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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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Scripture Saturday (September 20, 2025)

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2025/09/20

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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Let Your Light Shine

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2025/09/19

Matthew 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. I love lighthouses. There is just something special about them to me. I love to photograph them, especially at dusk or dawn.What’s interesting to me about lighthouses is that although they are often architecturally very plain, and there is usually nothing special about their location or setting, they serve an incredibly vital purpose. I guess you could say that they

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03:39

Progress Isn’t Always Visible

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2025/09/18

Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.How many times in life have we as humans felt that we are working towards something and making little to no visible progress?I know that, being a graduate school student, I have felt this plenty of times, going through two thesis changes and working a job 20 hours a week on top of my course load.However, while we may not see it, progress is not always visible. We could be making leaps and bounds

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05:56

A Living Faith

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2025/09/17

1 John 3:18 Little children, let us love not in word or speech, but in deed and truth.In my life, I’ve had more than one experience, as I’m sure you have had, in which a person touted their piety and religious superiority, but I later found out that it was not backed up with behavior that reflected God’s love toward others. One of the most stark examples I can remember is when I was a child, and an interracial couple started attending my church. They were stared at and whispered about until they

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Talk is Cheap

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2025/09/16

1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. I’ve known some “big talkers” in my lifetime. Some of these acquaintances spoke of grandiose plans for their future, only to fizzle out when action was required. Others would spout off accomplishments, but in reality, they were riding on someone's coattails and attempting to take credit for someone else’s work. I try hard not to be too judgmental or dismissive of these folks, but I’ve been burned too many times by

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Live a New Life

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2025/09/15

Romans 6: 1-4What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.In this passage, which actually starts in the previous

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It’s Okay to Ask for Help

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2025/09/14

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. In this parable, Jesus uses the word abide to talk about our relationship to him. Abide, in this setting, is a rich word meaning to stay in fellowship or union with Christ. The metaphor of the vine and the branch helps to drive this message home. Grapes can only grow and bear fruit if connected to the vine.What does abiding mean for us? For me, it is a

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Scripture Saturday (September 13, 2025)

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2025/09/13

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

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Grace

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2025/09/12

Ephesians 2:8-9For it is by grace you have been saved through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. We Christians are not perfect. We Christians are all sinners. But the thing that sets us apart is our Faith and trust in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. He came to Earth, was virgin born into a human body, and lived a sinless life. When His time on earth was done, he calmly offered Himself up to die on that cross. He rose up

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Acts of Love

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2025/09/11

Hebrews 10:24 (NLT) Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.Most of us go about our daily lives on autopilot. We go to work, do our best, interact with our families and co-workers, clients, guests, or customers in a polite manner. Sure, we take some time to smile, laugh, and attempt to fully enjoy the day, but realistically, it’s just a routine. Others might even comment that we are always pleasant, upbeat, calm or well prepared. We smile and offer thanks, but

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Trust

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2025/09/10

Proverbs 3:5 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your path straight.I had a recent experience regarding trust that caused me to stop and consider the word and its deeper meaning. The veterinarian was to come and vaccinate our cat and horse early one morning. Usually, I must catch the cat and place him in the kitty box before the veterinarian comes to the house. Since we were also vaccinating the horse, I

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Don’t Be a Goat

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2025/09/09

Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."The stated theme of our podcast organizers this month is "The 'And' of Faith: Grace and Good Works." Having been raised Lutheran, where Sola Gratia—by Grace Alone—is an oft-quoted slogan and Martin Luther was known for his dislike of the book of James, my first reaction to the theme was a little negative. I had to remind myself that Paul has taught me that when

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03:40

Go and Do

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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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Finding Strength in the Vine

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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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Scripture Saturday (September 6, 2025)

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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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Together in Faith and Good Works

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

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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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Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

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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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The Comfort of a Rock

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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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Stirring Each Other

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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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