Sanctus Church Audio Sermons

Post-modern living can cause us to wonder what is real and what is just a passing fancy. What can we depend on that won't disappoint us? Pastor Jon examines how Lamentations demonstrates the eternal hope we have in God's love, God who loves us despite our brokenness. His love is not contingent on us, but it never fails because of his unstoppable faithfulness. Even in the midst of struggle and doubt, God remains the real, just, unshifting truth upon which we can build our lives. Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication Date: May 17, 2026

Today's world is full of anxiety and hopelessness with seemingly no trustworthy source of comfort. In this new sermon series, Pastor Jon stars our look at Lamentations, one of the most overlooked books of the Bible, unpacking its historical context, and looking at how Christians can express an honest Kingdom form of grief, complaint, and hope in our unchanging, loving God. The first real step Jon counsels us through is the discipline of confession. Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication Date: May 3, 2026

How do you live out your faith? Pastor Jon takes us into the next part of Plan 3, outlining how it looks if we follow Jesus closely and walk in his power to serve others. He explores how acts of serving alongside sharing the gospel is an essential part of the Christian life. Speakers: Jon Thompson Publication: April 19, 2026

Sometimes it feels impossible to tell what is truly authentic and trustworthy these days. Who or what are we supposed to trust to help us make decisions? On this Easter Sunday, Pastor Jon looks at John 4 and Jesus's interaction with the woman at the well. As Jesus said to the woman, he has something for us we can't find elsewhere. He offers a loving and sustaining help that will meet us in all our struggles: the true healing of the gracious gift of Jesus's love and forgiveness.

Everyone looks for meaning and purpose in their lives, but we don't all find it. Pastor Jon looks examines Acts 17 and Paul's message in idolatrous Athens to explore how we can be seduced by false gospels, and what the real Gospel of Jesus Christ says. Like the Athenians, need to repent and turn from the ideas of appeasement, comfort, and self-sufficiency, to find our purpose in our loving creator God and know true rest and peace. Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication: March 22, 2026

Are you good enough? Do you follow all the rules you feel will make you spiritual enough, holy enough, and Christian enough? To start the new Easter series, Pastor Angela looks at Jesus's teaching in Mark 2 and unpacks how the Pharisees of Jesus's time believed that they were holy because they followed the rules - and the rules about the rules - better than anyone else. But Jesus taught that we are incapable of meeting God's standards on our own, and that it is only by receiving Jesus's loving sacrifice that we can be righteous. We must stop performing, stop judging ourselves according to human standards, and instead draw closer to our saviour to be able to co-labour with him in this kingdom-building exercise. Speaker: Angela Mason Publication: March 8, 2026

Do you find prayer difficult? You're not alone. Pastor Jon kicks off the first full sermon series of Plan 3 by looking at the existing culture of prayer in Sanctus Church, and outlining where we want to develop it next. He digs into what prayer itself can look like, and how we will develop our gifts and disciplines to become people who pray without ceasing in a Kingdom way.

Can't we all just get along? Is there really only one right way to do life? Today Pastor Jon tackles one of the most challenging passages of the the Sermon on the Mount for modern listeners. There is only one way, one gate, one door to salvation and it is Jesus Christ. We can tell the right teachers and leaders by the fruit they bear in their lives, whether they point to themselves and human effort or they point to Jesus, and only the latter are real sheep of the True Shepherd. Speaker: Jon ThompsonPublication: February 8, 2026

Is judgement always a bad thing? Pastor Lucas looks at the difference between wise discernment and condemnation of others without mercy. We need to look at other people through the lens of Jesus's compassion, not comparison to ourselves. But Jesus's words also tell us to examine our own behaviour with eyes that have been purified and humbled by Jesus's love. Speaker: Lucas PradoPublication: January 25, 2026

What or who do you trust to get or give you what you need? As children, we rely on our parents, but as adults it's easy to slip into the error that we are the ultimate provider for ourselves and our families. Pastor Jon looks at Jesus's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount that exposes the reality that all we build or collect in this world will pass away, but the treasure built up in heaven will be secure for the coming age. Whatever we worship, whatever our hearts truly seek, that place our souls are homesick for, will be where we find our greatest treasure. Speaker: Jon ThompsonPublication: January 11, 2026

The Magi, the Three Wise Men, the Kings of the East - there are several names by which we call the three figurines in the creche that brought baby Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh. In our last teaching on the Kings of Christmas for 2025, Pastor Lucas looks at the kings from the east who came a long way to seek out and meet this new born king, Jesus Christ. Speaker: Lucas PradoPublication: December 28, 2025

Christmas involves quite a few kings. When Jesus, the King of Kings, entered the world, there were already earthly kings that Jesus's Kingdom challenged. Pastor Jon compares Jesus's holy, eternal, and powerful Kingdom to the limited and dark ones of Caesar and Herod. Speaker: Jon ThompsonPublication: December 21, 2025