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The Light of Resurrection

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! What a joy it is to live in these Easter days. Regardless of the current state of the world, the suffering we
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Easter Doesn’t End

“I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” John 14:6 The Easter season doesn’t end on Easter Sunday morning. It continues – quietly and persistently, like the shift
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Little Easters Every Day

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah
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Summer Worship Begins

Our summer worship schedule begins on Pentecost Sunday, Memorial Day Weekend, Sunday, May 24, when our worship schedule moves to 8:30 and 10 a.m. We will use these worship times
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Jesus riding a donkey on Palm Sunday.

Until Sunday

If ever there was a moment of divine intervention in the world before the shouts of, “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia,” it may very well be the
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March Madness

“He is not here, for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.” Matthew 28:6 As I’m writing this my favorite time of year
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The Gift of Resurrection

We have completed another Lenten journey here at Ascension. Yet, for many in our community, the “wilderness” does not end with the season. Many of us find ourselves on paths
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Holy Week 2026

Holy Week will once again offer us the power of the story of God’s love for us. Palm Sunday, March 29 8:30a & 10:45a (English), 10:45a (en Español) We will
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Lenten Worship

Here at Ascension, the season of Lent is measured in bowls of soup and first communion classes and new member conversations and stories of the presence of Jesus transforming the
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My Favorite Story

For a time, in church, I must have used an opening line one too many times. At the beginning of one sermon too many, I began with the words, “this
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The Promise of Spring

“…Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.” Psalm 30:5 (NLT)  I think most of us would agree that we’ve had enough of Winter and we’re
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We Choose Welcome

Taking advantage of a rare 60-degree day just before Ash Wednesday, I decided it was time to clean the pavilion in the Memorial Garden. Because of the lingering cold and
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