Hummelstown UCC Podcast

MARK 13:1-8; 1 Samuel 1:4-20, 2:1-10; 

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

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