The peace Jesus offers us is not the fake peace of denial or dishonesty. His is a truth-telling peace. The kind of deep, life-changing peace that doesn’t hesitate to break…
My friends, today’s gospel message from Jesus is a gift intended to equip us to hear and believe and live into God’s promise that God wants to give us the…
If prayer, as Jesus teaches it, really is all about relationship and presence then there’s only one answer to every prayer – God.
Jesus asks, “Who was this man’s neighbor?” But there’s also an underlying question that Jesus is asking, “Do you see your neighbor?” It’s one thing to acknowledge that you are…
Pastor Chris reviews 12 years at Ascension and gets ready for sabbatical.
It is the Holy Spirit who has made it possible for the gospel to be proclaimed in two languages in this place. It is the Holy Spirit who meets us…
Jesus meets us in the cemeteries of our lives and calls us out. Jesus calls us to life! Jesus calls us to see clearly the suffering in this life and…
Christ’s peace will always be with us as a gift to reassure us and give us confidence in our times of struggle and chaos, and amid painful loss and grief.…
“I give you a new commandment,” says Jesus, “that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know…
God came down from heaven through Jesus our Good Shepherd to restore our personal relationship as sheep with God. He as our Good Shepherd who knows his sheep, gave his…