Grace for All

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

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What's Grace for All about?

"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 Church, Maryville, TN

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Grace for All episodes:

05.31.2024
Listen to the Songs of the Happy
James 5:13 "Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise." Let us pray. Let us sing. The sun shines. It rains. Let us pray. Let us sing. It...
05.30.2024
The People Sing Together
Isaiah 52:9 “Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.” There are many times that scripture indicates that we should sing. The Psalms are laden with indications to...
05.29.2024
Without Grumbling and Arguing
Do everything without grumbling and arguing so that you may be blameless and pure, innocent children of God surrounded by people who are crooked and corrupt. Among these people you shine like stars in the world 16 because you hold...
05.28.2024
Let it be Known
Isaiah 12:5 Sing to the Lord for he has done glorious things. Let this be known to all the world. Many years ago when my kids were young we had the pleasure of welcoming the African children's choir to our...
05.27.2024
Sing Praises to the Lord
Hebrews 2:12 He says I will tell your name to my brothers in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praises. The author of the book of Hebrews wrote this letter of encouragement to the Jewish Christians those...
05.26.2024
Burst Into Song
Isaiah 44:23 - "Sing for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, you earth beneath. Burst into song, you mountains, you forests and all your trees, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, he displays his glory...
05.25.2024
Scripture Saturday (May 25, 2024)
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,...
05.24.2024
Glorifying God
Isaiah 49:3“And he said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.” The concept of servant, either having a servant or being a servant, is unfamiliar to most Americans. Only a very small percentage...
05.23.2024
Sing Praises
Psalm 68:32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth. Sing praise to the Lord. Psalm 68:32(NIV) In any given moment around the world someone is singing. These songs can happen inside or outside, in groups or choirs, or...
05.22.2024
What a Friend
John 15: 12-14Jesus said to his disciples, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends...
05.21.2024
It Is Well With My Soul
1 Corinthians 14:15"So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding." By anyone's definition, Horatio...
05.20.2024
Sing for Strength
Psalm 81:1 "Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob!" As far back as my memory allows, I remember singing. I don’t necessarily remember singing well until after I joined the church...
05.19.2024
A Joyful Noise
Psalm 100:1-2 KJV Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. In late 2019, we moved into an independent Senior Living community in Maryville. and were welcomed by the residents...
05.18.2024
Scripture Saturday (May 18, 2024)
“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...
05.17.2024
In Awe of God
Psalm 96:1-4Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day.Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.For great is...
05.16.2024
Choosing Joy
The crowd joined in the attacks against Paul and Silas, so the authorities ordered that they be stripped of their clothes and beaten with a rod. When Paul and Silas had been severely beaten, the authorities threw them into prison...
05.15.2024
God is Love
I John 4:7-8 (NLT) Dear friends, let us continue to love one another for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God for…God is Love....
05.14.2024
True Joy
Our scripture for today is Psalms 71:23. “My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you – I whom you have redeemed.” I have a powerful memory of the first time I truly and profoundly knew...
05.13.2024
The Sounds of Heaven
Revelation 14:2 Then I looked, and there was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion. With him were one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven that...
05.12.2024
Sing with Gratitude
“Sing to the Lord with grateful praises; make music to our God on the harp.” (Psalm 147:7) First, let’s face it – in our lifetime, very few people carry around or own a harp. Our vision of the harp...
05.11.2024
Scripture Saturday (May 11, 2024)
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 or podcast app....
05.10.2024
A New Song II
Psalm 40:3 - "He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in him." Many years ago, during the most painful time of...
05.09.2024
A New Song
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. (Revelation 14:3)Everyone has, from time to...
05.08.2024
Play Skillfully
“Sing to him a new song; play skillfully, and shout for joy.” (Psalm 33:3) When I first read this verse, the phrase “play skillfully” really piqued my interest. Skill, after all, can be interpreted many different ways, and because of...
05.07.2024
A New Thing
See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth! (Isaiah...
05.06.2024
Collective Effervescence
"Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people." (Psalm 149:1 ) Have you ever been in a group of people who are all in the same place for the...
05.05.2024
Songs from the Spirit
"Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts." (Colosions 3:16) Today’s podcast was...
05.04.2024
Scripture Saturday (May 4, 2024)
Listen to this special episode where we share the Scriptures used in the episodes this week. Grace for All is a daily devotional podcast produced by the members of the congregation of First United Methodist Church in Maryville,...
05.03.2024
Sing for Joy Without Shame
Psalm 96:1 Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth! My dad was almost certainly tone deaf. I mean, literally. He could not carry...
05.02.2024
Music from the Heart
Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:19) I have always enjoyed music. When I was a teen, my mom joked that I knew...
05.01.2024
Amazing Grace
Songs of the SpiritWelcome to the Grace for All daily devotional podcast, produced by the people of First United Methodist Church in Maryville Tennessee. We are glad to have you with us. Today we are starting a new series of...
04.30.2024
United to Receive God’s Grace
Seek the Lord while He may be found. This devotion was written by Ed Cherry and recorded by Jim Stovall. Our scripture for today comes from: For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I...
04.29.2024
Are there any who understand?
Seek the Lord while He may be found. “The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.” (Psalm 14:2) Now God can certainly see for himself what...
04.28.2024
Durable Riches
Seek the Lord while He may be found. I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me, With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. (Proverbs 8:17 NIV) Small children frequently have words...
04.27.2024
Scripture Saturday (April 27, 2024)
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Listen (or listen again) to the Bible passages referenced in this past week of devotional episodes. Grace for All is a daily devotional podcast produced by the members of the congregation...
04.26.2024
Acting Out Our Faith
Seek the Lord while He may be found. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to...
04.25.2024
What We Seek
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye...
04.24.2024
Bearing Each Other’s Burdens
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Psalm 31: 9-12 Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning;my strength fails because of...
04.23.2024
Do I Qualify?
Seek the Lord while He may be found. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the groupand said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the...
04.22.2024
Looking for God
Seek the Lord while He may be found. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us." (Acts 17:27) I...
04.21.2024
Darkest Valleys
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Psalm 23The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures,he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.Even though I...
04.20.2024
Scripture Saturday (April 20, 2024)
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Saturday inspiration from the Scriptures we used during the devotionals from last week. Grace for All is a daily devotional podcast produced by the members of the congregation of First...
04.19.2024
Turning back to God
Seek the Lord while He may be found. "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will...
04.18.2024
No more excuses
Seek the Lord while He may be found.Isaiah 1: 10, 16–20Here, the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your...
04.17.2024
Finding Our Hope
Seek the Lord while He may be found. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to...
04.16.2024
Joy in the Morning
Seek the Lord while He may be foundWeeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning. (Psalms 30: 5) We celebrate the big milestones of our lives — weddings, birthdays, graduations, and such — with joy. We...
04.15.2024
Seeking God
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you for everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and...
04.14.2024
Go Into Your Room
Seek the Lord while He may be found. “But when you pray, go into your room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father, who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)...
04.13.2024
Scripture Saturday (April 13, 2024)
Listen to a mix of music and Scripture readings from this past week's devotional episodes. Grace for All is a daily devotional podcast produced by the members of the congregation of First United Methodist Church in Maryville, Tennessee. With these...
04.12.2024
Seeking God’s Face
Seek the Lord while He may be found.Psalm 105:4 - "Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always." It was the last afternoon of our trip to explore the nature preserves of Florida. Along with my friends...

