Pocketful of Grace

Grace Lutheran Church

A weekly discussion featuring Bible lessons and prayer for the upcoming Sunday, prayer and time to hear, grow and be transformed by God's word for us. Hungry for more? Visit our website, www.glcpa.org for sermons and worship resources and our Faith Formation website, www.glcfaithformation.org for faith formation resources for all ages! read less
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Learning To...Be Amazed
Apr 1 2024
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 are  "Learning to Be Amazed" as we join the women who show up at the tomb of Jesus expecting to grieve but are met with astounding news- Christ is Risen! Have you ver heard something that seemed too big to take in even when it was good news? Or maybe a burden was rolled away and it seems too good to be true. Or maybe like Peter there is a place where you wish you could have a "re-do." Wherever you have been or hope to be amazed, Jesus' story with us continues. Let's keep learning and rejoicing together!Our in person Bible study at Grace resumes on APRIL 3RD  and stay tuned for another podcast series in the fall for Advent.  Today's Scripture: Mark 16:1-8Today's Music: "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today"- Thomas Keesecker's setting of Jesus Christ is Risen Today, from Easter Hope, was recorded with Adam H. Smith on piano for worship use for Grace Lutheran Church, State College, PA.  Copyright (c) 2020 Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP), a division of MorningStar Music Publishers. Non-commercial recording made available with permission from MorningStar, March, 2022.  Streamed with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-700989. All rights reserved."Easter Medley for Flutes"- This composition by Laurel Sanders features three familiar public domain tunes: O filii et et filiae, Hyfrydol, and Puer nobis. Originally intended as an onsite greeting on Easter Sunday 2020 in our main entrance and intended to be played by flute, clarinet and cello, it was subsequently rewritten for two C flutes and bass flute, as you will hear in this recording.To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.
Christmas with Grace and Friends, 2023
Dec 26 2023
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, Director2. I Saw Three Ships  (Anna M. DeFoe). MUSIC: Anna M. DeFoe. TEXT: William Sandys (1833; public domain). © St. James Music Press, 2010. Streamed with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.3. Still, Still, Still (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Still, Still, Still from A Lyric Noel. Austrian Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael. © 2003 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (thewhistletones.com).4. Good King Wenceslas (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Good King Wenceslas from A Renaissance Noel, English Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael. © 2001 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (thewhistletones.com).5. ‘Star Carol’ by John Rutter. © Oxford University Press 1972. Licensed by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. 6. Von Himmel hoch, da komm'ich her (Johann Pachelbel), P.52 from Orgelkompositionen II (Editor: Max Seiffert). Publisher: Breitkopf and Härtel (1903). Public Domain.7.  Mary Had a Baby, John Carter's setting of the traditional Spiritual. Laurel Sanders (flute) and Cynthia Mills (piano) for Grace Lutheran Church with permission from the publisher, Beckenhorst Press (https://www.beckenhorstpress.com).  © Copyright 2010 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc. All rights reserved.  Used with permission. ONE LICENSE #A-700989.8. Joy on Earth Now Appearing  (Charles H. Giffen). MUSIC: Traditional Ukrainian Carol; Charles H. Giffen. WORDS: Traditional Ukrainian; translation by Charles H. Giffen. Copyright © 1973 (translation), 1992, 2004, 2019, 2022 (music) by Charles Giffen. Music available at www.cpdll.org. Used with permission of Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en. All other rights reserved. 9. Lullaby for the Sleeping Savior  (Robert J. Powell). MUSIC: Robert J. Powell. WORDS: Beverly Easterling. © St. James Music Press 2010. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.10.  A Child is Born  (Samuel Scheidt). MUSIC: Samuel Scheidt from Cantiones Sacrae Octo Vocum, arr. for four voices by Mark Schweizer. © St. James Music Press 2010. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.11. The Holy and the Ivy  (arr. Richard Shephard). MUSIC: Traditional English; setting by Richard Shephard.  © St. James Music Press, 2010, www.sjmp.com. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.12. "Christmas Medley for Four Flutes," arr. Laurel Sanders includes:  Es ist ein Ros, Warum sollt ich, and O Sanctissima (Lo, How a Rose; All My Heart Again Rejoices; and O, How Joyful). Permission to stream this music granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-700989.13. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella from A Lyric Noel. French Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael, © 2003 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (" rel="nofollow">To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.
