Gray Memorial United Methodist Church Sermons
Sermons offered at Gray Memorial UMC in Tallahassee, Florida. To learn more, visit graymumc.org.
Episodes
118 episodes
Love Made Visible in the Listening
In “Love Made Visible in the Listening,” Rev. Beth Demme explores Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman in John 4, revealing how Jesus crosses deep cultural and religious boundaries simply by sitting down, listening, and truly seeing anothe...
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Episode 117
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31:49
Love Made Visible for the Sake of the World
On this second Sunday of Lent, we proclaim the heart of John 3:16–17: God loves the world and comes not to condemn, but to save. As we continue our Love Made Visible series and remove another layer from the painting in worship, w...
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Episode 116
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26:27
Love Made Visible in the Wilderness
In this first week of Lent, we follow Jesus into the wilderness and discover that love is formed long before it is seen. The temptations he faces are not obvious evils but subtle distortions—grasping for control, turning identity into performan...
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Episode 115
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21:16
Love Made Visible in the Ashes
On this Ash Wednesday, we begin our Lenten journey with Psalm 51 and the honest prayer, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” Rather than bargaining with God or hiding our brokenness, we learn to lean fully on God’s steadfast love, the love that...
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Episode 114
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13:05
Awakened to Grace Through Service
In this final message of the Awakened to Grace series, we reflect on how ordinary practices (prayer, scripture, silence, fasting, Sabbath, and service) create space for God’s transforming grace. Drawing on Matthew 25, we see that grace...
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Episode 113
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25:37
Awakened to Grace Through Sabbath
In this sermon, Pastor Beth explores Sabbath as a gift of grace looking at Genesis, Jesus’ teaching in Matthew, and the wisdom of John Greenleaf Whittier. Through story, hymn, and Scripture, we discover that Sabbath is not about doing less perf...
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Episode 112
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20:51
Awakened to Grace Through Fasting
This is a look at fasting as a spiritual performance or act of deprivation, but as a way of creating space to awaken to God's grace. Drawing on Jesus's teaching in Matthew 6 and the prophetic call of Isaiah 58, the message invites us to fast fr...
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Episode 111
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21:38
Awakened to Grace Through Silence
In this sermon, we meet the prophet Elijah not at his strongest, but at his most exhausted—hiding in a cave where God does not appear in noise or spectacle, but in a sound of sheer silence. Drawing on Scripture and real-life stories, t...
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Episode 110
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19:56
Awakened to Grace Through Scripture
On the road to Emmaus, Scripture does not give the disciples new information—it awakens them to the grace that has been walking with them all along. In this sermon, Pastor Beth explores Scripture not as a test to pass or a weapon to wield, but ...
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Episode 109
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23:57
Awakened to Grace Through Prayer
Guest preacher Joe Moxley offers a message about prayer on January 11, 2026.
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Episode 108
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20:16
Notice the Light Still Shines
On Epiphany Sunday, we reflect on how God’s light often appears in ordinary places and unexpected moments especially for the weary, the searching, the outsider, and all who long to belong. Scripture reading by Kim Maxwell.
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Episode 107
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18:07
Love Has Come Close
On this Fourth Sunday of Advent, we reflect on the nearness of God’s love, a love that does not stay distant but comes close to hold life in the midst of a complicated world. Drawing on Luke’s Christmas story and the image of refugia, we see ho...
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Episode 106
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23:34
Blue Christmas 2025: An Empty Chair
On one of the longest nights of the year, we gather to make space for what is often left unspoken at Christmas. Absence, sorrow, and long seasons of waiting still exist. God meets us not by erasing our pain, but by sitting with us in it, offeri...
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Episode 105
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16:27
Joy Breaks In So That It Can Break Out
On Joy Sunday, we explore how the angels’ proclamation of “good news of great joy” transforms ordinary lives. Through the story of the shepherds, we discover that joy does not erase hardship but reshapes how we live—and how we witness to God’s ...
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Episode 104
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21:12
Jesus Brings Peace to Our Torn Places
The shepherds lived on the margins, carrying wounds the world refused to see—yet God chose them to receive the first news of the Savior. Their story becomes a window into our own experience of feeling torn, weary, or unworthy. This message proc...
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Episode 103
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26:04
Nothing is Impossible With God
In this Advent message, Pastor Beth reflects on what it means to wait with hope when the world feels weary and the promises of God seem slow in coming. Looking at Mary and Joseph’s story, she reminds us that hope is rooted not in certainty, but...
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Episode 102
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24:20
Between Two Kingdoms
Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Luke 23:33-43 On Christ the King Sunday, we’re reminded that Jesus rules not by force or intimidation, but by mercy, compassion, and self-giving love. Standing between two kingdoms—fear and control on one side, f...
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Episode 101
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24:07
God Provides
A message by special guest, Seals Martin, a student with the Wesley Foundation at FSU and TSC. Scripture is read by Bill Eddy.
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Episode 100
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19:02
Those Seeds Are Still Growing
Join us as we celebrate 60 years of ministry and mark All Saints Day.
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Episode 99
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15:49
The Promise Still Holds
This week’s message explores what it means to be truly seen and set free by Jesus, through the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19. It also reflects on the powerful real-life journey of Leo Schofield, whose story reveals the surprising places g...
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Episode 98
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23:58
Draw the Circle Wider
Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector invites us to see ourselves more clearly and humbly. Drawing from the ministry of Father Greg Boyle and his book, Tattoos on the Heart, this sermon challenges us to let go of spiritu...
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Episode 97
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23:41
Faith That Won't Let Go
In this message, Pastor Beth explores Jesus’ parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge, reminding us that faith is what carries us through the “holy in-between”—the time between what is and what will be. Through stories of two modern...
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Episode 96
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23:36
Gratitude Returns, Love Clears the Way
Pastor Beth explores Luke 17:11–19 alongside the story of Dr. Opal Lee, the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.” Both the healed leper and Opal Lee show what it looks like when gratitude doesn’t stand still—it returns, and love clears the way for other...
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Episode 95
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26:42