Ascension Church

10/24/2026

Join us this Sunday at 11AM for Worship!

The Deepest Truth: Love Serves | Mark 10:32-45

Reflections:

He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30

Do all the good you can by all the means you can in all the ways you can in all the places you can at all the times you can to all the people you can as long as ever you can
- John Wesley

God is not greater if you reverence him, but you are greater if you serve him.
- Augustine

How can I make my team better? How can I make the guys around me better?”
—Aaron Judge, describing Cal Raleigh’s approach to leadership

More heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
- Henry Ward Beecher

For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45

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10/23/2026

Last Sunday we asked our community one simple question: Why do you go to church?❤️

Here are just a few honest, inspiring and heartfelt answers written on post-it notes. No matter where you are on your faith journey: there is a place for you here ✨

Come join us on Sundays at 11:00 AM at P.S. 101, 2 Russel Pl, Queens, NY 11375.

10/17/2026

Join us this Sunday at 11 am for Worship!

A Mind Full of Someone Else
Luke 7:11-17

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
-Isaiah 53:3–4

Compassion is your pain in my heart. - Jon Courson

One of the greatest gifts we can give another person is our undivided attention. In a distracted age, attentiveness is an expression of love. - Paul Miller

His heart is still as compassionate as when He was upon earth. - J.C. Ryle

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus - Philippians 2:5

10/10/2026

Join us this Sunday at 11 am for Worship!

Go the Distance
Hebrews 12:1-3

Reflection:
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by 'looking unto Jesus.’
— Charles Spurgeon

Don't just ask, 'Is this thing a sin?' Instead ask, 'Does this help me run?' Not how many sins can I avoid? But how can I be fleet-footed in the way of holiness?
—John Piper

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and s*x and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
—C. S. Lewis

10/03/2026

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Truth and Love: A Treasure Worth Your Everything
Mark 10:23-31

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
—Matthew 13:44

How do we overcome the spiritual “power” of money? Not by accumulating more money, not by using money for good purposes, not by being just and fair in our dealings. The law of money is the law of accumulation, of buying and selling. That is why the only way to overcome the spiritual “power” of money is to give our money away, thus desacralizing it and freeing ourselves from its control… To give away money is to win a victory over the spiritual power that oppresses us.
—Jacques Ellul

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
—1 Timothy 6:17

09/26/2026

Join us for worship this Sunday at 11:00 AM!

Title: Truth and Love: Loved Enough to Be Told the Truth
Scripture: Mark 10:17-31
Stream: https://youtube.com/live/PiePQyEvSHA?feature=share

Reflections:

Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, ‘You lack one thing.’
—Mark 10:21

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws.
—Tim Keller

Love … rejoices in the truth.
—1 Corinthians 13:6

09/19/2026

Join us for worship this Sunday at 11:00AM as we take a look at Acts 2:37-47 and "From Crowd to Covenant: Finding a Place to Belong."

Reflections:

To be at home is to be known. It is to be loved for who you are.
— Vivek Murthy

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear.
— Tim Keller

… Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
— Ephesians 5:25b - 27

09/12/2026

Join us at PS 101 tomorrow at 11:00 AM!

Title: The Preeminence of Christ, Even in the Age of AI
Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20, 2:8

Reflections:

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
— Genesis 2:15

“And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.”
— Ecclesiastes 1:13

Stream:

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09/05/2026

See you tomorrow, September 6, at 11:00 AM at American Legion, 107-15 Metropolitan Ave, Forest Hills, NY 11375!

Title: Yom Kippur: A Ritual That Won't Go Away Quietly
Scripture: Leviticus 16:1-34 (NASB)

Reflections:

The singular form of Yom Kippur does not occur in the Bible and is a later usage, reflecting the replacement of the high priest by the individual worshipper, whose fasting and prayer are conceived of by Jewish tradition as a single atoning act. In contemporary Israeli Hebrew, both Yom Kippur and Yom ha-Kippurim are in use, although the singular form is the more common of the two.
—Philologos, “At-one-ment,” September 19, 2007

Prayer, repentance, and charity/good works are sufficient to overturn any evil decree against us.
—Formula for how Jews procure atonement today, which emerged from the Conference at Yavneh in AD 90.

“There lie two ways before me this day, one leading to Paradise and the other to Gehinnom [hell and torment], and I do not know by which I shall be taken.”
—Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai's deathbed confession as quoted by the Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 28b

"May this be my exchange, may this be my substitute, may this be my atonement. May this chicken go to its death while I enter and proceed to a good long life, and peace.”
—Prayer in the Kapparot Ritual offered by Orthodox Jews on the Eve of Yom Kippur.

“For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.”
—Leviticus 17:11 (NASB)

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
—Hebrews 9:22 (NASB)

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God
—1 Peter 3:18 (NASB)

09/04/2026

🚨 LOCATION UPDATE: This Sunday, September 6 at 11:00 AM, Ascension Church will meet at Forest Hills American Legion, 107-15 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375. We look forward to worshiping with you!