Ascension Lutheran Church Podcast

It's Not a One and Done

During this season of lent with it’s special emphasis on spiritual disciplines and the giving up of certain things it is tempting to think that we are really making some improvements only to realize that the next big change awaits us. It can be discouraging.

A Reunion Not to Miss

Right or wrong I’m not one for high school reunions. I had some great friends in high school, but if they aren’t attending, I feel no tug to reunite with the others. Some classmates I contact occasionally. One classmate I contact every day. Dianne started out as a high school classmate.

Fruitless Fruit Trees???

Jesus told a quick story about a certain fruit tree that did not bear any fruit. You will hear this parable in the gospel reading from Luke this coming Sunday.

Joining Jesus In His Fieldwork

My love for playing in the dirt started young. Both my grandparents were farmers in Perry County, MO, one outside Longtown, the other outside Old Appleton. I loved riding on the tractor with grandpa mowing hay or cultivating corn.

Making the Grade

Do you believe Jesus has given you a spot in His home? That His performance makes up for your lack thereof? That your relationship with God is eternally good and can never, never be taken away from you?

Remembering When Love Was New

When you think back to when you first felt the fire and reality that God was real and part of your life what comes to mind? When you think back to when your love for God was new and fresh, what was it that was especially notable and wonderful?

Jesus Never Treats Us as Our Behaviors Deserve.

God treating us with such love should change how we treat others. It should give us eyes that see the person behind the product. The child of God behind the desk. Behind the face.

In The Challenges of Life

“The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” Zephaniah 3:17

40 Spiritual Practices for the 40 Days of Lent

Perhaps you have never done anything for Lent. Or maybe you have always done the same thing every year and with that repetition it has lost its edge. Here are 40 spiritual disciplines to choose from this Lenten season. Daily Devotional for Lent https://www.ascension-lcms.org/_files/ugd/f0f9a9_488936e9b9834cccb2406b723fa677ec.pdf

Life Consists of Many Trips Adding Up to One Long Journey

Sometimes with side-excursions planned out and eagerly anticipated. Other times with detours unseen and unwanted.