Reflections
Good Friday – Unstoppable Unfolding Events
Pastor Daniel’s sermon for Good Friday, 2017. Luke 23:32-47 We’re plagued with the question: How is it that we drug God into this? That we drag God into this? That God becomes subject of the same machine, the same unfolding events, the same death?
Posted on April 14, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
Sermon Palm Sunday: Our King Came Humbly on a Donkey’s Colt
On Palm Sunday, we join the high praise for Jesus coming to the place of power. What we often miss is that this high praise is for one riding a donkey’s colt. Jesus is one who comes humbly. This humility defined his ministry and guides us in our understandings of what we […]
Posted on April 9, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Dan Holt
Week VI: Perspectives – A Weekly Lenten Devotional
Through this Lenten season, you are invited to read reflections offered by members and friends of Ascension Lutheran Church. There will be six booklets printed from now until Easter Sunday. Each devotional booklet will focus on engaging Sunday’s Scripture readings. Let Sunday be a time when you hear God’s Word in worship together of our […]
Posted on April 8, 2017 | Posted by Mary Stoneback
Holy Week – One Story Lived Over Many Days
Some things are too big to fit into one day. Some things are too rich to be grasped in one sitting. Some things are too true to be understood, they must be lived. And so we enter into Holy Week, one story told and lived over many days. Join us as we walk the path […]
Posted on April 6, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
There is another way
Pastor Daniel’s Sermon on 4/2/17 on Luke 19:1-10, the story of Jesus and Zacchaeus. “This faith thing isn’t easy. It changes you. It changes your heart. And you can almost see it coming as you peek around the leaves of that tree. But then Jesus sees you and initiates the very change you fear. The […]
Posted on April 3, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
Living Well
Pastor Karen Matuska’s sermon on Romans 8 for our fourth Wednesday night Lent service.
Posted on March 30, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
Sermon from Luther on the Rich Man and Lazarus 3-26-17
In commemorating this 500th anniversary of the Reformation, I have reworked a sermon of Martin Luther’s on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. I took some liberties to shorten and smooth it out into English. The sermon still applies well. Follow the link if you are interested in listening in on […]
Posted on March 26, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Dan Holt
Room for Mercy – 3/19/2017
Pastor Daniel’s sermon for March 19, 2017 on the parable of the prodigal son, Luke 15:11-32. Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found. […]
Posted on March 19, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Daniel
Gather Us In All Peoples Together Sermon on Luke 13
Jesus revealed that God’s desire is to gather us in as a hen gathers in her chicks. Jesus said this in a world full of predators. Jesus said this in a world that seems to keep dividing apart over all kinds of issues. Listen in to find your way to be gathered in to […]
Posted on March 13, 2017 | Posted by Pastor Dan Holt
Beneath the Cross: What Happens When We Die?
Pastor Daniel’s sermon for Wednesday evening, 3/8/17 on 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 “When we read about resurrection in the Bible, I don’t think we’re reading about a system at all. I think we’re hearing a promise. A promise that though we die, through Christ we will live.”