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Ascension Lutheran Church Podcast
Ascension Lutheran Church's mission is to make Jesus famous by connecting people to God, growing in relationship to one another, and serving our community and the world.
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I Want To Be Closer To God - How About You?
The Psalmist wrote in Psalm 42, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When…
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God's Greatest Gift
The catalogue arrived old school. Compliments of the US Postal Service. I didn’t know companies still sent them. I remember my parents getting the Sears…
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Fond Memories From Childhood
In our elementary school lunchroom we had this picture of Jesus hanging on the wall and I loved it. I imagined myself as the kid with the airplane looking…
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Good Memories To Share
On Tuesday evening the conversation soon morphed into a cassette tape journey down memory lane. My high school years have been labeled the cassette tape era of…
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Ascension Lutheran Grade School
Sunday, September 28 was our Foundations of Faith Capital Campaign commitment Sunday. And I am excited to share with you the results. Keeping in mind that this…
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Is Bad Luck a Real Thing?
The book of Ecclesiastes provides an unvarnished look at reality. There is a flaw in the system that is designed to reward the good and unless you understand…
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Jesus & Poached Eggs
I’m a big egg guy. Could eat them every day. Do eat them almost every day especially now since I’m suppose to drastically limit carbs and sugar. I gravitate…
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Is Society Getting Worse?
I used to enjoy watching the nightly news at 5:30pm each night, but not any more.
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A New Way to See Life
Situations and events wreak the same havoc on our view. Causes us to see things disproportionately.
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What Is the Right Age for Baptism?
Acts chapter 2 Peter reminds us that Baptism is for you and your children.
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Receive Onesimus As A Brother
Paul wrote to the slave owner Philemon about his runaway slave. Paul does not condemn him for owning another human being or even scold him wrongness of…
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Give Yourself the grace God Has for You.
Transfer a prescription. Not an easy task. Express Scripts won’t call the local pharmacy for a transfer. You have to get your doctor to send them a new…
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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
But the wisdom of Proverbs comes in couplets and the end the second part of Proverbers of 14:4 states, “but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.”
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Gratitude and Joy Go Together
The $12 car wash failed on multiple levels. I passed up the $20 version. The scrubbing strips seemed to miss major portions of my truck. The tires look like…
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Paid In Full
The card arrived compliments of the mail carrier. Encouraging me to better understand how my property taxes get decided. Something about “revenue neutral…
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It's An Exciting Time At Ascension
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Remember This Stated During the Shut Down
This devotion is my 250th saved devotion. I say “saved” because there were other devotions in the beginning that I did not save. I never thought I would…
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We Would Rather Feel Right Than Be Right
I have made a few videos about ChatGPT and other large language models In which I have sung their praises. But after using ChatGPT and other Apps like grok and…
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Who Is the Real Man of Steel?
It's hard for me as a pastor not to view movies in the light of theology. It used to bother my wife when we were first married, but I can't stop seeing…
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Keep the Door Open to Reconciliation
We want all of our relationships to be good. Our hearts sense “former” shouldn’t define friends.
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Law & Gospel Divide and The Exhortations of Paul
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He’s Taken Care of Your User Error.
The online check register attested to $435 more in the account than my paper checkregister. I was concerned. But it was a good kind of concern.
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I Am Getting Older but Not Wiser
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Search me, God, and Know My Heart
Varmints. Raccoons and squirrels. They have developed a taste for my tomatoes that I want and need to turn into spaghetti sauce, ketchup, salsa, soup, and…
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Celebrating 32 Years of Ministry This Day
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Virtual Reality and True Reality
This past February, I attended a church conference called Best Practices. It’s a gathering of Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod church workers sharing ideas…
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Restore Gently
In family life, say nothing of congregational life, when we see someone doing something that is not right, we often swing hard to one extreme to the other. We…
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Ascension Lutheran Grade School - Banquet Night July 26
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Good News To Share
I am thankful for the gift of medicine and technology our God has given us. I am praying the cancer cells don’t come back or reactivate. Join me in rejoicing…
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Filled With the Spirit
The amazing truth that confronts each of us today is that the Holy Spirit is just as active today and, in our lives, as he was on the day of Pentecost.
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Eye Witness of the Resurrection
This coming Sunday is the last Sunday of Easter until the completion of the 50 day Easter celebration that ends with Pentecost and the coming of the Holy…
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You Are Not Alone
Ascension is the day we celebrate Jesus transitioning from being at one place physically, to be present everywhere, always with us, always showing up somehow…
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You Are Now Part of the Family
It is hard for us to remember that Christianity isn’t our religion, but we were outsiders who have been adopted into the Jewish family, by the Jewish Messiah.
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The Holy Spirit Brings Growth Year After Year
Earlier this Spring, I was cleaning up the corner flower bed by our front door. We have a large River Birch that grows there and its leaves still covered a…
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You Saw That?
I came across an interesting article last week by Kelsey Borresen from the online version of Huffpost. And if you are raising or have raised children, I think…
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Indulge and Enjoy
God treats you with never-ending love. An always-present ear. A forever-attentive eye. He treats you with His Son. His Spirit. His heart longing for your heart.
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What Are You Leaving Behind?
As a kid, glitter was this magical sparkle that could be added to any art project, and it would make even the most mundane picture a masterpiece. My thinking…
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The Hard and the Easy
You belong to Jesus. Your ending is resurrection. You and the rest of the world will one day experience a grandiose makeover where all who belong to Jesus will…
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Lots of Fun Coming Your Way
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Easter Joy
What a mess. Not only had Jesus been tragically taken from those who so dearly loved him. Not only had he suffered so terrible at the hands of the authorities…
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A New Command I Give You
Last week, being Holy Week, reminded me once again of one of my most egregious errors. I’m sure I was taught in seminary. I guess. Or else they simply assumed…
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Let The Good of This Friday Sink In
What makes God’s grace so amazing isn’t that it is free and that you need do nothing, but that God offers his grace as we actively resist his offer fighting…
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Every Life Contains Bad News
After weeks of anxious waiting, the surgeon revealed the results. I hadn’t expected the word he used.
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Philosophy for Living
Walmart is an interesting place to people watch and at my last visit I was not disappointed.
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Teaching the Faith to the Next Generation
Some people prefer unadulterated coffee. I’ve always been a flavored creamer guy. Not milk. Too thin and watery. I want the substance and thickness a little…
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I Will Counsel You With My Loving Eye On You - Psalm 32:8
As we come near to Holy week and the passion story of our Lord Jesus. One little moment caught my attention as I was reading my devotional materials at home…
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Taken With God's Goodness
Such is God’s desire for us when talking of Him and His Son.
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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…
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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…
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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.