Sanctuary Church
These are recordings from the Sunday messages at Sanctuary Church Chilliwack. Thank you for listening to these messages and we hope these will encourage you in your journey with Jesus. Find out more about Sanctuary Church on FB and Instagram @sanctuarychurch.life
Episodes
39 episodes
Summer Sermon Series: Dave Schlachter Overcoming Fear and Anxiety
Dave describes some of the difficulties he has gone through, how he discovered the teachings Jesus gave to overcome fear and anxiety, and how he experienced freedom through obedience to God's word.
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Summer Sermon Series: Greg Smith The God of my Understanding
We kick off our Summer Sermon Series this week with Greg Smith, a former Southern Baptist pastor from Virginia, USA. This sermon shows us how the many names for God reflect how we interact with God on a personal level. Greg ends this serm...
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Sanctuary Church Values: #6 We Live Spirit Empowered
This sermon by pastor Alynne Shinness wraps up our series on the founding values of Sanctuary Church. Keeping it simple, Alynne goes back to basics, examining how Jesus explained the Holy Spirit to his own disciples, and how that applies ...
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Sanctuary Church Values: #3 We Move Towards People
Hannah Mackie shows us from the Bible how Jesus moved toward people. We tend to isolate with things get murky, but Jesus did the opposite. Here, Jesu shows us how to love people like he does.
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Sanctuary Church Values: #5 We Put Jesus First
Hannah Mackie teaches on what it means to put Jesus first in our lives and in our church.
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Sanctuary Church Values: #2 We Bring Hope
Scott Gaglardi gives an in-depth explanation of the hope we have in Jesus, and how we can bring hope to others.
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Sanctuary Church Values: #1 We Speak Life
This episode is the first of a new series revisiting the founding values of Sanctuary Church in 2019. We'll take a fresh look at each value, and answer some questions to evaluate how we are inculcating each value into our everyday lives.
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Changing Roles at Sanctuary Church pt. 2
Alynne Shinness accepts a new role at Sanctuary Church and outlines spiritual and practical goals in this new season.
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Changing Roles at Sanctuary Church pt. 1
Scott Gaglardi, founder and pastor of Sanctuary Church in Chilliwack BC Canada describes how God has ordained a change of leader for the church.
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The Parable of The Net || Sunday, September 1, 2024
We continue our series through the parables of Jesus.
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Good And Bad Fruit || Sunday, April 21, 2024
Hannah continues our Sermon on the Mount looking at Matthew 7:15-23 and highlights Jesus' call to caring for the vulnerable, marginalized, and oppressed. We hope you will be encouraged in your apprenticeship to Jesus with this practical message...
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The Lord's Prayer Pt 1 || Sunday, November 5, 2023
"Prayer is an invitation to come to God's table." Hannah looked at the Lord's Prayer and invited us to consider some different perspectives on prayer that we might have as well as what might keep us from prayer. We learned that humi...
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Jesus teaches on lust & divorce || Sunday, August 20,2023
As we continue our journey through the Sermon on the Mount, Matt came to Jesus' teaching on lust and divorce. He led us through a brilliant examination of the scriptures where we saw God's heart that we not use people for our own gain but...
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Jesus teaches on anger || Sunday, August 6, 2023
This morning we looked at Matthew 5:21-26 where Jesus teaches us about anger, and the horrible place settled resentment and harboured animosity will take us. We hope this message will encourage you in your walk with Jesus.
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Salt & Light || Sunday, July 2, 2023
In a world full of darkness, decay, and pain Jesus tells us that we are salt and light. These statements not only tell us who we are, but they are invitations to join Jesus in His good work of restoring all things, and instructions to gui...
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His law is love & His gospel is peace || Sunday, July 16, 2023
'It is all a matter of perspective, and Jesus is our perspective point.'This morning Hannah continued our series through the Sermon on the Mount. We looked together at Jesus' teaching about the Law in Matthew 5:17-20. We are learn...
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Blessed Are The Peacemakers || Sunday, May 7, 2023
"Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justi...
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Flipping The Script - A Hunger For Justice || Sunday, March 19,2023
"God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.' Dorothy Solle...
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A Pure Heart - Navigating Disappointment || Sunday, April 16, 2023
"A pure heart is one without cynicism." This morning Hannah led us on an exploration of the 6th Beatitude - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. She showed us how this applies to our 'today' instead of 'some...
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Blessed Are The Merciful || Sunday, April 2, 2023
We continued our look at the Beatitudes this morning as Matt led us on an exploration of what mercy is, and some practical applications for us to daily grow in mercy. We saw that mercy was bigger, richer, and with far broader implications...
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Blessed Are The Humble || Sunday, March 5, 2023
We continued our look at the Beatitudes, focusing on Jesus' statement about humility. In an increasingly polarized world where differences are viewed as threats toward us rather than teachers for us, we are invited to lower our defenses a...
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Follow The Thread || Sunday, February 5, 2023
This Sunday Hannah started our series on the Beatitudes looking at 'Blessed are the poor in spirit.'' We were brilliantly invited to 'follow the thread' as she explored the blessing that is ours as we live into this life Jesus calls us to...
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With Us In The Waiting || Sunday, November 20, 2022
This morning we talked about the seasons of waiting that we've all experienced. Waiting for something to change, waiting for a resolution or reconciliation, waiting for a miracle, waiting for an answered prayer, waiting. We drew som...
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Living Uncomfortably Comfortable || Sunday, November 6, 2022
Today we wrapped up our series on the Holy Spirit. We reviewed the ground we have covered and then looked at Jesus' promise to send us a Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Our natural disposition is to seek comfort and live comfortably, bu...
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