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
228 episodes
Are You Ready For A New Look At Jesus? by Mary Ellen Swartz
Are you ready to take a new look at Jesus? Are you willing to expand your understanding of Jesus? Listen as Mary Ellen shares a lesson about who Jesus was and who Jesus is in our ever growing spiritual understanding. Christ is the per...
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Who Are You And What Are You Doing Here? by Larry Swartz
Are you created in the image and likeness of God? (Genesis 1:26-27) Have you been created as a little lower than the angels? (Psalms 8:4-6)Are you more than you have yet to discover? (Psalms 82:6 & John 10:34)Listen as Lar...
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Your Life Is Moving Forward Not Backward - Mary Ellen Swartz
The impulse within all life is about moving forward. You may not have realized it, but your life has always been moving forward and not backward. Listen as Mary Ellen shares some metaphysical lessons and meanings for our lives today that ...
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Another View Of The First Commandment by Larry Swartz
The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of ethical and religious directives that are part of the Hebrew Bible. According to the Bible the Ten Commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai and he then gave them to the chil...
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You Are Not Powerless! by Mary Ellen Swartz
Have you been feeling powerless? Do you feel someone or some group has taken away your power or in the process of taking away your power? This lesson may be just for you. Listen as Mary Ellen shares a spiritually sound and practical message abo...
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You Deserve Freedom by Larry Swartz
What is freedom? A Larry Swartz definition of freedom is "A state of mind or being that is found within an emotional alignment with Source Energy of which which we are an extension...."Listen as Larry shares thoughts on the subject of...
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A Metaphysical Lesson Of Two Sons and One Father by Mary Ellen Swartz
According to Luke 15th chapter, Jesus told a story about two sons and their father. Often this is referred to as the parable of the prodigal son, although the word prodigal is not used in the scripture. Some find meaning in a surface level appr...
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Sex, Lies and Forgiveness by Larry Swartz
And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they s...
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The Metaphysics of Forgiveness by Mary Ellen Swartz
We are often told how important it is to forgive. But what is forgiveness and is there a recipe for it? Listen as Mary Ellen shares a practical lesson about forgiveness and the process of forgiving ourselves and others. "Forgivenes...
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How To Unblock The Flow Of Your Good - Larry Swartz
Sue Sikking, Unity minister, wrote a book entitled God Always Says Yes. What does that mean? Emmet Fox, New Thought author, wrote that we must have the Mental Equivalent for what we desire. How do we get that?Listen as Lar...
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Can Spirituality Really Be Simple? by Mary Ellen Swartz
The familiar acronym KISS might be a reminder to keep our spirituality simple. Some would define spirituality as that which has to do with ecclesiastical law and belonging to the church. Simplicity is often defined as the state of bein...
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You Are A Spiritual Being Having A Physical Experience - Larry Swartz
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French priest and philosopher. Listen as Larry shares his understanding of the Truth within t...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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