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Grace for All

Jim Stovall, Greta Smith, First United Methodist Church, Maryville, TN

"Grace for All" is a daily devotional podcast from the laity of First United Methodist Church in Maryville, Tennessee. Each episode presents a verse of scripture and a brief reflection on that verse written and recorded by members of our church. These short episodes are meant to inspire you and help you in your journey of understanding and faith. We believe the central message of Jesus is one of grace. Grace for all human beings. Grace for All is a podcast ministry of First United Methodist

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05:22

The Way

Grace for All ·

2025/10/17

John 14:6 I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.It can’t be much clearer than that! We all need to set our sights on Jesus to listen to and apply all He had to say.This world is filled with noise in every available electronic form and beyond. It is necessary to tune it out and focus on the truth. The truth that is found through Jesus!Don’t be distracted by the misinformation and dysinformation that we can easily be bombarded with. Open up that Bible and

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04:27

Great is Thy Faithfulness

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2025/10/16

Lamentations 3:22-25The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,his mercies never come to an end;they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness.“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,“therefore I will hope in him.”The Lord is good to those who wait for him,to the soul that seeks him.Many of you, upon hearing these verses, will recall the hymn, “Great is Thy Faithfulness.” It is a hymn that celebrates God’s steadfast love and grace. While the hymn may have taken its chorus from these verses,

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05:35

Motivate

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2025/10/15

1 Thessalonians 5:11 Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.Every year, Pastor Sarah makes star words for our congregation. They are simple wooden stars with a word printed on them that is to be our focus word for the year. My late wife Barbara got her very first star word in January 2024, and it was Motivate. She asked me to clarify with Sarah that this could be the same as nagging. Throughout that year, we had lots of fun with that. She "motivated"

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05:31

The Lord's Prayer

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2025/10/14

Ralphine Hood: "God has been urging me to write about prayer. That should be easy for me since I am such a strong believer in prayer. Our Lord's prayer was taught to the Disciples and to us." Matthew 6:9-13 Our Father in heavenHallowed be Your nameYour kingdom comeYour will be doneOn earth as it is in heavenGive us this day our daily breadAnd forgive us our debts,As we forgive our debtorsAnd do not lead us intoTemptation,But deliver us from the evil oneFor Yours is the kingdom and thePower and the

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05:43

Not to Worry

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2025/10/13

Matthew 6:34 So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Square in the center of the Sermon on the Mount, in the last verse of the sixth chapter of Matthew’s gospel, Jesus gives us this advice: don’t worry about whatever has you down. A few verses earlier, in verse 27, he poses this related challenge: “And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?”There is so much in the Sermon on the Mount on which I feel

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06:10

We are All the Same Under the Skin

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2025/10/12

2 Corinthians 4:16-5:1 (NRSV) So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen, for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. In the 1980s, when we lived in Cedar Rapids, IA, I volunteered in an oral history project. Community volunteers

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03:55

Scripture Saturday (October 11, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/10/11

Thank you for joining us for today's Grace for All podcast. On Saturdays, we pause for a few moments to look back on our week and to review the scriptures that we have used in our podcast. We encourage you, after listening to this episode, to go back and listen to the episodes you missed, or to review the ones that were particularly meaningful for you. We trust that the thoughts that we have shared with you this week have provided a full portion of the joy, peace, and love of Jesus Christ. Now,

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05:33

Be Still and Know

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2025/10/10

Psalm 46:10 (NIV)Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. I’m a big fan of the movie Groundhog Day. I’ve seen it a couple of dozen times, and it is a tradition in our house to watch it on February 2nd every year. In the movie, weatherman Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, gets stuck reliving the same day over and over again in the small Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney, the home of the famous groundhog “Punxsutawney Phil.” At first,

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04:37

Crucified with Christ

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2025/10/09

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.Repeatedly throughout my Christian walk, I have considered the question, “What does it mean to be crucified with Christ?”Surrender—of my life, of my will—is central to my understanding of what it means to be a Christ-follower. When I chose to follow Jesus, I decided to give myself to Jesus. Following

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04:45

Let Go and Let God - A Season of Surrender

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2025/10/08

Welcome to the Grace for All podcast. Our theme for this month is Let Go and Let God - A Season of Surrender. Normally, I would begin by sharing today’s verse of scripture and then a short devotion; however, I believe today’s format should be story first and then scripture because that is exactly how it happened.I will begin the story by saying the theme of Let Go and Let God - A Season of Surrender is both the worst title for this story….and the perfect title. Surrender? Not a chance! I was an Air

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04:54

Mary, How Does Your Garden Grow?

