PODCAST · religion
Manna for your Soul
by Jason Rios
Take a listen to Manna for your soul. Each week, you will hear a word from Pastor Jason, to encourage you in your faith, to bless your life.
Episodes
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The Gift of Rest | Season of Rest Worship Series
Scripture: Leviticus 25: 1-19 In this message, we will reflect on how embracing the gift of rest allows us to be people of restoration, renewal, and wholeness. The Year of Jubilee teaches us about balance, equity, and kinship, celebrating that rest is a gift for all of God’s creation.
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What Kind of Rest? | Season of Rest Worship Series
Scripture: Genesis 2: 1-3 This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. As we continue, we will learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be...
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A Rhythm of Rest | Season of Rest Worship Series
This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. As we continue the series, we will learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be embraced. This...
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Release Into Rest | Season of Rest Worship Series
This four-week series explores the profound importance of rest in our lives. We start with Elijah's experience of divine rest, learn how to find a healthy balance of rest, work, and play, understand the rhythm of rest modeled by God, and affirm that God has given everyone the gift of rest to be...
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Connection with Community | Created for Connection Worship Series
Worship Series: “Created for Connection” God created us for connection and community. Drawing on the experiences of the early church in scripture, let us relearn how God leads us into lives of meaningful relationship with Godself and one another. The message: “Connection with Community” Scripture...
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Will Purpose Make Me Happy? | On Purpose Worship Series
Scripture: John 11: 1-7; 17-26 Today’s question is: “Will Purpose make me happy?” In a world that prioritizes “happiness,” God calls us into a more expansive vision of faith and flourishing.
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No Time Wasted | On Purpose Worship Series
When we don’t have the answer to where we are going, we often feel like we are wandering and “wasting time.” But with God, no time is wasted. In our wandering, God offers us an opportunity to explore new possibilities through acts of creativity, wonder, and play. Scripture: Exodus 16
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Purpose is Present | On Purpose Worship Series
Purpose is what we can do today. We must not only focus on the future but also the present. What do we have to offer right now, and who needs it? When we offer what we have now, we find – often to our surprise – that our purpose begins to come into focus.
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Who am I? | On Purpose Worship Series
Who Am I? That is today’s focus. We may feel like we are defined by our highs and lows, but first and foremost, we are defined by God’s love for us. God’s love promises to redeem our whole stories. It allows us to look back over our lives and see how all our experiences—good, bad, and...
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What is a purpose? | On Purpose Worship Series
Scripture: Matthew 5: 13-16 Finding our purpose is discovering who God has uniquely created us to be and how our gifts can serve others at any moment.
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Why Am I Here? | On Purpose Worship Series
Message preached at Tuckerton United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Scripture: John 3: 1-9 Have you ever asked this question: Why am I here? Trying to discover the purpose of our lives can lead to a lot of questions: Who am I? Do I have a “calling”? What am I supposed to do with my...
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Running from or running towards? | At Sea Worship Series
Scripture: Jonah 1: 1-17 Jonah, called by God to share a message of grace and mercy, decided to run away from that calling. Still, God shared grace and mercy with Jonah, the same message God wanted him to share with Nineveh. Jonah thought he might run away from sharing the message, but in the…
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Don't worry! Jesus is in the boat | At Sea Worship Series
Scripture: Matthew 8: 23-27 In the face of a storm, Jesus is sleeping while his disciples are struggling to keep the boat afloat. The storm is hammering the fishing boat, the disciples are screaming, the boat is rocking hard, and Jesus is sleeping. Not bothered by all the commotion happening…
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A Father's Love | Father's Day 2024 | Tuckerton UMC
Scripture: Matthew 7: 7-12
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God makes a way | At Sea Worship Series
Scripture: Exodus 14: 15-16, 21-22 God makes a way for you to walk in faith and continue to serve with hope.
