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This is Part 2 of a mini-series called “Misfits.” Pastor Tullian's main point in this series is to show that we are misfits fitted together by the misfit God who seeks out the lost and the guilty and the fearful and the broken. So cheer up, we are all card carrying members of God’s beloved lunatic fringe 😊. We hope this message encourages you… Mark 2:16-17

Pastor Tullian started a mini-series yesterday at The Sanctuary Jupiter called “Misfits”. At the beginning of each year, Tullian takes two weeks to explore who we are and what we’re about as a church. And he opened by saying that when Stacie and he moved here to start The Sanctuary, they didn’t come to start a church for Christians. Nor did they come to start a church for non-Christians. Tullian and Stacie came to start a recovery place for humans—for people well acquainted with failure and loss and disappointment and sadness and guilt and shame and regret and grief and struggle and consequences and death and sorrow and sadness. In other words, we came to start a Sanctuary for sinners, a meeting house for misfits. We hope this message encourages you… Luke 15:1-2

"Pardoned" | Tullian Tchividjian Exodus 20:1-6 "We wanted this first message of 2023 to be special. And so I went back through all the sermons I’ve preached since we opened The Sanctuary in November 2020 to find one that stood out to me as of primary importance. Now, in a real sense, every sermon I preach is important because every sermon talks about God and our need for God. But there are some that are more foundational than others, and this is one of those sermons. So, you may disagree with me, but the sermon that I've selected is, in my opinion, the most important sermon I’ve preached in two years. I hope God uses it to open your eyes wider than ever to the beauty and brilliance of his grace. Happy New Year!" - Pastor Tullian Tchividjian The Sanctuary can also be found here: WEBSITE: https://TheSanctuaryJupiter.com SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PYOs9dMKEc4kcUynGy1YW Get Tullian's book: https://tinyurl.com/4ws6aapn

We hope this message encourages you greatly… John 1:1-14

"Exiles in Waiting" | Stacie Tchividjian Jeremiah 29:11 The Sanctuary can also be found here: https://TheSanctuaryJupiter.com

Q & A w/ Tullian & Stacie Tchividjian

Yesterday, Pastor Tullian concluded a series on the biblical book of Job that he called “Glorious Ruin.” It was a series about the fact that life is hard and pain is real, but grace abounds. It helps us gain a clearer understanding of those intersections in life where our misery and God’s mercy collide. We're sorry it’s over! In this concluding message, “An Epilogue on Suffering", Tullian tackled some misconceptions we have about suffering and how Jesus, our wonderful counselor, loves us unconditionally through every valley we go through. We hope this message encourages you greatly… Job 42:7-17

The road from knowing about God to knowing God, from hearing to seeing, is paved in suffering and loss and failure and pain. There is just no other way to be truly set free from our innate sense of self-sufficiency. We hope this message from the book of Job is a burden-lifting encouragement to you. Job 42:1-5

Strange as this may sound, I am amazingly grateful for the way God has wrecked my idealism about myself and the world and replaced it with a realism about the extent of his grace and love, which is much bigger than I had ever imagined. You see, the smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. Because the truth is that while I am far smaller and more incapable than I like to admit, God is infinitely bigger and more capable than I ever hoped. Job discovered that. And it set him free. I hope this message—“The Freedom of Humiliation"—sets you free too.

The only consistency in the exercise of my faith is how inconsistently I exercise my faith: I trust God with some things and not with others; I believe and I don’t believe; I love God and I betray him; I follow God and I also run away from him; I rejoice and I rebel. If my hope rests on the strength of my faith, I’m in trouble. Job’s story proves that God’s love and care for us does not wane when our faith weakens. It proves that the strength of God’s faithfulness to you does not depend on the strength of your faith. We are, in fact, loved by a God who never stops bending toward us even when we bend away from him. We hope this message—“Our God Bends”—is a huge encouragement to you.

Religion may offend us because it tells us what to do, and we don’t like being told what to do. But grace can offend us even more because it tells us that there’s nothing we can do. And if there’s one thing that offends us more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything We naturally resist grace because it has nothing to do with us and our efforts and therefore it wrestles leverage out of our hands—we can’t buy God’s blessing with our goodness and that can drive us nuts. The religious currency of keeping the rules and being good may buy us a gold star here and some respect there, but it can’t buy us a gram of affection with God. And in the end, this is unbelievably liberating. We hope this message from Tullian Tchividjian —“Allergic to Grace"—is a huge encouragement to you.

Suffering may take the form of tragedy, heartbreak, or addiction. Or it could be something more mundane like resentment, loneliness, or disappointment. Suffering may be the shocking news of a brain tumor, or it can be something more ordinary like a strained relationship that never seems to get easier. The point is, we all suffer. Pain is unavoidable And we all know that when it comes to suffering, there’s no such thing as "snapping out of it.” Job knew this firsthand. If his story teaches us anything at all, it teaches us that there are no easy answers to suffering. Someone once said that "mercy is the permission to be human." In other words, it’s ok to doubt, to be confused, to wonder—to be completely human. But what will ultimately heal us and help us is what ultimately healed and helped Job: an encounter with the gravity of God’s grace. We hope this sermon—“Beyond Deserving"—is a huge encouragement to you.

