Transformed By Grace
Transformed By Grace is a daily television program produced by the Berean Bible Society. Pastor Kevin Sadler presents the transforming power of God’s grace on many different outlets.
Airing October 1, 2026 (Schedule)
- Series: A Stormy Voyage
Part: 2
Our study of the Apostle Paul’s windswept journey continues here. The narrative illustrates how demonic forces oppose the progress of God’s truth today, especially when believers reject Paul’s counsel in favor of human wisdom or the majority opinion. The crew’s decision to ignore Paul led them into danger, symbolizing how the Church has departed from Paul’s teachings, embraced unsound doctrine, and is drifting into spiritual shipwreck. The passage urges believers to hold fast to Paul’s message of grace, resist deception, and remain anchored in the truth God revealed for this present age.
Airing September 30, 2026 (Schedule)
- Series: A Stormy Voyage
Part: 1
The first of a three-part series of the Apostle Paul’s stormy voyage to Rome in Acts 27 presents the journey as a picture of the dispensation of grace, showing that the Church is sailing through a stormy age marked by satanic opposition, worldly turmoil, and resistance to the gospel. The “contrary winds” symbolize the powers of darkness pushing back against Paul’s message and hindering the spread of grace to the nations. Through Paul, God reveals how believers must navigate this age, and that Christ will deliver His Church before the coming wrath.
- Series: Understanding the Sign Gifts
Part: 4
By presenting the Apostle Paul’s letters in the order he wrote them, we learn in this lesson that the miraculous sign gifts were active during the Acts period, but temporary, disappearing entirely in Paul’s later epistles. Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 13 that these partial gifts would cease “when that which is perfect is come,” referring to the completion of the full revelation of the mystery and the Word of God. Faith, hope, and love, however, remain throughout the entire age of grace, with love being the greatest and the true measure of spiritual maturity.
- Series: Understanding the Sign Gifts
Part: 3
We see in this episode that the miraculous sign gifts—prophecy, tongues, and healing—were temporary tools God used during the “childhood” stage of the dispensation of grace to reveal His Word before Scripture was finished. Paul shows that these gifts would “fail,” “cease,” and “vanish away” once the completed revelation of God’s Word—especially the full mystery given to Paul—had come. Because the early Church only had partial knowledge, these gifts operated for a time, but were eventually no longer needed and therefore stopped.
- Series: Understanding the Sign Gifts
Part: 2
This study on 1 Corinthians 12 explains that God gave the early Body of Christ a variety of spiritual gifts to establish the Church and reveal the mystery before Scripture was complete. Apostles and prophets were foundational because they received and communicated new revelation, while miracles and healings confirmed that revelation—but these gifts ceased once the Word of God was finished. Other gifts such as teaching, helps, and administration continue today because they build up the Church through the already revealed Word.
- Series: Understanding the Sign Gifts
Part: 1
This series-opening message groups Scripture’s sign gifts into three categories. The miraculous signs in Mark 16 and early Acts belonged to Israel’s kingdom program and were temporarily suspended when God set Israel aside. When God began the dispensation of grace through the Apostle Paul, He introduced a new set of temporary sign gifts partly to confirm Paul’s apostleship, but these ceased once Scripture was complete. Today, only the non miraculous gifts remain, as believers now “walk by faith, not by sight.”
- Series: Portraits of Grace
Part: 6
In this teaching from Acts 16, the Apostle Paul and Silas cast a demon out of a slave girl in Philippi, enraging her masters when their profitable fortune telling business collapsed. The men dragged Paul and Silas before the authorities, who had them severely beaten and thrown into prison. Still, the two prayed and sang hymns, and God sent a targeted earthquake that opened every door and loosed every chain, yet none of the prisoners fled, prompting the shaken jailer to ask, “What must I do to be saved?” Paul told him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ—a message the jailer believed, becoming a portrait of grace.
- Series: Portraits of Grace
Part: 5
We learn in this episode about Cornelius, who was a devout, generous, God fearing Roman centurion, yet was still unsaved and needed to hear the message God sent the Apostle Peter to deliver. Cornelius’ life and eternity were changed by Peter coming and sharing the gospel of the kingdom with him and his family, and he was saved from his sins. Through this event, which astonished the Jewish believers present, we further discover God’s unfolding shift toward Gentile inclusion that would later be fully revealed through the ministry of the Apostle Paul, making Cornelius a portrait of grace.
- Series: Portraits of Grace
Part: 4
This study focuses on Barabbas, who was a notorious criminal—yet at Passover the crowd chose to free him instead of Jesus. Despite Pilate’s attempts to avoid condemning Christ, the religious leaders stirred the crowd into demanding Jesus’ crucifixion. Barabbas walked out of prison a free man because the innocent Christ took his place on the cross that had been prepared for him. Barabbas’ story becomes a vivid portrait of grace, showing how Christ, the righteous Substitute, died so the guilty may live—just as He does for every sinner set free.
- Series: Portraits of Grace
Part: 3
In this lesson, we learn of a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, who was sitting outside Jericho when he learned that Jesus was passing by. Bartimaeus immediately cried out for mercy, boldly calling Him the Son of David, Israel’s promised Messiah. Though the crowd tried to silence Bartimaeus, Jesus stopped, called for him, and upon hearing Bartimaeus’ request to receive his sight, healed him instantly. His physical healing illustrates the spiritual sight Christ gives to all who cry out to Him, making Bartimaeus a portrait of grace for every spiritually blind sinner who receives mercy through faith.