Making a Difference
Positive and inspirational teachings that will make a difference in your life from Reverends Larry and Mary Ellen Swartz, ordained Unity ministers.
Episodes
216 episodes since 2019
Live Like There's No Tomorrow! Mary Ellen Swartz
"Do you not say that after four months comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest." (John 4:35)Listen as Mary Ellen speaks to the import...
September 14, 2024
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20:16
Why Your Healing Is Possible by Larry Swartz
Are we each responsible for illness or dis-ease in our mind and body? If it's true that with God all things are possible, does that include our healing? Listen as Larry shares his understanding of wholeness, how healing works and that your resi...
September 07, 2024
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20:26
How To Find Your Promised Land - Mary Ellen Swartz
In the book of Genesis there is a story of Moses leading the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt to a new place referred to as the promised land. Metaphysically the promised land is for each of us now. Our journey to the promised land begi...
August 31, 2024
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20:57
Vibrational Energy and Metaphysical Principle by Larry Swartz
What does vibrational energy have to do with the commandments and metaphysical principle? What does telling an untruth with have to do with receiving the good we want? What is the metaphysical principle within telling the Truth?Wha...
August 24, 2024
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22:48
Finding Metaphysical Principles In Moral Laws - by Mary Ellen Swartz
Thou Shall not commit adultery. (Exodus 20:14) The surface level this commandment seems to deal with moral living and outer action. On deeper levels one sees there are metaphysical principles to be found which include our thoughts and beliefs a...
August 17, 2024
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20:27
Just Legends OR Metaphysical Principles? by Larry Swartz
Legends are stories which are thought to be based on true events but have developed fictional elements that have significance to the culture from which they originate. The Bible contains many legends or stories that were orally shared for gener...
August 10, 2024
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20:14
Laws or Metaphysical Principles? Mary Ellen Swartz
Listen as Mary Ellen speaks to outer laws as Metaphysical Principles. The foundational principle of Life is One Presence, One Power, One Source. Giving power to anything other than the One Source always ends badly for us because it temporarily ...
August 03, 2024
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24:17
Metaphysical Principles - Larry Swartz
Are the Commandments old restrictive rules to keep people in line or are they timeless principles for freedom? Listen as Larry shares a powerful message based on the metaphysical meanings.If you feel guided to share a give of appreciati...
July 28, 2024
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20:03
How To Get Through Distressing Moments In Life - Mary Ellen Swartz
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Thou hast been with us always; therefore will we not fear when the earth quakes and mountains are shaken into the heart of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,...
July 20, 2024
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11:20
God Stuff, Faith and Forgiveness by Larry Swartz
Listen as Larry blends together the understanding of an omnipresent and neutral Energy we call God (God-Stuff) and how to give it shape and form within our lives - not accidentally, but on purpose with specifics as to what our mind can conceive...
July 14, 2024
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19:09
Greater Is The Power Within You Than (fill in the blank) by Mary Ellen Swartz
"That which would annihilate us (the lions of disease, poverty, sorrow) is powerless before a consciousness superbly poised in faith." Let There Be Light by Elizabeth Sand Turner, published by UnityMuch symbolism and deep spiritual...
July 06, 2024
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22:30
Some Practical Thoughts On Spiritual Freedom - Larry Swartz
"Freedom - The quality or state of being without thought or restrain, bondage, limitation or repression; having a sense of complete well-being. It is a result of regulating one's life according to Principlel, not according to what anyone else m...
June 29, 2024
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19:30
What Does It Mean To Pray In The Name Of Jesus? Mary Ellen Swartz
Listen as Mary Ellen shares her understanding of prayer and what it means to pray in the name of Jesus. Prayer is not about asking or begging God to give us what we do not have. Instead, it is saying yes to the good that has alre...
June 22, 2024
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16:46
Feeling Persecuted? It's Time To Rejoice! by Larry Swartz
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of justice for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men shall reproach you and persecute you and speak against you all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Then be ...
June 15, 2024
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22:29
You Can Be A Peacemaker...Really! by Mary Ellen Swartz
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God." (Matt. 5:9) Unity defines a peacemaker as "one who has the ability to say 'peace' to the turbulent waves of thought and have them obey." Revealing ...
June 08, 2024
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17:10
How Can We See God If God Is Spirit? Larry Swartz
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. (Matthew 5:8)"A person whose heart is pure directs his/her whole attention to God, to good. Purity is one-pointed vision, the 'single' eye. Impurity, in a spiritual sense, implies ...
June 01, 2024
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16:53
Mercy...Who Deserves It And Who Doesn't? Mary Ellen Swartz
"Blessed are the merciful for they shall have mercy." (Matthew 5:7)Mercy is often thought of as something given to an offender or someone who it is within our power to punish. What if mercy is actually a life principle that everyon...
May 25, 2024
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15:35
What It Means To Hunger and Thirst by Larry Swartz
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice for they shall be well satisfied." (Lamsa transl.)Hungering and thirsting are signs of being alive. When we are hungry or thirsty physically we want something to eat or drink howeve...
May 18, 2024
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18:02
Meekness Has A Bad Rap - Mary Ellen Swartz
Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:3)Listen as Mary Ellen shares thoughts about meekness getting a "bad rap." The reason is because when meekness is viewed from human only thinking it's often equated with weak...
May 11, 2024
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15:25
The Positive Side of Mourning - Larry Swartz
"Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted." Matthew 5:4Mourning or a sense of loss is something everyone knows well and there are many kinds of losses experienced in life. For what are you mourning? It might be the loss ...
May 04, 2024
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15:45
A Sure-Fire Way To Your Good - Mary Ellen Swartz
Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5: 3 KJV. Blessed are the humble for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 Lamsa transl. "The poor in spirit (humble) are persons who...
April 27, 2024
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16:55
How You Can Change Any Old Memory - Larry Swartz
Unity teaches that the nature of our thoughts determines the nature of the conditions in the environment of our life. How does thought become memory? How does memory become experience? Listen as Larry shares this important yet practic...
April 20, 2024
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21:36
A Day Of Judgment? Oh My!! by Mary Ellen Swartz
God's judgment, our judgments, judgmentalness and a day of judgment are linked. Listen as Mary Ellen connects the dots on the subject of judgment.If you are guided to share a gift of appreciation for our podcasts, please follow the ...
April 13, 2024
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20:24
Ask And It's Given...Really? by Larry Swartz
You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways. Job 22:28Ask, and it will be given to you...Matthew 7:7-8On the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they s...
April 06, 2024
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20:35
A Metaphysical Easter Lesson - Mary Ellen Swartz
Unity considers Easter as more than the story in the life of Jesus the Christ. Metaphysically Easter is about each individual awakening from the "dead" false beliefs that hinder the life more abundant of which Jesus taught. The crossing out or ...
March 30, 2024
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