The Sanctuary Church of Beech Grove

05/31/2026

Good morning Everyone Happy Sunday hope everyone had a great, here is the link for today's live service.

Title: Promise Keeping Provider
Verse: Genesis 21-22

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05/29/2026

Friday's Food for Thought 🤔 💭

Sanctuary Family;

As I was praying about this weeks Friday's Food for Thought, I was quickened by the Holy Spirit to remind you of how much God loves you and how much He has proven that love for you. If you've known me very long you know I am blessed by certain words that are used strategically in the word of God. Today we're gonna focus on a 2 letter word, "SO". You've probably heard me say it a lot, but here it comes again; when John 3:16 tells us that God "SO" loved the world, it was one of the most powerful statements in the bible.

In the scriptures we are reminded that God is the God who “so loves…” He so loves the world! He so loves us that He sent His Only Begotten Son to be sacrificed for us. There is no other god who so loved like our God. Even God said He has searched and can find none! Beside our God there is no other. His passion for us shows like the Psalmist wrote: “the heavens burn and the mountains and the hills melt …” because He has come to draw us out of many troubles. We should never allow the enemy or any other false teacher to convince us that He is a far off God because He is not a far off God. He is as close as our next breath and He's even the very beating of our hearts.

So remember this; He stands at the door of our hearts desiring to bring us into relationship with Him as the One who “so loved us” and loves us still even when we didn't or don't deserve it. God doesn't have any reluctance when it comes to loving us and blessing us. If He didn't hesitate to give us as a sacrifice His Only Begotten Son, then how will He not freely give us ALL things? What are you lacking in life today? The power behind God "SO" loves us, says we only need to ask Him for what we need. We can be confident that He will arrive on the scene to change and transform and meet every need we have! All we have to do is ask Him for His loving help. He is standing and waiting for us to ask and we need to expect that He will do exceedingly and abundantly above whatever we ask or are even able to think. This is who He is and what He does and we are in the crosshairs of His divine purpose to bless and empower and deliver us because He is "SO" in love with us.

Let's cling to that powerful 2 letter word today. If He is "SO" in love with us and He proved it through His Son Jesus, then we can trust Him to take care of us, watch over us, provide for us, protect us and get us through everything we face until we get to the finish line. Trust in the one who "SO" loves us today.

Love you all and praying you are blessed today.

Pastor Tim

05/24/2026

Good morning Everyone Happy Sunday hope everyone had a great week, here is the link for today's live service.

Sunday's message is part 7 of the series; "Becoming New"

Message title this week is; "Precious Memories"

Scripture is; Psalm 103

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05/22/2026

Friday's Food for Thought 🤔 💭

Sanctuary Family;

Today's Friday's Food for Thought is important to all of us. Living in condemnation is a spiritual death sentence and we all have to understand that God is our judge and not the devil or us! The devil wants us to live in condemnation and we know ourselves all too good and we begin to agree with the devil that we aren't good enough for God's divine grace, mercy, blessings and favor to flow in our lives. Let me do my best to help us all understand that no matter how bad we've been, no matter how hard we struggle to be good, and no matter what the devil and ourselves think about us, God through His only Son Jesus, has made us worthy of His grace, love, mercy, blessings and favor no matter how rough we are!

How were you first impacted by Jesus? Was it through His grace in your life that touched your heart? We all began our relationship with Jesus because we were impacted by His love and grace in the worst times of our lives. The bible reminds us, "let us then continue in that grace." Paul warned the Galatians against turning back to the law after beginning in grace. He said, “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace [unmerited favor] of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ” (Gal. 1:6–7). Paul takes this very seriously and we should too. He calls any gospel apart from the gospel of grace (God's unmerited favor) a perversion. If we forget grace and start attempting to be justified by our works it causes a perversion of the gospel of Christ. We are saved by GRACE THROUGH FAITH, and not of anything we can do.

Paul asked the church in Galatia point-blank, “Did you receive the Spirit by your works that made you good enough, or by the hearing of grace through faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit of grace, and are you now being made perfect by the weak and frail works?" (Gal. 3:2–3). Paul was saying to them, "You began by believing in His grace, why are you now depending on your works? That is foolishness! You should be continuing in His unmerited favor!” These are strong words by Paul that we should be paying attention to 2,000 years later.

Don’t start with grace and end up with depending on working your way into heaven. Don’t start with the new covenant, only to turn back to the old covenant! There are those who say that they are not justified by the law, but believe that they should keep the law for sanctification. That is correct but we can't forget, both justification and sanctification come by our faith in Jesus' finished work alone. When we are established in the new covenant of grace, we will experience a tremendous sense of confidence and security in Christ. When our confidence is in His unmerited favor and not our performance, we will not feel as if we are constantly jumping in and out of His favor and acceptance. It's awful to live the roller coaster life with all the ups and downs and twist and turns that come with depending on being good enough for God's grace.

