Pocketful of Grace
Join the pastors of Grace Lutheran Church in State College as we try to make sense of faith and life, featuring Bible lessons and prayer and time to grow and be transformed by God's word for us. Hungry for more? Visit our website, www.glcpa.org for sermons and worship resources.
Episodes
164 episodes
And God's Story Continues with You
Do you ever find yourself trying to talk yourself down off a ledge to remember God is with you? What grounds you in difficult times? This is where resurrection gets real. How do we carry forward the gospel into our places of hunger and fear? Th...
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Lord Knows We Could Use Some Peace
Put a bunch of people together in new and challenging times and fear abounds. Does hope? Jesus enters with peace knowing who we are, where we've been and what is possible through him. This is a re-broadcast of part an episode for the 2nd Sunday...
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Journey Through Lent: From Fasting to Feasting
Here we are preparing to enter Holy Week. Journeys are not just about getting from Point A to Point B. We have walked with Jesus and each other and we will be walking still. Today we consider what God showed us in the wilderness, in fears, stre...
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Journey Through Lent: The Blessing of Relationships
We are wired for relationship in the very way we are created. Created in the image of God who created in love. Love is a relationship and our very essence is bound up in God's vision. That vision is blurred at best and fractured at worst, due t...
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Journey Through Lent: Give Me Strength
Jesus wants us to do more than merely acknowledge the difference between reality and importance and truth, he calls us to embrace it. So to day we take on how Jesus see strength. What does that mean for you as a person of faith? Who are the str...
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Journey Through Lent- Still My Fears
When this world makes us fearful, we can believe no one else will take care of us, or be led into temptation to demonize others even when it isn't true. We can get caught up in a vicious cycle of fear. Allowing God into our pain, to interrupt o...
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Journey Through Lent-Wilderness Times
Our journey in life and in Lent includes walking in the wilderness. What have been the wildernesses in your life? Can we see God offering peace and strength or maybe even unplugging from the distractions? What might God be preparing in yo...
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Journey Through Lent: Preparing for a Good Lent
A Good Lent can change your life. Join us on a journey, traveling with Jesus from wilderness to the cross. When we journey with Jesus, instead of time just marching by, we can experience God more deeply in our midst. We can grow spiritually and...
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Unto Us a Child is Born: Prince of Peace
We are in the final days of the season of Advent, that has led up to the celebration of Jesus’ birth, a time to focus upon waiting, preparing and hoping, as we recall the historic birth of Jesus, and await the return of Christ in the fullness o...
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Season 2024
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Episode 4
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Unto Us a Child is Born: Everlasting Father
We continue in the season of Advent, the weeks leading up to the celebration of Jesus’ birth, a time to focus upon waiting, preparing and hoping, as we recall the historic birth of Jesus, and await the return of Christ in the fullness of time. ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 3
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Unto Us a Child is Born: Mighty God
We are in the season of Advent, the weeks leading up to the celebration of Jesus’ birth, a time to focus upon waiting, preparing and hoping, as we recall the historic birth of Jesus, and await the return of Christ in the fullness of time. We ca...
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Season 2024
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Episode 2
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Unto Us A Child is Born: Wonderful Counselor
We are entering the season of Advent, the weeks leading up to the celebration of Jesus’ birth, a time to focus upon waiting, preparing and hoping, as we recall the historic birth of Jesus, and await the return of Christ in the fullness of time....
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Season 2024
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Episode 1
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Learning To...Be Amazed
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Learning to... Give Ourselves Away- A Lenten Podcast
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Learning to...See- A Lenten Podcast
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Learning To...Love- A Lenten Podcast
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Episode 4
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Learning To...Focus A Lenten Podcast
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Episode 3
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Learning To...Rethink A Lenten Podcast
"Learning To... " is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick and Pastor Scott Schul of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage from scripture, music and reflection before sending you out with grace. Today we ...
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Episode 2
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Learning To...A Lenten Podcast Trusting God
This is the first episode of our series, "Learning To... "available each Monday through April 1, 2024. This episode is led by Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA. Each week features breath prayer, a passage ...
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Episode 1
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Christmas with Grace and Friends, 2023
1. Gabriel's Voice (Ian Higginson). MUSIC: Ian Higginson. TEXT: Carol Gunn. © St. James Music Press. Streamed with permission of St. James Press, License #21540. Grace Lutheran Church of State College choral ensemble. Laurel Sanders, ...
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"Rejoice!" A Christmas podcast
Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA leads a time of treasuring and pondering this season and God's word, breathing and prayer to ground ourselves and leave carrying a pocketful of grace for the journey.For m...
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"Breathe" An Advent Devotion
Breath and life go hand in hand. Taking a moment to catch our breathe and breathe with God's sacred rhythms invites us to step away from where are racing and breathe deeply as we are reminded that throughout Scripture, God breathes and speaks l...
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"Wait" Advent podcast
How do we capture the sacred nature of these weeks we call Advent, to reflect, make space and prepare our hearts and selves to be placed into God's story? This week Mary travels to see Elizabeth as they are both awaiting births. It is a time of...
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"Making Room" in Advent
In these weeks leading up to Christmas, our lives can feel so full we perhaps hope and pray no one asks us to make room for one more thing. How do we capture the sacred nature of these weeks we call Advent, to reflect, make space and prepare ou...
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Mid Week Lenten Worship: "Stars of Night"- Noah and Transformed Hearts
Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA preaching. Worship theme adapted from Easter Vigil Texts by Pastor Karen Rask Behling for Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, Chippewa Falls, WI 2019. Used with permission. ...
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