we dislodge ourselves from this scarcity mentality that leads us to a mindset of competition, consumerism, and ultimately exhaustion.  How do we move towards the abundance of God that leads to freedom and new life?"

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The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey 
Texts: 1 John 4:7-21 & John 15:1-8

"We are an organ,  we are a puzzle, we are the branches and Jesus is the vine.

When we lose sight of this truth we can’t put the puzzle together, we tend to the wrong part of our skin, and our branch withers. 

We are all the branches on the same vine and we only thrive in this world when we remember this truth. 

When we separate ourselves from the vine and the branches we lose our connection to God and one another, and we can’t survive, we wither and die. 

But have no fear, as our first John passage reminded us this morning - there is no fear in love - this is not the end.  

It’s Easter after all - we know death is not the end of any story that God is a apart of. 

Grace abounds. 

The vine is always being pruned, there are always new branches forming and new fruit on this vine that God tends.  

There is always a place for you on the vine. 

All we have to do is dare to see all the branches around us as part of us, connected to the same vine, this is when we bear fruit. "

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: John 20:1-18

"Jesus overcame death to save the world, to create a new cosmic order, to invite us into new way of being. 

And what does this new cosmic order look like? Jesus invites us into a world where a woman is the first to witness the resurrection. This is the new world that Jesus has died for.  

A world where the ones who were told they have no voice, cannot be trusted, and who are stripped of their power, 

find they hold power, 

they are trust worthy, 

and they have something to say that everyone needs to hear. 

This is the new order that Jesus sets before us.  And every day we stand at a threshold, 

do we move towards this hope, 

do we let Jesus defy all of our expectations, where we expect to see death, do we allow ourselves to be open to new life. "