It is unfortunate when we put handcuffs on ourselves by allowing the devil to continue telling us that when we mess up or when we fall short, (which we always will), we're not good enough for God's love and grace and He is mad at us and withdraws His favor. Living on this roller coaster causes us to feel that God is on our side when we're good, but at other times when we're bad, we feel that God is far away from us. Sometimes, we feel that God is satisfied with us, but at other times, we feel that God is angry with us. How crazy is that kind of living?

All these feelings are based predominantly on our own evaluation of how we have performed, how we feel about ourselves, and not how God sees us. Because there is no scriptural basis to evaluate ouselves like that, we end up deciding if we deserve God’s blessings and favor in our lives or not, when the truth is, we actually have access to His blessings and favor all the time, simply because of Jesus and His finished works at the cross.

Today, I want us to think, talk and act knowing that it is not about us or our works—it is about Jesus and Him alone, and step out into His blessings for us! What a joyful life we can live if we choose God's grace, love, mercy, blessings and favor, over condemnation!!!

Love you and can't wait to worship with you on Sunday.

Pastor Tim

05/17/2026

Good morning Everyone Happy Sunday hope everyone had a great week, here is the link for today's live service.

This weeks message is #6 in the series; "Becoming New"

The title to this weeks message is; "Pushing Past the Pain"

Scripture is; Luke 8:40-56

05/15/2026

Friday's Food for Thought 🤔 💭

Sanctuary Family;

I want to take a minute with this weeks Friday's Food for Thought and give some encouragement to those who are dealing with physical ailments. There are questions that arise when we face sickness and physical issues. I want to look at this today and give some insight on staying focused on God's promises and some things to remember. What should you do when you continue to have symptoms of sickness or physical problem or what do you do when the enemy keeps reminding you that so-and-so was never healed? Keep on trusting in what God promised and begin to partake of the Holy Communion and thank God that everything you need for your healing has already been supplied through the cross.

Scripture tells us Christ has already redeemed you from the curse of every sickness and disease (Gal. 3:13). When Jesus instituted the Holy Communion took the cup and “gave thanks” (Matt. 26:27). The Greek word for gave thanks is eucharisteo, which means “to express gratitude.” This is why the taking the Holy Communion is also known as the Eucharist. You give thanks for something that is already done, that you have already received. So even if the symptoms are still in your body, you can give thanks and call yourself healed because His Word declares that “by His stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5).

Don’t try to “get” healing for yourself or your loved one. It is already yours! The enemy has been conquered (Col. 2:15). Jesus has already given you divine health. Always remember this: as a believer, you do not fight for victory; you fight from the place of victory. I want to remind you of a very important lesson we learn about looking past our physical and focusing on our promises. Let’s be like Abraham, who was convinced God was able to do what He had promised. Even though Abraham was very advanced in years, he believed God’s promise that He would make him a father of many nations and did not consider his own body or the deadness of his wife Sarah’s womb. (Romans 4:19-21) Read it. We also are reminded of this story: Isaac was born to Abraham when he was already one hundred years old (Gen. 21:5) and when Sarah was about ninety. In the natural, that was impossible as they were both past the natural childbearing age. Abraham could have focused on what he saw in the mirror and what he was being told by others, but he chose to stay focused on the promise and he kept his eyes off his physical condition. Abraham did not consider the deadness of his own body; he considered God’s promise.

In the same way, I encourage everyone; including myself, to be like Abraham? Do not consider the symptoms of sickness in your body. Yes, it is real and it's posing a problem but we have to fix our eyes on Jesus and remember what He went through physically for you and me. He was beaten beyond recognition, tortured, mocked, hanged on a cruel cross so that we could bybass all the physical problems today. We must consider the promise in God’s Word, which declares that by Jesus’ stripes we are already healed. It's not can I be healed? It's not even what do I have to do to be healed! There is nothing we can do that has not already been done; we are already healed! We are healed and when we take the Holy Communion it let's Jesus know we remember what He did and what He went through for our healing. Keep partaking of the Communion in faith, thanking Him that His body was broken so yours might be whole. I do it every single day without fail. We don't have to have a church setting with the grape juice and the bread. We can use whatever we have in our home to represent His body and His blood. It's not what we use to take communion that Jesus sees, it's what's in our hearts when we take the communion that Jesus sees.

I encourage you to begin partaking of the Holy Communion as much as you need, and then just like the children of Israel, get ready for healing and keep expecting your physical deliverance.

Love you all so much and can't wait to worship with you on Sunday.

Pastor Tim

05/10/2026

Good morning Everyone Happy Mother's day to all the wonderful Mother's, here is the link for today's live service.

