The Ascent Podcast

Friendship: it’s complicated | Ways We Ruin Friendships

Friendships are complicated and we can sometimes make them messier with three ways we tend to cut friendships off: busyness, insecurity, and loneliness.

Wild | Insanely Passionate

Do you ever find it hard to believe that grand passionate gestures are real? Our culture loves creating music, movies, and stories around big gestures, yet when it comes to our own life and our relationship with God, it can be hard to accept the greatest passionate love gesture of all: that God sent His Son to earth in order to be closer to us. When it comes to the passionate love of God, however, it isn't just this huge gesture that is important, but all the little daily moments where God is actively loving us. 

 

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Wild | Victorious Warrior

The third week of our series, Wild, explores God as a victorious warrior. While often we want to take control of the battles we face, we need to accept that not all battles are ours to fight and possibly God wants His battle back.

 

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Wild | Roaring Advocate

God is not silent. In fact, all throughout Scripture we find that He is loud, active, and advocates on our behalf. His advocacy is so loud it is like a lion's roar. By exploring three passages in Scripture today we will find that God roars for justice, He roars for our desires, and He roars for our freedom.

 

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God is Wild

God's character cannot be limited, yet often we sanitize God to become a product of our culture's imagination. As a community, however, we want to rediscover who God really is and look at the attributes that can often confuse us. This week we're starting off by exploring how God is wild and what it means to fear Him.

 

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Roaring 20s | Death to "Busy"

We often think that what we say are the most important things in our lives is an accurate representation of what we spend our time on, but in reality, what we spend our time on is a way more accurate representation of what we think is important. When the Jewish people in Haggai were having trouble prioritizing, God tells them to “think it over”. The message is the same for us today: Think over what is most important to you and how you are spending your time. In this message, we look at three really practical ways of killing “busy” and prioritizing what is actually important.

 

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Roaring 20s | Rated R for Romance

Relationships are a huge part of our lives in our 20s, but at times we can put so much pressure on ourselves and our relationships that they end up breaking. There may not be a set formula for relationships, however, there are three questions that we can ask ourselves as we are making decisions that can help us navigate singleness, dating, and marriage.

Roaring 20s | Money Makes the World Go Around

As young adults, talking about money can make us uncomfortable, stressed, and anxious, yet it is something that impacts everything that we do throughout our lives. In this message, we explore why God cares about money, how to dream for our finances, and how to create a healthy attitude for our money now.

 

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Roaring 20s | It Is What It Is

Each decade of our lives is unique, but our 20s and early 30s is especially unique as we navigate big life decisions and continue to develop who we will become. With those opportunities can also be disappointments as our pictures and dreams of what our lives would become meet reality. So sometimes all we can do is follow in Abraham's footsteps and recognize that it is what it is, but possibly it's not what it seems.

Find Your People | Brittany Petkau

We are all called to run the race, keeping our eyes on the finish line. However, we were never meant to run alone. Join us as we explore what it looks like to run the race together and be challenged about being intentional with our community in this season.