Hummelstown UCC Podcast episodes:

• January 05, 20252025-01-05 The Winding Road

  Isaiah 43:16-21; Matthew 2:1-12
  
  BREATH PRAYER
       INHALE: Each twist and turn
            EXHALE: Invites me to follow you.

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• November 24, 20242024-11-24 Growing Together

  Joel 2:21-27; Psalm 126: A Harvest of Joy; 1 Timothy 2:1-5; Matthew 6:25-33
  
  "Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe,even if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a longway from here. Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go. Hold on to my hand,even if someday I'll be gone away from you."
  Crowfroot

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• November 17, 20242024-11-17 My Heart is Overflowing

  MARK 13:1-8; 1 Samuel 1:4-20, 2:1-10; 
  
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• November 10, 20242024-11-10 Lifting up the Unexpected

  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

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• November 03, 20242024-11-03 Love Beyond Origin

  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 change."
  Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents“

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• October 13, 20242024-10-13 Tribulations of Job

  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
  
  

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• October 06, 20242024-10-06 Table Wholeness

  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

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• September 29, 20242024-09-29 Deliverance as History

  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
  
  

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• September 22, 20242024-09-22 Strength in Service

  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

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• September 15, 20242024-09-15 Wise Counsel

  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
  
  

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