Message title is; "God's Love"
Scriptures are; John 3:16, 1 Corinthians 13, Psalm 136 and Romans 8

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05/09/2026

Friday's Food for Thought 🤔

Sanctuary Family;

While praying about this weeks Friday's Food for Thought, I was nudged by the Holy Spirit about something we all deal with at times in our walk with the Lord. There are those times where we don't feel qualified to serve God. We feel like we have too many flaws, and shortcomings to fulfill any kind of purpose for God. We begin to talk ourselves out of working for the Lord because we fear failure is worse than not doing anything at all. This is a trick of the devil and a very dangerous position to allow the devil to push us into.

A long time ago, when I first started preaching, my spiritual mentor at the time said to me, “There’s nothing wrong with God and nothing wrong with His Word. When we don’t receive from God, there’s something wrong with us.” So that’s what I have tried to keep in mind and always teach to others. I always want people to be healed and whole, and that’s why I teach the reasons they are not receiving their healings, and blessings, and those reasons can keep growing.

I had to learn to, “Stop disqualifying My people!” I didn't realize at times I was saying things too much that reminded people of their failures and mistakes, adding to their feelings of being disqualified. That was a slap in the face to me by the Holy Spirit. Even though I felt like I was actually showing people a way to qualify themselves for blessing, I was hindering them. My eyes were opened, and I repented. I cannot qualify anyone for healing, and blessing and neither can anyone else but God. God has already qualified us through the blood of His Son Jesus. The Word of God tells us this so clearly.

Today we can give thanks to our loving Heavenly Father who has already qualified us. We are already qualified to take part in every blessing. Not only that, He has already delivered us from the power of darkness and made us son's and daughters. That means the devil no longer has any hold over us. He has no power over us. He has no authority to rob us of our health or any blessings. Whatever sin we might have committed, whatever mistakes we might have made, we need to stop disqualifying ourselves. Maybe we don’t think we deserve to be healed or receive blessings because of all the junk that we've went through for years or because we haven’t been doing all the right things. Nothing we can do is so bad it can wash away the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Yes, we should do our best to take care of our bodies and our spirit. But what I am saying is we need to be thankful to Jesus that even if we've made mistakes and haven't done everything we should, we are not disqualified and we don’t have to keep disqualifying ourselves. That’s what grace is about—grace is for the undeserving! Grace is the only QUALIFIER! This means we are definitely qualified to receive all that Jesus gave us on the cross and through the resurrection.

There is nothing wrong with God, nothing wrong with His Word, and definitely nothing wrong with us because Jesus has effectively and perfectly removed all your sins through His blood. He has already qualified us to freely receive His healing and all the blessings He has for us. We can shout it and boldly declare “Yes” and “Amen” to this promise of God in Christ. Now receive your healing and blessings!

(2 Corinthians 1:20) For all the promises of God are Yes and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us!

Love you all and praying to see you on Sunday - Mother's Day

Pastor Tim

05/03/2026

Good morning Everyone Happy Sunday hope everyone had a great week, here is the link for today's live service.

Sunday's message is part 5 of "Becoming New"
Message title is; "PERSISTENT FAITH"
Scriptures are; Daniel 3 and Matthew 24:13

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05/01/2026

Sanctuary Family;

After spending time with a family who has lost someone they loved and who was so important to them, I noticed that a lot of of them, especially the children and grandchildren could only grown in pain. On this Friday's Food for Thought, I want to remind everyone of the scripture in Exodus chapter 2:23-24 where it talks about the children of Israel groaning to God because of their bo***ge. Now, the take away from this scripture is that God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant and he delivered them. Isn’t it awesome to know that when we don’t know what to say and we don’t know how to pray, that our groan will reach the throne!

Our enemy wants to keep us enslaved to our bad situations in life. He wants to keep us in a place of despair and to keep us so focused on our disappointments and heartbreak that we cannot lay hold on God’s promises for us. That is what he did to the children of Israel. When Moses told the Israelites that God would rescue them from their bo***ge, the Bible tells us “they refused to listen” as they had “become too discouraged by the brutality of their slavery” (Ex. 6:6–9 NLT).

But God did not abandon them even though they refused to listen. He knew they were in a state of despair because they had suffered under the yoke of slavery for so long. Do you want to know what the children of Israel did that caused God to rescue them? They groaned!
The children of Israel were so oppressed that all they could do was groan. There was nothing left in them to compose any prayers and the Bible tells us God heard their groaning and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Have you been in that place of groaning? Are you in that place of growning today? I want you to remember, that just a groan will reach the throne. A simple sigh from us will reach the throne room of our loving Father in heaven. If just a groan from the children of Israel could activate the covenant God had made with their forefathers, how much more would our groans accomplish, because of what Jesus did for us?

If you are in a place of discouragement about your present situation, cry out to Him! Groan if you have to!
Let’s expect our miracle to take place, expecting our deliverance. That’s what the Israelites did despite their suffering, and they came out with not one sick, not one feeble.
I want to see that happening for all of us. We may not yet be in a place where we can say there are “none feeble among us,” but I believe we are on our way.

Love you and appreciate you. Praying you have a wonderful day today.

Pastor