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Our Anchor in the Storm | At Sea Worship Series
Scripture: Acts 27: 13-26 In the storms of life, our faith is the anchor that will keep us centered in God’s love and help us not to drift away from God’s love and hope.
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We Love One Another
Scripture: John 15: 9-17 Friends, we continue our Eastertide journey. A 50-day celebration leading towards Pentecost, where we celebrate the good news that in Christ’s death and resurrection, we, and all creation, are continually being made new by God’s love and saving grace. As we continue to...
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A New Thing | A New Creation Worship Series
Scripture: Isaiah 43: 18-19 Friends, we continue our Eastertide journey. A 50-day celebration leading towards Pentecost, where we celebrate the good news that in Christ’s death and resurrection, we, and all creation, are continually being made new by God’s love and saving grace. Today, we…
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Lament & Surrender | Through the Valley Worship Series
Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so too can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness, as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices. During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to...
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Lament and Honesty | Through the Valley Worship Series
Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so too can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness, as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices. During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to...
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Why Lament? | Through the Valley Worship Series
Friends, welcome to our Lenten journey through the valley. Just as Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days, so can we feel like we are wandering in the wilderness as we face hardships, grief, temptations, and injustices. During our lenten journey, we will discover what it means to wander...
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Heroes of the Faith (Deborah)
Scripture: Judges 5: 1-9 Heroes do not just belong in comic books and blockbuster movies. We have them in real life too – people whose courage, strength, and resilience we can look up to as models for our own lives. In this summer series, we will meet three outstanding heroes from our faith…
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Christmas in July Message
We celebrated Christmas in July! Here is the message using John 3:16
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Rising from Denial | Rising Strong Worship Series
The Bible is full of stories of redemption, change, and hope. Through four of those stories, we will discover how faith in a Risen Jesus can transform our lives for the better here and now. No matter how big or how small we fall, God outstretches God’s hand, ready to raise us up. Today's story we...
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Rising from Skepticism | Rising Worship Series
The Bible is full of stories of redemption, change, and hope. Through four of those stories, we will discover how faith in a Risen Jesus can transform our lives for the better here and now. No matter how big or how small we fall, God outstretches God’s hand, ready to raise us up. Today's story we...
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How and Why Do I Forgive?
Matthew 6:9-15 Forgiveness frees us from resentment and turmoil. God, who knows us inside out, sees where our mistakes and failings come from. God loves us through it all, offers forgiveness as a gift, and shows us how to extend it to others.
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Why do bad things happen to good people? | Questions to God Worship Series
Psalm 137 It is difficult to understand how God could allow the pain and suffering we see in the world and in our own lives. Jesus is Emmanuel, “God with Us”. Jesus reminds us that a better question to ask ourselves is, “What can I do to help those who are suffering and in pain?”
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Why should I go to church? | Questions to God Worship Series
Psalm 100 We might be able to believe in God, pray, and even worship alone, but in a community of faith, despite all its imperfections, we can connect, grow, and experience God’s love for us in ways we never could on our own.
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Is the Bible reliable? | Questions to God Worship Series
Hebrews 4:12-14 As Christians, we must always remember the purpose of the Bible is to call us back to God by retelling the story of salvation that culminates in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We cheapen the Bible when we use it to promote our own agendas.
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Who is God? | Questions to God Worship Series
1 John 4:7-19 People often wonder who God is or if God even exists. Each time we give, receive, or witness love, we get closer and closer to our answer.
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Living with Questions and Doubts | Questions to God Worship Series
Isaiah 6:1-8; Matthew 6:1-6 Doubts about faith and life are normal. Unfortunately, Christians are often taught to view doubts as failing God. Isaiah teaches us that by bringing our doubts into the open, we allow God’s grace to fill us with peace and strength.
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Steadfast Love
Scripture: Psalms 51 Our focus today is to prepare our hearts for the approaching season of Lent. We can come and find that God is waiting for us, waiting to receive us back into fellowship, waiting to be reconciled with us yet again.
