Church of the Ascension
This is the podcast feed for The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Montgomery, Alabama. Here you will find sermons, studies, morning prayer, special events, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Great Expectations
Our expectations can serve us, and they can also get us into trouble. When they serve us, they motivate us. They give us clarity about what we want, help us set goals, and keep us focused. Expectatio…
Healing on the Sabbath
We are all daughters and sons of Abraham even if we do not resemble one another in health and wholeness or skin color or nationality. Each of us—every single one—is a beloved child of God, worthy of…
In the Lord
I’ve learned so much from your guidance and leadership, and what I’ve learned from you—and from everyone here atAscension—will guide me in the days to come. And I take comfort in knowing the Lord rem…
Faith and Fear
If your heart is hurting, maybe it’s time to reexamine the treasure you are holding—a fool’s gold is fear, and it will never afford you the possibility and potential of a faithful life in Christ. Tha…
The Gift of Giving
When we give of our time and of our treasure to help others we are truly living into God’s call to serve the least of these and I see so much of that here at Ascension. Whether in scouting, in New Be…
What Is Prayer?
The beauty of memorizing the Lord’s Prayer is not that itallows us to recite it faster or participate more often in worship. The beauty is that memorization frees us—to be more open to God’s voice an…
Martha, Martha, Martha!
I believe God is rooted in compassion. And because of that compassion, our starting point is that we are beloved children of God—each and every one of us. That includes Jan and Marcia, Martha and Ma…
What Kind of Neighbor Will I Be?
Will we be the ones who cross to the other side to preserve our comfort or identity? Or will we draw near, take a risk, love? Because to follow Jesus is not just to admire the Good Samaritan—it is …
The Kingdom
God’s grace—and his desire to seek relationship with us—is the ultimate expression of love. When we do the work He has called us to, we must be careful not to become prideful. Instead, we take comfor…
Fruit of the Spirit
As Christians, we are to set our hands to the plow, look forward, and live as new creations, bearing the fruit of the Spirit for the sake of God’s kingdom.
It's All For the Kids!
For three weeks in June, these youth and campers show uswhat the Kingdom of God looks like. They give us a glimpse of heaven on earth. For those three weeks, we witness what it means to have our iden…
Trinity Sunday
That’s the beauty of the Trinity. It’s not a formula to be figured out, but a relationship, a mystery, a presence to be experienced. A God who meets us as Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. A God who mov…
Pentecost Sunday
“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it isbeyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We dis…
Praying Shapes Believing
As beloved children of God, formed by prayer and shaped by love, we are offered a destiny greater than our darkest prisons—a destiny not defined by our chains, but by ourchoices. We need only trust …
Peace in a BANI World
The peace that Christ gives is not the world’s kind of peace—but it is the peace we so deeply desire, whether we are lizard-brained, dog-brained, or owl-brained.
Shepherds Over Superheroes
Superman may save the day, but Jesus saves souls, hearts, and moments. He saves us—and he stays with us. And I believe that’s what we truly need right now: not just a superhero from above, but a shep…
A Good Day Fishing
My fishing skills as a child with my dad and grandfather were much different from those I developed as a young adult out on the Gulf. But those early experiences were necessary building blocks. The s…
Easter Sunday
The joke is on the devil. Easter is a day bursting with joy, hope, and jelly beans. It's eggsactly what God wants for us—a reminder that love wins, that the worst things are never the last things, an…