Sanctuary Church

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.

Hannah Mackie teaches on what it means to put Jesus first in our lives and in our church.

Scott Gaglardi gives an in-depth explanation of the hope we have in Jesus, and how we can bring hope to others.

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.

Scott Gaglardi, founder and pastor of Sanctuary Church in Chilliwack BC Canada describes how God has ordained a change of leader for the church.

Alynne Shinness accepts a new role at Sanctuary Church and outlines spiritual and  practical goals in this new season.

We continue our series through the parables of Jesus.

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.

"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 humility is the antidote to those obstacles and we can come to the table often, always, and in a variety of ways.  We hope you will be encouraged by t...

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 instead view everyone as beloved by God and marked with His image, as well as  God's heart to protect and lift up women. We trust you will be enc...

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. 

'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 learning together to walk in the way of Jesus and we hope you will be encouraged by this service.

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 guide our posture in the world.  We hope this message will encourage you.

"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 justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied." Scot McKnight  Hannah challenged us to not adopt a 'peace' that is found in disengaging from...

"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 'someday' and asked us to consider what we allow to disciple us in our disappointment.   We hope you will be encouraged by this message.

"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 Hannah led us on an exploration of Jesus' 4th Beatitude this morning as we were called to justice and faithfulness.  We pray you will be encouraged, and...

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 than we may have previously considered.   ‘Mercy dares us to believe that the truest thing about us is not that we are broken, or flawed, but that we are belove...

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 and walk in humility. We hope you will be encouraged by this message as together we live into the way of Jesus.

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.  We hope you will be encouraged by this practical, life giving word.

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 some lessons from Abraham and Sarah's 25-year wait for a child and reminded ourselves that God is always WITH us in our waiting.   We pray you will be encourag...

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, but in doing so we can miss out on the comfort that Holy Spirit comes to bring us.  We asked ourselves, where are we stepping out of our comfort zones in response...

We continued our series on the Holy Spirit this morning, and Matt invited us to look at the creative work of the Holy Spirit, and recognize the closeness of the Spirit to us.   We were encouraged to stop and listen to our breath, and be aware that the Spirit is closer to us than our breath. We pray you will be encouraged as you listen to the message to partner with the Holy Spirit in the creative,...

We continued our series on the Holy Spirit this morning.  We started by recapping the last three messages in this series, and then we talked about Spiritual Gifts.  What is the context they are to operate in, and why they are given.  Paul invites us to 'eagerly desire' spiritual gifts (1 Cor 14:1), and we hope this message will encourage you and increase your desire to make yourself avai...

We're continuing on with our series on the Holy Spirit, and this morning Hannah spoke about the person and presence of the Holy Spirit. It was a great message with practical tools for engaging daily with the Holy Spirit and partnering with Him in the work of Jesus.  "...the Holy Spirit shows us the generosity of God..." Hannah Mackie 

This morning we looked at what it means to be led by the Holy Spirit.  One of our values as a community is, 'We live Spirit-empowered.' But how do we do that, and what does a Holy Spirit-led life look like?  Please join us as we look to the scriptures to answer these and other questions about following the Holy Spirit.  We hope this message will encourage you as you follow Jesus.