"Rejoice!" A Christmas podcast
Dec 24 2023
"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 more about Grace Lutheran Church, visit https://www.glcpa.org/Additional resources: For Jan Richardson's art, blessings and Women's Christmas, visit https://www.janrichardson.comToday's music: "Infant Holy," This original arrangement of the public domain tune, known by English speakers as "Infant Holy," was composed by Laurel Sanders for solo voice, piano, and handbells as part of virtual Christmas celebrations at Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA."Mary Had a Baby," John Carter's setting of the traditional Spiritual "Mary Had a Baby" is recorded here by Laurel Sanders (flute) and Cynthia Mills (piano) for Grace Lutheran Church with permission from the publisher, Beckenhorst Press (https://www.beckenhorstpress.com).  © Copyright 2010 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc. All rights reserved.  Used with permission. ONE LICENSE #A-700989.Permission to stream this music granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-700989.Worship resources from www.sundaysandseasons.com, copyright 2023, Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Used with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #20807​. Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream obtained from ONE LICENSE with license ##A-700989. All rights reserved.To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.
"Breathe" An Advent Devotion
Dec 18 2023
"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 life from the dawn of creation, through the prophets and through Jesus, our long awaited. Emmanuel. We hear Zechariah's breath in a restored voice proclaim good news.  Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA leads a time of reflection, God's word, breathing and prayer to ground ourselves and leave carrying a pocketful of grace for the journey. For more about Grace Lutheran Church, visit https://www.glcpa.org/Additional resources: For more about Breathing In Christ Community, visit https://www.breathinginchrist.comFor Jan Richardson's art, blessings and Women's Christmas, visit https://www.janrichardson.comToday's music: "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," arr. John Carter. This reflective and peaceful setting of the 15th century French melody Veni Emmanuel is beautifully set by John Carter.  This was recorded by Laurel Sanders, flute and Cynthia Mills, piano for use by Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA.  © 2010 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc., www.beckenhorstpress.com.  All rights reserved. Used with permission."Christmas Medley for Four Flutes," arr. Laurel Sanders. This sacred Christmas medley was composed for three C flutes and bass flute by Laurel Sanders and recorded virtually in December 2020.  It includes three tunes:  Es ist ein Ros, Warum sollt ich, and O Sanctissima (Lo, How a Rose; All My Heart Again Rejoices; and O, How Joyful).Permission to stream this music granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-700989.Worship resources from www.sundaysandseasons.com, copyright 2023, Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Used with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #20807​. Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream obtained from ONE LICENSE with license ##A-700989. All rights reserved.To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.
"Wait" Advent podcast
Dec 11 2023
"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 waiting,  between what has been and what is yet to be. How do we wait? We invite you to step away from what is filling our lives, yet unfinished to allow God to speak.  Where do you need God to meet you, to send someone to wait with you? Who might God send you to be with? May our questions become holy conversations and invitations into hope. Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA leads a time of reflection, God's word, breathing and prayer to ground ourselves and leave carrying a pocketful of grace for the journey. For more about Grace Lutheran Church, visit https://www.glcpa.org/Additional resources: For information about the Examen, visit: https://pray-as-you-go.org.Today's music: "Of The Father's Love Begotten," arr. Judy Nishimura. Laurel Sanders, flute.  Used with publisher permission:  Copyright © 2019. ALRY Publications LLC, www.alrypublications.com."Prepare Thyself Zion "(J.S.Bach/ed. and arr. Michael Burkhardt), Laurel Sanders, flute. Permission to stream this music granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-700989.Worship resources from www.sundaysandseasons.com, copyright 2023, Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Used with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #20807​. Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream obtained from ONE LICENSE with license ##A-700989. All rights reserved.To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.
"Making Room" in Advent
Dec 4 2023
"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 our hearts and selves to be placed into God's story? Mary hears she is chosen to bear Jesus in to the world, to make room for new life. We invite you to step away from what is taking up all the space in your life.  As we remember Christ' birth, we  breathe, and make room for Christ, so we can join in God's possibility and encounter God's presence now and hope for the future. Pastor Carolyn Hetrick of Grace Lutheran Church in State College, PA leads a time of reflection, God's words to Mary, breathing and prayer to ground ourselves and leave carrying a pocketful of grace for the journey. For more about Grace Lutheran Church, visit https://www.glcpa.org/Additional resources: "A Liturgy to Mark the Start of the Christmas Season" from by Douglas McKelvey,  https://www.everymomentholy.com/https://www.luthersem.edu/godpause/advent-devotional/Music: Judy Nishimura arrangement of "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," Copyright © 2019, ALRY Publications, LLC.  Available at www.alrypublications.com.  Used with permission from the publisher. Laurel Sanders, flute. Worship resources from www.sundaysandseasons.com, copyright 2023, Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. Used with permission under Augsburg Fortress Liturgies Annual License #20807​. Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream obtained from ONE LICENSE with license ##A-700989. All rights reserved.To learn more about our ministries at Grace Lutheran Church, visit glcpa.org.