In this message entitled “Grace, not Karma", I ask the question: why do so many Christians believe that God doles out misery in proportion to our sin—that pain is God’s pay back for bad behavior? Why do so many of us assume, like Job’s friends, that the suffering we endure is God’s punishment for what we've done? And the answer is, because we don’t truly believe that God is a God of grace. The funny thing is, the sins you think God is still punishing you for, He doesn’t even remember: “For I will forgive their wickedness and remember their sins no more” (Hebrews 8:12). Because of Jesus, “your sin is cast into the sea of God’s forgotten memory.” Robert Capon said that “If God has announced anything in Jesus, it is that he has pensioned off the bookkeeping department permanently.” Amen! I hope this message encourages you greatly…

Be blessed with today's sermon, delivered by Stacie Tchividjian. Romans 6:23

Do you ever feel like God would relieve you of your pain if he really loved you? And because he hasn’t, it makes you feel like he doesn’t care? I have felt that way. I’m sure you have too. But what if God NOT relieving you of your pain right now is proof that he DOES care? What if God is working for you in ways you can’t see and doing things for you that you can’t feel IN your pain? I think this message from Job 2:11-13 entitled “God's Dreadful Withdrawal” will encourage you.

As difficult and tormenting as suffering, pain, failure, and loss are, they are the very things God uses to produce the most good in us and the most good for us. Qualities like empathy, humility, wisdom, depth of feeling, and insight cannot be developed apart from agony and affliction. It was Fyodor Dostoevsky, in fact, who said, “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” I don’t know what you’re going through—what your current crucible of ache is—but I think this message from Job 1:20-21 will be a great encouragement to you.

What do two people who have failed miserably at marriage have to say about the subject of marriage? Take a listen and find out...

This is Part 2 in a series through the book of Job, Tullian has entitled “Glorious Ruin.” In this message—“Grief as Worship"—we see that sadness and grief and frustration and confusion in the face of pain and suffering is sanctioned by God. In other words, it’s OK to mourn. Sadly, the required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches has produced a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. But the Bible doesn’t brush lightly over pain. Nowhere do we see God taking a “suck it up and deal with it” posture toward hurt. Jesus is, after all, the Man of Sorrows, the crucified God who meets us in our grief. We hope this message encourages you greatly… Job 1:13-22

Yesterday Tullian began a new series on the Biblical book of Job entitled “Glorious Ruin.” In this first message, he talks about suffering. When most of us think about suffering we think of death, disease, divorce, depression—you know, the "big" stuff, crises. But suffering is much bigger and broader than that. Everyday things like frustration, disappointment, anxiety, fear, insecurity, loneliness, sadness, a nagging sense of not-enoughness, the feeling of being misunderstood, rejected—it’s all suffering. We all suffer. Pain is unavoidable. And while we may search high and low for answers as to why we’re suffering, we don’t need answers as much as we need God’s presence in our pain. It’s not relief that we ultimately need, it’s God. It’s not answers that we ultimately need, it’s God. In other words, what we need most is the presence of God, not the absence of suffering. And while God never promised that he would rescue us from pain and trouble in this life, he did promise to be with us and to be for us IN our pain and troubles. Our suffering may not be going anywhere, but either is God!

This week’s sermon was delivered by Stacie Tchividjian. If you have places in your life that feel barren, void and empty…take a listen as Stacie shares the story of Hannah from 1 Samuel 1:4-18.

Be blessed with today's sermon delivered by Russ Johnson of Lark Ministries https://larksite.com/

Do you ever feel like God has forgotten you? Like he doesn’t care about your trouble? Like he’s against you, not for you? Have you ever experienced a season in life when God seems distant, detached, indifferent? If so, then we hope Tullian's message from Psalm 42 entitled "Where is God?" will be a huge encouragement to you.

This past Sunday, Tullian preached on Psalm 23 as a part of his series, “A Song for All Seasons.” His sermon focused primarily on Psalm 23:6, where David writes: “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Many Bible scholars and commentators have pointed out that the word “follow” in that verse is a weak translation of what the Hebrew word truly means. It doesn’t simply mean to follow. It means to pursue, to hunt down, to chase. It’s not just that God’s goodness and mercy follow us all of our days, watching us from a safe distance. No. They harass us, they dog us, they persistently pursue us. All the days of our lives, we are pursued by God’s mercy, chased by God’s grace, hunted by God’s goodness—harassed by God’s love. We hope this message encourages you massively…

Tullian preached this message—“You Can’t Do It…And That’s Good News”—back in May at Valley Church in Vacaville, California. It begins with the assertion that Christianity is, at its core, anti-religious. Wait. What? We think this will encourage you 😊 https://thesanctuaryjupiter.com

Be blessed today as Tullian Tchividjian preaches from Psalm 62.