By Josh Read on Mar 11, 2026
Grace might be the most preached-on topic in the history of the church and the least understood. Every pastor has a grace sermon in their back pocket. The problem isn't that we preach it too rarely. The problem is that we've filed it under "God is nice to us" and moved on.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer identified this seventy years ago and named it precisely: cheap grace. Grace as doctrine, as principle, as system. Grace without discipleship, grace without the cross. Most congregations have heard enough grace sermons to believe God accepts them. Far fewer have heard one that made them uncomfortable.
This outline is for that second sermon. Not grace as comfort but grace as disruption. The kind that doesn't just forgive what you were but refuses to leave you there.
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By Peter Mead on Jun 27, 2020
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How many gospel preachers really preach the radical message of God's grace, and how many feel the need to qualify it?
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By Ray Ortlund on Apr 23, 2024
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True awakening or revival is a glorious season in the life of the church when for His glory alone, God causes the ordinary means of His grace to make an extraordinary impact on many people.
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By Dr. Stephen Nichols on Oct 5, 2022
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Luther’s statement at Torgau on October 5, 1544, must be our watchword: “We can spare everything except the Word.”
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By SermonCentral .com on Aug 9, 2022
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God is like a great Niagara Falls—you look at it and think: surely this can’t keep going at this force for year after year after year. It seems like it would have to rest. Or it seems like some place up stream it would run dry. But, no, it just keeps surging and crashing and making honeymooners happy century after century. That’s the way God is about doing us good. He never grows weary of it. It never gets boring to him.
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By Jon Bloom on Dec 6, 2022
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God can turn a day of reckoning into a day of amnesty. But he’s calling today. Come out of the dungeon.
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By Chad Ashby on Nov 14, 2022
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Brothers and sisters, “As long as it is called ‘today,’ [be sure] that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin!” (Hebrews 3:13)
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By Thomas C. Brown on Jul 30, 2022
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"He has not chosen the strong, but the weak. He has not recruited the mighty, but the frail. He has not selected those who think themselves capable and worthy, but those who know themselves deficient and disqualified apart from his cleansing, preserving, and empowering grace."
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