St. Columba's is an Episcopal Church in Kent, WA. Sermons follow the Church calendar and are usually under 15minutes. Engaging, practical, and often social justice focused we aim to help the listener connect with God, understand scripture on a deeper level, and move to act to create a more just world together. Listen and come join us.
This year’s stewardship theme is: We Build Our Home: Staying Human, Needing Connection, Finding God. I know I am not the only one with AI on my mind. I am bringing up AI in my stewardship letter because I see how these questions around the purpose and value of AI continue to reveal to me why church is essential in staying human, embracing our need for connection, and finding God in our everyday lives.......Feel free to listen to the rest of the stewardship letter.
15 Oct 2026
20th Sunday After Pentecost: Refusing the Robe as Resistance
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Matthew 22:15-22 "Maybe the man in our parable that refuses the wedding robe is doing so as an act of resistance. Refusing to fall in line with this violent king. Refusing to pretend that all this violence in normal. A refusal to enjoy a feast with someone who just burned down a city, while you can still smell the smoke. Because in a few short days, after telling this parable, Jesus will be publicly executed by the state. Jesus will bear...
9 Oct 2026
Prayers of the People in the Season After Pentecost in the fall
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27 Sept 2026
18th Sunday After Pentecost: Authority Belongs to the People
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Matthew 21:23-32 "Churches can talk a good game all day long - the Episcopal slogan “All are Welcome” has long been critiqued. Are all truly welcome in our spaces? Is putting up a sign outside our church that says, “All are Welcome” and not doing anything to change the way we see and understand people doing the will of the father? This is why I prefer the slogan we use here, Draw the Circle Wide, Draw it Wider Still. Because it reminds ...
5 Jun 2026
Prayers of the People in the Season After Pentecost
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31 Mar 2026
Palm Sunday: We Build our Hope Together
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Matthew 21:1-11 "I want to tell you that, who Jesus is and what he came to do, he came to fulfill God’s promise that, just like for our crowd today, our hope is never in vain. Their hope and our hope on this day is beautiful, good, and right. Even if we know good Friday is coming. Even though in our lives and at the cross we will mourn, even though people in our lives and actions in this world will break our hearts, even though hope looks foolish, ...
8 Mar 2026
The Third Sunday in Lent: And She was Believed
"She is not afraid or filled with shame by being fully seen, she is set free. May you also know this freedom. She leaves the bucket that represents her security and power over Jesus. May you be released from the material items of this world defining you. She proclaims without hesitation that she encountered the Messiah and this part is important, the people believe her. When you proclaim the truth, may people believe you." The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey John 4:5...
27 Feb 2026
The First Sunday in Lent: Our Easy No
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Matthew 4:1-11
19 Feb 2026
Prayers of the People in the Season of Lent
Listen and pray with us. The Prayers of the People from the St. Columba Prayer Writers Prayed by Vibh Cox
27 Jan 2026
Third Sunday After the Epiphany: Love Over Fear
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Isaiah 9:1-4 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23 Psalm 27:1, 5-13 "This same power that caused Herod to hesitate on killing John, is the same power we are called to use and here is the good news, no one can take this power away from us. Fear can divide and weaken us, but every time we move towards our neighbor with a shared purpose that power is restored to us."
16 Jan 2026
The Prayers of the People During the Season After the Epiphany
Listen and pray with us. The Prayers of the People adapted from Common Worship, Church of England Prayed by Vibh Cox
16 Jan 2026
Prayers of the People for the Christmas Season
Listen and pray with us. The Prayers of the People from Christina Brennan Lee Prayed by Vibh Cox
2 Dec 2025
Advent I: Thin Spaces
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Matthew 3:1-12 "On the first Advent - people expected the Messiah to arrive on a war horse, instead, how does Jesus arrive? well first as a a vulnerable baby, and then as an adult this messiah comes to us on a donkey. He washes our feet and tells us to love our enemies, not a very good warrior. Why then do we think the second time the Messiah comes he is going come in a violent way? We keeping putting the Messiah back on the war horse. W...
24 Nov 2025
Christ the King Sunday: A Different Kind of King
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey Text: Luke 23:33-43 "During Advent we wait for God to arrive in the form of a baby, and on the Christ the King Sunday, we ask the question, what sort of God are waiting for? Who is this God who arrives as a baby and dies on a cross?"
29 Apr 2024
The 5th Sunday of Easter: There is No Fear in Love
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. "
31 Mar 2024
Easter Sunday: Everything has Changed
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. "
8 Mar 2024
Pray with us: Prayers of the People in Lent
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Written by Bishop Geralyn Wolf
29 Jan 2024
The 4th Sunday After the Epiphany: A New Ending to an Old Story
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: Mark 1:21-28
"Every single person and every single story is redeemable. I often struggle to believe this, but I know it is true. And do you know how I know that? Because Jesus says,
Love one another as I have loved you
Forgive others and you will be forgiven
Love your neighbor as yourself
These commands only make sense if you know that people can heal, if you know that every person on this planet has something within them that is worthy of love and forgiveness." Listen to hear more!
14 Jan 2024
The Second Sunday After the Epiphany: Your Body is a Temple (redeemed version)
The Rev. Meghan Mullarkey
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
"Our text todays uses the word fornication, many other translations use the wording sexual immorality instead of fornication, which I find more helpful. And of course what we mean by sexual immorality changes over time. The translator of our text this morning, made a one to one with fornication and sexual immorality - to them sexual immorality was defined as having sex outside of marriage. I would define sexual immorality, as any sexual act that harms others, this could include two people married to each other - examples would be any sexual contact without consent, sexual contact when there is abusive or manipulate power present, or even just an inappropriate power difference - whether that be age or authority.
It is okay if our definition of sexual immorality changes over time -
The important thing to take away from this passage is that sins against the body run deep, because our body is precious to God, because God lives within us, this is what it means for our body to be a temple. "
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