Hummelstown UCC Podcast

Mark 12:38-44; Psalm 146; Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17 “The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by howlittle.” Sherrilyn Kenyon

Mark 12:28-34; Psalm 146: Praise for God’s Help; Ruth 1:1-18 "The child in each of us knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was or homeas it should have been. Paradise is one’s own place, one’s own people, one’s ownworld, knowing and known, perhaps even loving and loved. Yet every child Is castfrom paradise— Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Intovast, ongoing cha...

Mark 10:17-31; Psalm 22:1-15; Job 1: 1, 2:1-10, 23:1-9, 16-17 “We are a product of the immense torque that propels this universe. We are not individuals but a great accumulation of all that lived before.” Tanya Tagaq

MARK 10:13-16; ACTS 2:42-47; ISAIAH 55 “When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life." Maya Angelou

Mark 9:38-50; Esther 7:1-6; 9-10, 9:20-22; Psalm 124: Thanksgiving for Israel’s Deliverance “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” -James Baldwin

Mark 9:33-37; James 3:13-4:3; Psalm 1; Proverbs 31:10-31: Ode to a Woman of Strength “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” Angela Davis

Mark 8:27-30, 34-38; Psalm 19: God’s Glory in Creation and the Law;Proverbs 1:20-33: The Call of Wisdom “The street is a river of life and I wade into it with a deep respect.” Bob Dylan

Psalm 125: The Security of God’s People; James 2:1-10, 14-17; Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and so you float." -Alan Watts

Mark 7:1-2, 5-8, 22-23; James 1:19-27; Song of Songs 2:8-13: Springtime Rhapsody Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. -Rumi

John 6:60-69; Psalm 84:The Joy of Worship in the Temple; 1 Kings 8:22-30, 41-43 A Christian is the dwelling place of the living God. He created me, he chose me, He came to dwell in me, because he wanted me. Now that you have known how much God is in love with you it is but natural that you spend the rest of your life radiating that love. -Mother Teresa

John 6:51; Proverbs 9:1-6; 1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Praise for God’s Wonderful Works Praise the Lord! I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. Full of honor and majesty is God’s work, and God’s righteousness endures forever. God has gained renown by wonderful deeds; th...

Psalm 130: Waiting for Divine Redemption: A Song of Ascents; 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33; Ephesians 4:25-5:2 We light this flame to remind us: love is the center. As we grow and connect, mature and deepen: love remains the center. When the light of truth burns all else away: love remains. -Eric Hepburn

Psalm 145:10-18; 2 Samuel 11-12 “Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.” -Lauryn Hill

Mark 6:30-34; Ephesians 2:1-22; 2 Samuel 7:1-14 “Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.” -Pope Leto I

Psalm 24: Entrance into the Temple. Of David; 2 Samuel 6:1-5; 12-19 “The ordinary world really is capable of hosting the infinite being.” -Rev. Richard Lischer

Leviticus 19:18; 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 "A life without love is like a year without summer." -Swedish Proverb

Selections of1 Samuel 20& 31, 2 Samuel 1; Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24; Psalm 30: Thanksgiving for Recovery from Grave Illness: A Song at the dedication of the temple. Of David. "If you're not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning." -Harvey Milk

Mark 4:35-41; 2 Corinthians 6:2-11; Selections of 1 Samuel 17:1-18:16 "We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That’s okay." - Laverne Cox

Mark 4:26-34; Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15; 1 SAMUEL 15:34-16:13 “Your gifts, leadership, purpose—none of it is about you. Instead, a life of significance is about serving others. It’s about guiding those who need your talents—those gifts, that leadership, and purpose.” -Kevin Hall

“Rebirth” Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson; John 17:21-23  “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” -Jacqueline Woodson

Mark 2:23-3:6; Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18 The Inescapable God; 1 Samuel 3:1-10; 2 Corinthians 4:5-10  “Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or a...

“Wonder then is a force of liberation, it makes sense of what our souls inherently know we were meant for. Every mundane glimpse is salve on a wound, instructions for how to set the bone right again. If you really want to get free, find God on the subway, find God in the soap bubble. Me, I meet God in the taste of my grandmas chicken, I hear God in the raspy leather of Nina Simone’s voice, I see t...

“inheritance”  “ours is no solitary journey we are invited to travel accompanied by generations calling us into our deeper selves whispering to us of our wisdom and strength” -Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; John 15:26-27

“While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.” -Rasheed Ogunlaru Psalm 1; Acts 1:15-17,20-26; 

John 10:11-18; Psalm 23 (CEV); Acts 4:5-12 Lucille Clifton, from “won’t you celebrate with me” “what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand;”