Sanctus Church Audio Sermons

Welcome to the 5th Commandment! This commandment is given to help you remove roadblocks to freedom and enjoyment, regardless of what kind of parents you may have had. Join us as we study what it truly means to 'honour your father and mother'. Series Description:  This series is on the 10 Commandments. We are exploring - are they relevant, are they useful, how do they help us see God, how do they d...

Over the next 5 years, we're committed to Enhance, Expand & Ensure across 4 keys areas to help impact our community, our nation, and beyond.

Welcome to the 4th Commandment, Sabbath keeping! What does it mean? Is it even relevant? Is it optional? Is it a duty? We invite you to listen and find out why this is one of the greatest gifts God gives us as followers and also challenges us not to believe that we are stronger or more in control than God. Series Description:  This series is on the 10 Commandments. We are exploring - are they rele...

Welcome to Week 3.  This week we look at the 3rd Commandment; ‘Do not take the Lord’s Name in vain.' Though this command may seem to have an obvious application in our lives, it’s actually more pervasive than any of us may want to admit. It’s a helpful conversation for us to have so we can love God and love our neighbour better. Series Description:  This series is on the 10 Commandments. We are ex...

What is idolatry in 2019? Why does it matter? Does it effect my everyday life? We will also be discussing why freedom from idolatry can be one of the most life-giving gifts from God to all of us.

This is the introduction to the 10 Commandments.  We will be exploring what they are, what they are not and how they will help all of us.   Series Description:  This series is on the 10 Commandments. We are exploring - are they relevant, are they useful, how do they help us see God, how do they drive us to God’s mercy and can they become life-giving laws after you have met Jesus?

As we conclude our series on the Spiritual Gifts we come to this final discussion on Disciplines, Gifts and Revival. Is there a distinction between renewal, revival and awakening? Well at C4 here is how we use these 3 words. RENEWAL: is when God touches the heart of a single individual.   REVIVAL is when God touches a community of faith on mass. AWAKENING is when the wider society is impacted thou...

So welcome to the second last week in our series on Spiritual gifts, Today we end with two last gifts, we tackle gift tension head on, we talk about the grace needed for us to keep going. Celibacy: The gift of celibacy is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to remain single and enjoy it; to be unmarried and not suffer undue sexual temptation. Though many of...

Healing: Those who have the gift of Healing experience a deep desire to see God alleviate physical problems in people and the willingness to be used by God to do so, an unusual ability to sense the power of God when it is present for healing, and the ability to trust God and believe that He wants to heal. You have the willingness to take risks for God… The principle of contagion probably applies h...

The gift of prophecy can be defined as the ability to deliver truth in a public context in either a predictive nature or as a situational word from God in order to correct believers by exhorting, edifying or consoling them, or to convince non-believer's of God's truth. A person operating in this gift is deeply impressed that God has by his Spirit given him or her a message to deliver in the situat...

Sermon Description: Tongues: It can be a known or unknown language that is given to some but not all Christians. It can be used evangelistically, tongues can used to authenticate the addition of new people into God's church, tongues can be used for edification in small groups or worship. Tongues can be used to worship God by singing in tongues, to pray for others, to be thankful, to give inner ass...

This week we begin to learn together about the POWER gifts, starting with the gifts of Faith, Discernment of Spirits & Workings of Power through Miracles. Faith: The spiritual gift of faith is not saving faith, or walking out our Christian faith in every day life. It a Spiritual gift. The gift of faith refers to the unusual capacity of a person to recognize in a given situation that God intends to...

This week we follow up last weeks introduction to the Word Gifts by addressing those with the gift of Leadership/Ruling, Pastoring and Evangelism. Leadership: A person operating with a ruling gift demonstrates the capacity to exercise influence over a group so as to lead it towards a goal or purpose with a particular emphasis on the capacity to make decisions and keep the group operating together....

Teaching, exhortation, and apostleship are three of the word-oriented gifts of the Holy Spirit. Teaching as a role that informs, trains, prepares, disciples, and equips. Exhortation as a coming alongside with encouragement as well as confrontation if necessary, a gift that touches on the internal life of other followers of Jesus. Apostleship which is a pure leadership and expansion gift, pushing b...

When it is a gift there is a greater ease, there is a frequency and power, there are great results, there is more joy, and worship and Jesus feels closer, it’s a supernatural sweet spot! The Love gifts (Administration, Helps, Mercy & Giving) are key to the church working right and Love gifts are secondary in the sense that they are all about supporting, building up what God has and is establishing...

The spiritual gifts must access a place of every growing character, a deep deep reservoir of love. The gifts of the Spirit must be undergirded by the Fruit of the Holy Spirit which is first and foremost love. We all as Christians get at least one gift and the gifts are given for one thing and one thing alone the common good. To build up, to rebuke, to encourage, to challenge to bring life to the c...

We at Sanctus Church (previously C4) believe every Christ follower is called to impact those around them through loving, joyful, gift-based service. We know that when we give God glory there is joy, we know that when we work in the areas God has gifted us we experience such powerful joy and we know purpose is given when we serve in our God-given assignments. But what if you don't know your Spiritu...

Always in January we take a small pause, a Sunday to stop and be reminded about what we are as a church, what we are becoming, what we are about to do and what the Holy Spirit might be saying to us in this very moment as we prepare to step out in this next major leg of our journey as a church. We need to be reminded of what we are and where we are going. Vision lacks in the best of times and the b...

We must never lose sight of the fact that God is a giver. God has shown us the example of how to give (John 3:16). When I give, I'm becoming more like God, I'm acting more like God. This means that I'm growing in Godly character. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving! Series Title: Fully Devoted: Engage in Mission Series Description: One of our discipleship dimensions here...