The Ascent Podcast

We’re wrapping up our Growing Pains series with a special Q&A session, diving into your questions on navigating adulthood! Listen in as we tackle real-life challenges around decision-making, time management, boundaries, finances, and more.

Boundaries are essential for creating order and maintaining healthy relationships. In this message, we’ll explore what boundaries are, how to set them, and how God's design for boundaries helps us protect our well-being, foster respect, and live with greater freedom. By following His wisdom, we can establish balance and peace in our lives.

The young adult years can feel like a paradox: having both the most money you've ever had and it not ever feeling like enough. With bills to pay, school to fund, and countless opportunities to explore, how do you know where to spend your money? This week, we'll discuss how to manage your finances in a way that honours God and sets you up for success.

School, work, friends, family, church, romance—each demands so much from us! It can feel overwhelming to balance these expectations and decide where to invest our time, yet Jesus gives us some time management guidelines that will engage both our hearts and our minds.

Which school should I attend? Where should I work? What career path should I pursue? Should I buy or rent? Who should I ask out? How many kids should I have? The young adult years come with so many decisions, it can make our heads spin trying to figure out all the answers. Yet through biblical truths, we can learn to make these big decisions with confidence and discern where God is leading us.

We are all being formed by something. Whether our habits, other people, experiences, our upbringing, or culture, we are being influenced. The question is, are we being influenced more by Jesus or the world? In this series, we’ll explore what it looks like follow the way of Jesus and learn practical tools for practicing them in our daily lives.

Whether we realize it or not, all of us are being formed — by our habits, relationships, the stories we believe, and our environment. In this session we explore the six primary forces shaping individuals: habits, relationships, stories, environment, time, and experience.

The last two weeks we've looked at receiving love from the Lord and giving love back to the Lord. This week we look at the importance of loving people from the place of being filled by the Father's love. 

We continue in the second week of "Heart, Soul, and Mind". Last week we talked about receiving the love of God before we can distribute it, this week we're talking about how to respond to His overwhelming love once we've received it! Why would Jesus say this is our greatest command? What is the character of the One we're called to love? And how exactly do we love Him?

Welcome to the third week of our series "Chasing Freedom"! This week Lydia Brunelle leads us in how to gain freedom in the Lord in the midst of difficult and trying circumstances. 

Everyone desires freedom, but how do we attain it? In this message we'll talk about how waiting with the Lord in patience leads to obedience, which ultimately leads us into freedom. We also look at the Israelites in Exodus 16 and Exodus 32, were they patient? How did their patience (or lack of) influence their relationship with God? 

The first scene in Exodus is of the Israelites crying to God for freedom. Enslaved and ensnared in the oppressive culture of Egypt they find themselves utterly helpless, yearning for God to rescue them. The story of the Israelites is really the story of humanity, how we are all in bondage to our sin. Yet, as the Israelites cry out, so do we, and God, in His infinite mercy, answers our cries for fr...

Doug and Carolin Sadler join us for week three of our series through the book of Proverbs! Doug and Carolin equip us on what it looks like to receive promptings and affirmation from the Lord - and then the fruit that comes out of obedience. 

Do you believe you can hear the voice of God? Has your head submitted to your heart? Is it about the gifts of God, or relationship with God Himself? These are all questions Cheryl McMillan poses as she joins us for week two of our newest series through the book of Proverbs.

We all experience anxiety on some level ranging from paralyzing for some, intermittent for others, or triggered by certain events, thoughts, or emotions for others. And we've come to treat anxiety as noise that needs to be quieted, but what we don't always realize is that it's actually an alarm trying to tell us that something else in our life isn't right. In the first week of this series, we look...

In the last week of our series on worship, we look at the moment when Jesus left the throne room in heaven and came to earth as a baby, and the way that the angels responded by declaring "Glory to God in the Highest!"

This week as we continue our series, In the Words of Angels, we dive into Revelation 5:12 and explore the praises of the angels exclaiming "Worthy is the Lamb"

In the first week of our series on worship, Pastor Brittany walks us through Isaiah 6 and explores how the angels worship and how Isaiah responds.

We often wonder why it feels so hard to encounter God in a deep and profound way. We wish there was just a formula, a set of steps to help us experience God in powerful ways. Luckily, Jesus actually gives us this formula! John 15:5 says, “Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit…” Let’s explore this idea together and we hope you will feel encouraged knowing that Jesus love...

“In Jesus’ Name” Most of us have used it at some point during a prayer, but often it’s out of habit or simply used as a tagline, and we don’t fully understand what it means to pray in Jesus’ name. Jesus’ name isn’t a magic word and there is no power in the phrase itself, but recognizes the authority and character of Jesus, and the relationship he invites us into. 

Spiritual apathy is when we experience a prolonged dampening of motivation, effort, and emotion, as well as resistance to the things that would bring flourishing in our faith. But if we can identify the cause of our apathy, perhaps we can wake ourselves up and build a vibrant relationship with God.

In the first week of our series, Losing Faith…And Finding It, we sat down to talk with Dr. Jonathan McLatchie, founder of TalkAboutDoubts.com . In our discussion, Dr. McLatchie explained the difference between questions and objections, high-stake objections vs. low-stake objections, the heart and mind issues of deconstruction, and how to address your doubts and others in a way that helps you grow...

This week we sat down with Dunstan and Jessica Gomes to hear stories about their relationship, learn lessons from their marriage, and explore what God means when Scripture talks about "becoming one flesh" and "submitting to one another".

Whether you grew up in the church or not, you've probably been taught many lessons about purity that have damaged a bit of what you have thought about physical intimacy and relationships. In this week's message, we'll be looking at 4 lies that purity culture taught us and what the bible actually says about it.