The Rev. Alissa Newton
text: Matthew 21:1-11

"Holy Week gives us the opportunity to teach our bodies how to follow Jesus. So that after practicing staying faithful to our beloved friend here, we are able to recognize the opportunities to do that same work, out there."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Ezekiel 37:1-14 & John 11:1-45

"Even on Holy Saturday hope waits, even on Holy Saturday there is something to hope for.  Humanity has done its darkest most violent act, we killed the light of the world.  And God’s says, this is not what will define you, instead what will define you is this knowing, death has no power over God.   You can hold on to hope, if you can push past the fog, if you be still and listen for the rattling, you will know that in God’s kingdom, even dry bones can live. "

We hope you will join us in walking towards the cross with Jesus this Holy Week and celebrating in his resurrection.  Holy Week begins on April 2nd and ends with Easter on Sunday, April 9th.  Listen here to learn more about Holy Week and how we embody these services at St. Columba's!

The Rev. Alissa Newton
text: John 9

"I bet that I am not the only person in this room that has had a remarkable experience of God at some point in your life. And I bet I am not the only person who doubted that experience almost immediately."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: John 4:5-42


"Jesus comes to her from a place of vulnerability. And I love that she calls him on it, she names his lack of a bucket to get water. They both recognize that in this moment he needs her. Jesus does not come in and say I am God bow down to me, instead he comes as a tired and thirsty Jewish man without a bucket to get water, he comes to humanity in a place of real human need. Jesus comes vulnerable but then he speaks of gifts and truths that are more powerful than any earthly need, more powerful than even food and water, which sustains all people regardless of race, class, or gender."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: John 3:1-17

"Besides, of course the bumper sticker, one of the most influential things to help me out of my existential crisis, was the book on On Religion by John Caputo.  The main premise of the book claims that it is not in fully coming to know someone that allows us to love them, but love is actually the desire to know more.  Caputo says, we never fully know ourselves, how can we expect to ever fully know God or anyone in our lives for that matter.  The second we think we know ourselves, our friends, a partner, a child, or God, is the second we put them in a box they cannot get out of. The second we actually stop being able to know and see the fullness of who they are." Listen now!

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The Rev Alissa Newton
text: Matthew 4:1-11

"At every one of these moments Jesus chooses for, and with, us. It's a great transition from the Season after Epiphany when we are all about Jesus being incarnated to this moment where Jesus actually chooses his incarnation. He chooses not to be different and apart from us. In the face of hunger and danger and coercive power Jesus chooses to be human. To be for us."

The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Joel 2:1-2,12-17

"What part of your story, your body, your life, needs God to tell you - “I trust you on your journey.”  Because the more you trust yourself the easier it will be to come together with God, to hear God’s compassionate voice and find healing.  The more you trust yourself, the quieter those negative voices will be that don’t come from God.  The quieter those voices are, the easier it will be to hear the whisperings from God that say, “you are enough. You are my beloved whom I am well pleased.”  All else has been washed away. 

May this be our Lenten journey - returning to this voice."

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Martin Pommerenke
Texts: Matthew 17:1-9 & 2 Peter 1:16-21

"Even though God is beyond all thought and description, God still works wonders in this world. Holy encounters happen in the ordinary things of life, yes -  but also in mystical experiences. Not those of long ago, but even right now."  Listen now!