Ascension Lutheran Church Podcast

Pride Is a Boulder on Your Drive

What needs changing in your life so that people enjoy driving next to you more often? What proud structures need tearing down and removing so that people stop getting stuck? Humility is a good thing. It was a core trait of Jesus.

Grace for the Day

Most people and certainly not I myself, pursue difficult and pressing challenges, but they are the very times that God also proves himself.

The Sermon - Pastor Scott - ”The Job Promotion”

Sermon from April 17, 2023 at Tyler Campus

Living Hope Through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ From the Dead

There is so much in these of these words of I Peter 1: 3-9 to talk about. There is so much to be excited about and encouraged by that you really need to take these words and just live with them for awhile and read and reread them until your heart, soul and mind can soak them in.

The Sermon - Pastor Scott - ”Why Mary Magdalene?”

Sermon from April 9th, 2023 at Tyler Campus

Back From the Dead

I’ve always wondered what Lazarus thought. How he felt. To be at the dinner. Reclining with the other guests. Looking forward to popping a few olives in his mouth. Washing them down with some wine. When just a few days ago he was in a tomb.

Why Would Jesus Endure the Cross?

Today is Good Friday. Our Lord was marched out of Jerusalem after a quick trial in which an angry mob decided his fate. So badly beaten and abused his cross had to be carried by a stranger. At any moment Jesus could have called on his father and Legions of arm angels would have rescued him from his impending doom but he did not call.

Just Can’t Throw It Out

“Wasteful” was how the disciples felt one evening a few days before Jesus’ crucifixion. At a dinner in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman dumped a jar of expensive perfume on Jesus’ head.

“Why this waste?” Judas asked. “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.”

The Sermon - Pastor Aaron - ”Falsely Accused” - Isaiah 50:4-9

Sermon from April 2nd, 2023 at Tyler Campus

So What Did You Learn?

First I want to say that I have never felt more weak in my own strength and yet strong in the strength of Jesus. He was my constant companion and my rock that did not waver even when I was a wilted reed. Even during the most overwhelming moments of this experience I came to the firm conviction that I would rather go through this challenge with Jesus than to not have the challenge without Jesus. He is the one thing that I cannot and will not live without. Come what may.