SERMONS ON GRACE ALONE
Our sermon ideas on Grace Alone will help you preach a powerful message. This is a powerful, and wonderfully freeing doctrine that teaches us that salvation is by grace alone, and not as a result of our works. Teach your congregation on this topic that runs squarely against our culture of work and approval. Prepare your message on Grace Alone with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
"He who does not receive salvation purely through grace, independently of all good works, certainly will never secure it." - Martin Luther
Grace Alone
by Stephen Whitney
In 1506 Pope Julius laid the foundations for an imposing church in Rome which he called St. Peter's Basilica because it was where they believed the apostle Peter was buried. The church was going to be built on almost 6 acres of land. The church was going to be a very large structure in the shape of a cross. The most outstanding feature of the church would be a round dome 80 feet across supported by four large posts and 400 feet high. Today, the dome of St. Peter's Basilica still stands as the symbol of the Roman Catholic church in the Papal square. To build such a large building cost a lot of money even back in the...
Saved by Grace (7 of 14)
by Jim Perdue
As we've studied the New Testament book of 1 John together, we've been introduced to what it means to encounter Authentic Christianity. John teaches about who Jesus really is, what faith really means and what love really looks like. Here, John introduces us to the concept of God's incredible grace. In 1 John 3:1-3 we see how God's amazing grace has transformed us and changed us completely. Some purchases come with extras that have to be purchased. A new car is a sizable investment in and of itself, but there is always a long list of additional purchases that can be added on to enhance the new car and increase its price...
The Amazing Grace of God's Covenant with Sinners (13 of 48)
by Patrick Edwards
Robert Frost must have been reflecting on Psalm 1 when he wrote of how two roads diverged in the wood and he took the one less traveled, which made all the difference. You remember from Genesis 6 a few weeks back, that I argued, that among many things the story of Noah and the Flood illustrates the truth of Psalm 1: that the path of righteousness leads to life and the path of wickedness leads to death. Humanity had taken the blessings of marriage and of stewardship over creation and had perverted them into self-gratifying idols. Thus, God rightly judges man and the earth he has corrupted. Noah, however, found favor in the eyes...
By Grace We Are Saved (6 of 40)
by Jesus Culture Resources
Last week, we looked at what we were before we had a relationship with Jesus. We were dead, living in lies, and under God's wrath. This week, we are going to transition into learning about the amazing grace that God gives freely to us who believe. During the Christmas season, we celebrate family, giving gifts, and generosity. With Christmas in mind, we are going to look at God as an extravagantly rich parent, who cannot hold back from lavishing His love and gifts upon us. Main Scripture: Ephesians 2:4-7 EQUIP: Empowering Grace Have your group read EPHESIANS 2:4-7 and then focus on the observations and teaching points provided...
God's Grace that Changes Us!
by David Cawston
Introduction: Salvation by grace. 2:1-10, Grace is the word that is used so predominately in these verses. Grace Defined: Paul wants us to understand the depth of this grace.It is the understanding of Grace that prepares us for change! I. What we were in the past. 2:1-3. 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts....
What's So Amazing About Grace (3 of 10)
by Joe Alain
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. This past Wednesday was the anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States. Although it was a horrific day of unspeakable and dark evil, it was a day that brought out the best in Americans, it was a day of heroism and a day that prompted a great outpouring of love from people around the world. We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Just this week I read the heartbreaking story of 12 year old Rebecca Ann Sedwick who after being bullied and tormented by some of her classmates for nearly a year climbed a tower at an abandoned concrete plant in Lakeland, FL and jumped to...
Thankful to Be Alive (2 of 3)
by Benny Perez
The flesh refers to that fallen nature that we were born with, that wants to control the body and the mind and make us disobey God Illustration: ''Why Your Dog Does What It Does,'' and, of course, many dog lovers came out to hear him. What he had to say was obvious, but too often overlooked: ''A dog behaves like a dog because he has a dog's nature.'' If somehow you could transplant into the dog the nature of the cat, his behavior would change radically. You are forgiven, favored and full of God's Power. The Power of Sin Has been smashed in your life. You are no longer a slave to sin but Have been given Life Giving Power in Jesus Christ...
Amazing Grace
by Jerry Vines
There was a man named John Newton who was an English preacher in the 1700's. He preached many sermons, but probably you do not know of any of those sermons. He also wrote several books, but probably if I named the titles of those books, you would not be familiar with them. But John Newton was also a hymn writer and along the way he wrote a hymn which goes like this, ''Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.'' It may well be that John Newton drew his inspiration for that great hymn from the very passage of scripture that we...
