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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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04:39

Not of This World

Grace for All ·

2025/02/19

John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom was from this world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” This verse is part of Jesus’ response when questioned by Pilate. We know how the rest of the story goes. We also know that Simon Peter did strike the high priest’s slave and was corrected by Jesus. I understand Simon Peter’s reaction. We often want to take matters into our own hands

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06:27

A Dream Come True

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2025/02/18

Romans 5, verses 3-5 (Majority Standard Bible): We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Our family’s future was drastically changed on Thanksgiving Day, 1951 in Union Grove, Wisconsin. My dad, at age 27, a hired farmhand, headed out to the barn to finish shredding a load of field cornstalks that morning. His father, my Grampa Earl went out to assist. Gramma Evelyn helped Mom with the Thanksgiving feast

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07:04

Keep Your Eyes on Your Own Paper

Grace for All ·

2025/02/17

Matthew 20:1-16 NIV “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, “You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right. So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the

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04:53

What Seek Ye?

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2025/02/16

Matthew 19:23-24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. I don’t know about you, but threading a needle for me has become an act of hope and prayer as I have gotten older. Some days I think I would be as likely to get a camel through the eye of a needle as a thread. But I exaggerate. All

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Scripture Saturday (February 15, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/02/15

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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05:11

Like a Little Child

Grace for All ·

2025/02/14

Matthew 18: 1-5 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me. As I write this, a

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04:38

God’s Love and Ours

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2025/02/13

Forty-three years ago today, a ring was placed on my finger with the inscription 1 John 4:7. The verse reads, Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Papa, what does Beloved mean? Beloved is a very strong or very deep type of love. I might say I love pizza, but I would not want to eat pizza for every meal. I think I would get tired of it after a couple of days. So, beloved is like the way you love Grandma. Exactly, I love her

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06:52

Faith and Protection

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2025/02/12

Psalms 31:23 (NIV) Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him. My family’s world changed on December 23, 1967. Dad and my 15-year-old brother William were out picking corn with our brand new corn picker. The soil was frozen so the rush was on to get done what could be done before it thawed. That fall had been so rainy that no one could get the crops harvested. But it was Christmas. Mom was cooking, and my sister Mary Beth and I, who nine at the time, were

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05:03

The Authority to Bind and Loose

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2025/02/11

Matthew 16:19 (CEB) I’ll give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Anything you fasten on earth will be fastened in heaven. Anything you loosen on earth will be loosened in heaven. In this passage, Jesus gives an astonishing gift: the authority to bind and loose. While God’s sovereignty is unshakable, this gift entrusts us with an active role in interpreting and applying His will. It’s not a call to rigidly follow instructions handed down by others but an invitation into partnership with the Holy

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04:36

Tuck Everlasting

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2025/02/10

Matthew 13:34 The Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” Natalie Babbitt's novel Tuck Everlasting is one of my favorite works of literature. I read it for the first time in sixth grade, and it changed the way I think about many things, most notably the notion of eternal life and the concept of immortality. In the book, the titular family gains their immortality through drinking

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05:15

Confusion and Fragmentation

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2025/02/09

Genesis 11: 5-9 (NIV) But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel — because there the Lord confused the

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Scripture Saturday (February 8, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/02/08

“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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04:22

The Spice in Life

Grace for All ·

2025/02/07

Matthew 13:31-32 He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.” Mustard. A valued seasoning since ancient times. Throw the seeds in the pot or mix then with salt and vinegar, and we create a pungent and flavorful condiment to compliment our meal. Mustard does not

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04:10

Your Will Be Done

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2025/02/06

Matthew 6: 9-10 (NRSV) Pray, then, in this way: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. I have prayed this prayer thousands of times in my lifetime. It is engraved in my brain because of its short phrases and easy rhyme. But how often have I thought of its meaning? What would happen if I lived a life everyday consciously seeking to do God’s will on earth? Recently Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. His long life had many

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04:45

Not Being Stingy

Grace for All ·

2025/02/05

Matthew 20:14-16 (Message Translation) I decided to give to the one who came last the same as you. Can’t I do what I want with my own money? Are you going to get stingy because I am generous?’“ Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first.” The scripture for today is the last part of Jesus’s parable of the owner of the vineyard and the hired workers. The owner, in need of hired labor, goes out several times to recruit people. The last group hired

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06:04

The Gift of Dependence

Grace for All ·

2025/02/04

Matthew 5:3 Happy are people who are hopeless, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. (Common English Bible) Blessed [spiritually prosperous, happy, to be admired] are the poor in spirit [those devoid of spiritual arrogance, those who regard themselves as insignificant], for theirs is the kingdom of heaven [both now and forever]. (Amplified Bible) God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdom of heaven! (Contemporary English Version) You’re blessed when you’re at

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05:37

A Light Has Dawned

Grace for All ·

2025/02/03

Matthew 4:16-18 (NIV) “the people living in darkness have seen a great light. On those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” ¹⁷ From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is near.” ¹⁸ As Jesus was walking beside the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother, Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.” Sometimes we are those people living in darkness – a speeding truck deliberately

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06:22

From Regrets to Resolutions

Grace for All ·

2025/02/02

II Timothy 4: 6-8 As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me, but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing. Bonnie Ware spent a number of years as a palliative care nurse. She cared for

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Scripture Saturday (February 1, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/02/01

Welcome to the Saturday episode of the Grace for All podcast. Thank you for joining us today. Saturday is a special time when we take a few moments to review the scriptures that we have cited in the episodes this week. If you missed any of those episodes, you might want to consider listening to them today. And even if you heard them all, there may be one that you might want to listen to again. We hope that each of these scriptures and podcasts will bring you a full measure of joy, peace, and love

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05:00

Be anxious for nothing

Grace for All ·

2025/01/31

On January 1, we began our podcast for the year 2025 with Philippians 4:6 and today we find a lovely set of bookends, using that same verse to close out the first month of our shiny new year. Our scripture for today is Philippians 4:6-7. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. This is such beautiful

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