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2025/10/07

John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. If a seed does not germinate, it bears no fruit. It has been formed to create, yet it does not fulfill that destiny. It is squandered. It wastes away, dried up and useless. What a loss!We also must realize that the majority of seeds in the history of creation have been planted by the wind, birds, and other animals. They have germinated and gone on to

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05:15

A Time for Everything

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2025/10/06

Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.I suppose we didn’t study Ecclesiastes in my childhood Sunday school classes because, for a long time, I thought this verse, and the examples of opposite human experiences (life and death, planting and reaping, weeping and laughing, love and hate, war and peace, and others) in the following eight verses, were the lyrics to a song. And they are! Singer and activist Paul Seeger wrote the song “Turn, Turn, Turn”

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04:30

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

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2025/10/05

Matthew 6:34Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.There are several songs in popular movie musicals that refer to the hope and promises of tomorrow. Perhaps one of the most popular examples of this is the song “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow” from the musical Annie.In the musical, the orphan Annie sings this song after she escapes the orphanage in an attempt to find her parents, after she and the other girls residing in

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04:43

Scripture Saturday (October 4, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/10/04

You are listening to Grace for All, a daily devotional podcast produced by the people of First United Methodist Church in Maryville, Tennessee.This is Scripture Saturday, a time when we pause and reflect on the scriptures we have read throughout the week. If you missed any of our devotionals on these passages, you can find them on our website at 1stChurch.org or wherever you get your podcasts.Now, we invite you to listen and receive Grace. Welcome and thank you for joining us. Grace for All is a

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06:58

Seasons

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2025/10/03

Ecclesiastes 3:1(NLT) For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.There are different seasons in our lives. When I was a young boy, I thought as a young boy. All I could think about was receiving my long list of wants. I believed that all would be right with the world if only I had a certain toy or bike. Birthday and Christmas gifts? Did they make my life more fulfilling? Actually, they only provided a short-lived, very brief, intense excitement. We humans do pray for a

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05:59

The Radical Ordinary

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2025/10/02

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12Now about your love for one another, we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God's family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be

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06:58

Pray and Rest in Jesus

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2025/10/01

Philippians 4:6-7 (the Living Bible) Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don’t forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God‘s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. The constant drone of awful information can cause us to feel afraid, worried, and overwhelmed. Reports fill our eyes and ears

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06:09

Equality in God

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2025/09/30

Romans 3:23-24 …since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus…One doesn’t have to be a performer to have heard the advice for someone who is nervous to go on stage or speak or perform in front of a crowd: just imagine everyone in the audience in their underwear (or sometimes, it’s even “imagine them naked”). I think that I first heard that advice on a cartoon as a child, but I’m sure that it was

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05:03

The Mind of Christ

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2025/09/29

Philippians 2:3-8Don't do anything for selfish purposes, but with humility think of others as better than yourselves. Instead of each person watching out for their own good, watch out for what is better for others. Adopt the attitude that was in Christ Jesus: Though he was in the form of God, he did not consider being equal with God something to exploit. But he emptied himself by taking the form of a slave and by becoming like human beings. When he found himself in the form of a human, he humbled

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03:55

Grace, Doubt, and Resurrection Power

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2025/09/28

John 20:29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believed." I am so grateful that God’s grace is bigger than my doubt. In my life, I have been blessed to witness numerous things I would consider miracles, things that by the odds never should have happened. Some have been big—life-changing. Others have been small; perhaps no one even noticed but me. Each, an unexpected gift. Undeserved favor. Grace. And yet… Doubt clouds my

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