Ascension Church

06/21/2026

Join us this Sunday for the Sermon “Lives that Count” on Psalm 1.

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06/14/2026

Join us this Sunday for The Holy Spirit’s Supreme Role In The Believer on Ephesians 5:18.

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The Spirit-filled life is not a special experience for a few saints, but a daily availability to God for humble, practical obedience.
— John Stott
The daily fullness of the Spirit is not a luxury for the spiritual elite, but the normal condition of the believer.
— R.A. Torrey

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06/07/2026

Join us this Sunday for Rejoicing in God’s Deliverance on Psalm 116.

The Psalms are among the oldest poems in the world, and they still rank with any poetry in any culture, ancient or modern, from anywhere in the world. They are full of power and passion, horrendous misery and unrestrained jubilation, tender sensitivity and powerful hope. Anyone at all whose heart is open to new dimensions of human experience, anyone who loves good writing, anyone who wants a window into the bright lights and the dark corners of the human soul—anyone open to the beautiful expression of a larger vision of reality should react to these poems like someone who hasn’t had a good meal for a week or two. It’s all there.
— N. T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms

Think of Ps 116. There is a cloud that hovers over it, for it celebrates no more than temporary deliverance from death and distress. For everyone who lives to write such a song, there are scores who do not, and even those who do will eventually pass into the silence of “Sheol” (Ps 116:3). A cynical friend might say that the joy of the psalm actually (if unintentionally) mocks us in the light of what is bound to come: “Kidney cancer may not have done you in, but something else will!” But when we imagine Jesus singing Ps 116 with us on history’s last day, the cloud lifts and the mocking goes silent . . . We begin to grasp that every deliverance we have enjoyed in this life, whether large or small, every new morning after a hard night, has been a promise of something greater. For Jesus has entered our story to carry us through it, through death itself, and bring us home.
— Charles D. Drew, Singing with Emmanuel: How to Meet Jesus in the Psalm

05/30/2026

Join us this Sunday for Flee from Idolatry on 1 Corinthians 10:14-22.

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The human heart is a perpetual idol factory.
— John Calvin

Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
— Rebecca Pippert

05/23/2026

This Sunday at 11:00 AM!

Title: Moving Forward Towards True Rest
Scripture: Hebrews 3:7-19
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Reflections:

Great You are, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Your power, and Your wisdom is infinite. You would we praise without ceasing. You call us to delight in Your praise, for You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts find not rest until we rest in You; to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit all glory, praise, and honor be ascribed, both now and forevermore.
— St. Augustine

As by nature we are prone to fall into evil, we have need of various helps to help us in the fear of God. Unless our faith is repeatedly encouraged, it lies dormant; unless it is warmed, it grows cold; unless it is aroused, it gets numb. [The writer of Hebrews] therefore wishes them to stimulate one another by mutual encouragement, so that Satan will not steal into their hearts and by his falsehoods lead them away from God.
— John Calvin

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05/16/2026

Join us this Sunday for “God of Compassion” a sermon on Jonah 4.

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You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? —Psalm 56: 8

Throughout life’s journey, as you encounter both “plants” that make you comfortable and happy and “worms” that remove comfort or company from your life, you can find encouragement in knowing that you’re not held in the grip of some blind, fatalistic force. Rather, your heavenly Father, who holds you with a loving embrace, is ordering everything that He might achieve His ultimate purpose in your life: to make you more like His Son and bring you home to His side. —Alistair Begg, Truth for Life

05/09/2026

Join us this Sunday May 10 for the sermon Get Off Your Throne! on Jonah 3.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ‘All things’ must mean every thing, or it means nothing. Yes, even sin. God is as great as this in his grace. He works in our lives so that we may be ready for that moment when the word of the Lord comes a second time.
—Sinclair Ferguson, Man Overboard!

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
—2 Peter 3:8-9

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05/03/2026

Join us this Sunday! Our sermon: A Tale of Two Disparate Men, Two Disparate Eternities

Luke 16:19-31

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It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.
—Hebrews 9:27
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
—Matthew 6:19-21 (NASB)
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?
—Matthew 16:26 (NASB)
The rich man did not go to hell because of his wealth but because he lacked faith and compassion by refusing to feed Lazarus, take him in, or care for him.
—Pastor Darrell Koop, Upwards Church
(The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus is) Perhaps one of the scariest and most brilliant stories ever told. In it, we are introduced to a rich man who has everything this world can possibly give him. And then to a poor man who has nothing but pain and suffering. Such is the way of the world—but this world is not all that there is.
—Josh Moody, president and founder of God Centered Life Ministries

04/25/2026

Join is this Sunday for the sermon We Have A Kinsman Redeemer on Ruth 2.

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The best way to use the gold of the redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
—Saint Ambrose
Why does he give when it’s natural to take? Where does he see all the good he can see and what does he want of me?
—Aldonza, “Man of La Mancha”

04/18/2026

Join us for our Sunday Service! We will have a Sermon on Luke 20:9-19 titled Unfaithful Stewardship, Faithful Judgment.

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Since the beginning of creation humanity has sought to be like God without obeying God (Gen 3:5), to become lords of Eden rather than stewards of it. What is the sum total of human history if not the attempt to rid the universe of God so that humanity can rule supreme? The tenants of the vineyard are the ultimate expression of human rebellion: they kill the heir and seize the inheritance for themselves.
— James Edwards
This reference (“beloved Son”) back to the heavenly voice reminds the reader that God’s final envoy is neither prophet nor angel, but his Son, whom he has also appointed to be the Davidic Messiah.
— Diane Chen