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Dreams and Hope | Super Bowl Sunday 2023
Scripture: Genesis 37: 3-11 Dreams and hope can lead us to achieve God’s purpose in our lives, even in challenging times.
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Salvation in the House
Luke 19:1-10 A bold act of inclusion changed the life of Zacchaeus the tax collector as well as the whole community. How many lives can we transform if we really devote ourselves to inclusion? A fresh start requires being open to Jesus’ invitation to us as well as to those who are not valued in…
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How many miracles? | Fresh Start Worship Series
Luke 17:11-19 Jesus has the power to change lives through God’s grace. Our own seemingly intractable flaws can be overcome, and we can change the world in response to the change offered to us. A fresh start begins with living in awe and gratitude of God’s gifts.
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Hens and Chicks | Fresh Start Worship Series
Luke 13:31-35 Jesus refused to be distracted from his divine mission by dangers or frustrations. We are called to follow his example of steadfast purpose in fulfilling our mission. A fresh start requires steadfast purpose and accepting God’s embrace.
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Are you sure you are up to this? | Fresh Start Worship Series
Mark 8:27-38 “Taking up our crosses” to be disciples of Jesus means being willing to risk inconvenient demands on our time, lack of certainty, embarrassment, and sometimes even physical danger. But Jesus is the way to life, and he calls us to make fresh starts in faith. A fresh start requires...
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Joy made possible
Isaiah 35: 1-10 God’s deliverance of Israel and of us is cause for joyful celebration, not just human celebration but the celebration of all creation!
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Hope made possible
This Advent season, as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, we celebrate how he has made possible what once seemed impossible – peace, hope, joy and love! Isaiah 11: 1-10 Emmanuel, God with us, gives us hope. When we know God through Jesus, we can have hope that one day all will be restored.
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Peace made possible
This Advent season, as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, we celebrate how he has made possible what once seemed impossible – peace, hope, joy and love! Isaiah 2: 1-5 Jesus invites us into a change of mindset, to be agents of peace, offering us a new possibility for relating to others, a...
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Sometimes you have to laugh
Scripture: Genesis 18: 1-15
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Rise Up and Testify to God's Grace
Laity Sunday is observed on the third Sunday in October (October 16, 2022). Each year The United Methodist Church celebrates the ministry and witness of laypersons everywhere through a special service. Scripture: Acts 3: 1-10
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Equipped | All are called worship series
Equipped | 1 Samuel 17:31-40 God gives us the tools we need to fulfill our call. It won’t necessarily look the way we expected or be the way others do it, but God will create our own way for us.
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Supported | All are called worship series
Supported | 1 Samuel 20:1-17 Answering a call is rarely easy. But with the support of good friends and a community, we don’t have to face the hardships alone. Sunday after, we learned a dear friend, a faithful member of Tuckerton UMC passed away.
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God's purpose for you | All are Called Worship Series
Scripture: I Samuel 16: 1-13 God has a (different) purpose for everyone, even if it seems unlikely or calls you away from the “norm.”
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Overflowing Blessings | Releasing God's Blessings Worship Series
What are the possibilities when you release the blessings you have been given, and they overflow into the world?
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Road Trip: Replenish for the journey ahead
When taking a road trip, the journey matters as much as the arrival at your destination. Every road trip should include a can’t miss stop along the route. It is just as important in our faith journeys not to miss the movement of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
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Celebrate New Life | Celebrate Worship Series
Today's Message: Celebrating new life is about embracing how God transforms us to thrive and experience joy.
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Celebrate Promise | Celebrate Worship Series
Today's message: Embrace God’s calling for you, believe that God will do what God promises, and take courageous action in your life.
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Celebrate Diversity | Celebrate Worship Series
Today's message: As the body of Christ, we are called to celebrate the diverse ways God is reflected in each and every person.
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Take a listen to Manna for your soul. Each week, you will hear a word from Pastor Jason, to encourage you in your faith, to bless your life.
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