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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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03:40

Go and Do

Grace for All ·

2025/09/08

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.Grace is the rock upon which Christian life is built and sustained. Through faith, grace transforms us so that good works naturally follow.In James 2:17, we find that “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by

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05:14

Finding Strength in the Vine

Grace for All ·

2025/09/07

John 15:5I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.My father, like many men of his generation, grew up working on his family’s farm. His father, my grandfather, had two jobs: he was a stationmaster at various train stations throughout East Tennessee, and he farmed. It wasn’t a huge farm, but he produced enough to sell or share with others. My dad recalled working alongside his father and learning how to

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03:55

Scripture Saturday (September 6, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/09/06

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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05:44

Together in Faith and Good Works

Grace for All ·

2025/09/05

Hebrews 10:24 (ESV) And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. My objective today is to take this simple, straightforward message and complicate it to the point that you will never forget it. Now you might be saying, “What could possibly be hard about the phrase, Let us consider how to stir up one another? '” If you ask my wife, this is very clear; to stir is a cooking term. Stirring helps dissolve particles like sugar or salt into a solvent like water. Stirring creates a

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07:19

Whatever you did for the least of these you did for me

Grace for All ·

2025/09/04

Matthew 25:40 The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me! Just before saying these words, Jesus had told the parable of the sheep and the goats. In Chapter 24 and 25 of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus is sitting alone with his disciples on the Mt. of Olives, telling them of the time to come – a time in the future when the Temple would be destroyed, nation would rise against nation, famines and earthquakes would be in various

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03:44

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

Grace for All ·

2025/09/03

Galatians 6:9 (NIV)Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the phrase “good things come to those who wait.” I feel this also goes hand in hand with the phrase “patience is a virtue.” It can often be exhausting to feel that you are constantly doing good towards others to get nothing in return; on the contrary, there are some cases where doing charitable acts towards others paves the way for more acts to

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06:27

The Comfort of a Rock

Grace for All ·

2025/09/02

Numbers 20:8 (NIV): Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes, and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink. Psalm 94:22 (NIV)But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge. God gave special significance to the rock when he commanded Moses to strike a rock in the desert and provide water for the Israelites. In many

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05:23

Stirring Each Other

Grace for All ·

2025/09/01

Hebrews 10:24 (NRSV)And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds. Picture something with me. Imagine you're stirring a pot of soup on the stove. You're not just mindlessly moving that spoon around - you're being intentional, making sure nothing sticks to the bottom, bringing up the flavors from the depths. That word "provoke" in our verse? In the original Greek, it's paroxysmos - it's where we get our word "paroxysm." It means to stir up, to incite, to sharpen like iron

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04:06

Stirring the Pot

Grace for All ·

2025/08/31

Proverbs 15:18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, while one who is patient calms a quarrel. When I read this verse, I immediately think about my grandmother, who was a master at using Southern phrases to get a point across. “ Stirring the pot” was one of her favorites and it took me a while as a child to figure out exactly what she meant when she said it. When you Google this phrase, it says in a social context it refers to intentionally creating or escalating conflict, drama, or tension,

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04:03

Scripture Saturday (August 30, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/08/30

Grace for All is 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 daily devotional

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05:47

Patience

Grace for All ·

2025/08/29

Ephesians 4:2 (NLT)Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.Well, well……. Patience is an interesting concept. It is about how we handle adversity, delays, unpleasant circumstances, and trouble. Our first thought, at least mine, is how often I am caught in traffic and am irritated with the slow or distracted driver in front of me. That driver is keeping me from my destination for no obvious reason. In the end, I might be

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04:30

A Warm Hug

Grace for All ·

2025/08/28

Nehemiah 8:10 Nehemiah said, “Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” I have, unfortunately, heard this verse quoted by well-meaning people as they apologize for their tears at the loss of one they loved. They will say, “I know I shouldn’t grieve, for the joy of the Lord is my strength.” When you understand the setting in which Nehemiah spoke these words, you

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04:49

Our Loving Savior

Grace for All ·

2025/08/27

Isaiah 41: 13For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you." Have you ever thought about how much God loves us? I do think about His love often, especially since my husband passed away and I no longer have his support and have to make all decisions myself. This verse of scripture was a comfort to me, knowing God would be walking beside me, holding my hand and leading me. God does lead us when we feel alone, when we have lost a loved one,

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05:13

Be Prepared

Grace for All ·

2025/08/26

1 Peter 3:15-16 (ESV) But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared," and their slogan is "Do A Good Deed Daily." I was a Boy Scout for many years, and I tried to honor both of those, but in all

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04:42

God Meets Us Where We Are. But!

Grace for All ·

2025/08/25

Luke 19:1-10 (NIV) Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man named Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short, he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. All the

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06:35

Practicing Kindness

Grace for All ·

2025/08/24

Proverbs 11:17 Those who are kind reward themselves, but the cruel do themselves harm.There is a popular quote, and I hope you’ll forgive me if the way I report it is not exactly how you have heard it. And I hope you’ll forgive me, too, if you know it to be from a particular source. You see, it’s actually attributed to many people — a quick Google search revealed attribution to everyone from Buddha to Saint Augustine to Christian author Joanna Weaver to Irish actor Malachy McCourt. In any case, the

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06:03

Scripture Saturday (August 23, 2025)

Grace for All ·

2025/08/23

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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05:10

Faithful through Every Season

Grace for All ·

2025/08/22

2 Timothy 2:13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself. Sometimes I think if I were God, I would have given up on people a long time ago. Do you ever feel that way? As if the rest of the world has quit trying, and you might as well, too?My walk with Jesus has led me through many seasons—seasons filled with hope and gratitude, seasons rich with promise and potential, seasons in which my spirit was so attuned to Christ I could see evidence of God’s presence everywhere I

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04:55

The I am(s) of Jesus

Grace for All ·

2025/08/21

John 8:54-59 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, ‘He is our God,’ though you do not know him. But I know him, if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word. Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell

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06:02

All Means All

Grace for All ·

2025/08/20

1 Corinthians 13:7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Bearing all things, believing all things, hoping all things, enduring all things- that is a lot to contemplate. Bearing and enduring don’t exactly have a positive tone. Hoping and believing do. When we really stop and examine these words in the context of God’s love, the verse only has universal meaning when they are applied to all things and all times. It is all too easy to love, believe, hope, and

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