An Old Sinner Saved by Grace
by Robert Walker
In Ian Maclaren's book titled ''afterwards and Other Stories, he has a chapter called ''Dr. Davidson's Last Christmas. Dr Davidson was the old parish minister in Drumtochty. Ian Maclaren writes, ''John, the minister's man paid his usual last visit to the study before he went to bed. The Dr. did not hear him enter the room. He was holding conversation with his dog; Skye was seated on a chair looking very wise and much interested. 'Ye are a bonnie beastly Skye you've been true and kind to your master, Skye and you'll miss him if he leaves you. Some day you will die also and they will bury ye, and I doubt that will be the end of ye, Skye...
God's Charity
by Christopher Harbin
People don't like handouts. We feel like they diminish our worth. We associate them with shame, with powerlessness, with a sense of inferiority, with some kind of personal or moral failure. Oh, that does not keep us from wanting something that is free. It does not keep us from accepting gifts. Somehow we make a distinction between what is free, what is a benefit, what we have earned, what we deserve, and what we receive that devalues or dehumanizes us. We like to say that beggars can't be choosers, that you can't look a gift horse in the mouth, but we are just as aware that not all charity is charitable, that some...
The Triumph of God's Grace (28 of 48)
by Patrick Edwards
Do you ever look around you and find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of sin and evil that stands in the way of the promises of God? For example, when we gather on Monday and Friday mornings for corporate prayer and we begin praying for our world and for the nations, how often our conversations and prayers begin to dwell on the sheer violence and destruction that plagues this world. How can the Gospel advance when Christians are being slaughtered in places like Iraq or South Asia or the Pacific Rim? How can there be peace when nations are torn apart by civil war and unrest? I mean even though God has said He will...
Grace
by Bob Wickizer
To be a real Christian, we must recognize God's grace at every moment of our lives and not just the big events, but also the everyday stuff. We must understand that God's grace creates the complex web of relationships and events that sustain us. As fallible humans however, we easily slide into one of three situations where we deny the reality and ever presence of God's grace. First, we may think that wherever we are in life, we did everything ourselves. Secondly we may think other people need God's grace more than we do. And lastly, we may think that we must do something to earn God's grace. Jesus refutes all three...
Grace or Disgrace?
by Stan Coffey
If you have your Bible, we are looking at Titus 2:11. How sweet it is to know that not only does Jesus save us, not only does Jesus sacrifice for us, but also Jesus secures us. We cannot loose that salvation that is eternal in Christ. But on the other side, Satan comes along and he tells us another lie. He comes along and tells us the lie, well now that you know you are saved and now that you know you can never loose it, just go out and do any sin you want to commit because after all, you have fire insurance. You are not going to go to hell for it. You are saved, you are all right. And sometimes we fall into the habit of...
Grace Giving
by Jerry Vines
For most people the subject of giving is really a grind. A lot people when they think in terms of giving have a little natural reluctance to even talk about the subject. I suppose the reasons for this is that there is a streak of stinginess in all of us and we really don't want to talk too much about giving and depriving ourselves of something. In the average church, when you take up the offering, the song that could be appropriately sung is, ''When we asunder part, it gives us inward pain.'' There are a lot of people who take that attitude when you talk about the matter of giving. But I have a feeling that one of the reasons why the subject of giving...
Walking in Grace
by David Cawston
Introduction:Grace is a greatly misunderstood word in our culture. Our culture builds worth on talent, education achievement and wealth. We teach people to look deep inside and find something of value and then they can be accepted.We operate on rules, conditional love, beauty, performance, material possessions and we place these things as worth while. God's value of us is on the basis of Grace, not any of these other conditions. Grace Defined: Unmerited favor. This is a hard concept for us to understand because of our culture when every thing is based on performance, grading, debt etc. Listen to what...
Dying Grace
by Adrian Rogers
I want to speak to you today on this subject, ''Dying Grace.'' Now, God gives us living grace and saving grace and so God who saves us and God who keeps us is the God who will give to us dying grace. And I read here in the word of God, ''And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years and the time drew nigh that Israel must die.'' And the time drew nigh that Israel must die. For it is appointed unto man once to die. I'm going to die, you're going to die, Israel must die. We all must die with the one exception should the Lord Jesus Christ come first, then we'll not die...
The Light of Grace
by Tony Nester
Jesus made a practice of telling people who they were and what they could do. He told a paralyzed man he could walk; he told a guilt-ridden woman she was forgiven; he told a three-day dead Lazarus to come out of his tomb. In Matthew 5:14-16 Jesus told his disciples then and tells us now by the Holy Spirit that they were and we are the light of the world. You might think it's too high a compliment to call the Church the light of the world. Are we really that good, that significant, and that radiant? And yet we can no more disclaim being the light of the world than could that lame man refuse to walk when he heard Jesus say...