What's Grace for All about?

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Grace for All episodes:

Listen to the Songs of the Happy

The People Sing Together

Without Grumbling and Arguing

Let it be Known

Sing Praises to the Lord

Burst Into Song

Scripture Saturday (May 25, 2024)

Glorifying God

Sing Praises

What a Friend

It Is Well With My Soul

Sing for Strength

A Joyful Noise

Scripture Saturday (May 18, 2024)

In Awe of God

Choosing Joy

God is Love

True Joy

The Sounds of Heaven

Sing with Gratitude

Scripture Saturday (May 11, 2024)

A New Song II

A New Song

Play Skillfully

A New Thing

Collective Effervescence

Songs from the Spirit

Scripture Saturday (May 4, 2024)

Sing for Joy Without Shame

Music from the Heart

Amazing Grace

United to Receive God’s Grace

Are there any who understand?

Durable Riches

Scripture Saturday (April 27, 2024)

Acting Out Our Faith

What We Seek

Bearing Each Other’s Burdens

Do I Qualify?

Looking for God

Darkest Valleys

Scripture Saturday (April 20, 2024)

Turning back to God

No more excuses

Finding Our Hope

Joy in the Morning

Seeking God

Go Into Your Room

Scripture Saturday (April 13, 2024)

Seeking God’s Face