Send a text There’s an old saying: “He who has an argument is always at the mercy of the one who has had an experience.” And that’s true. When Christ has changed your life, someone else’s argument doesn’t carry much weight. It’s perfectly valid to appeal to your experience—up to a point. But there’s also a weakness in relying on experience alone. Experienc ... Show More
Today
Life in the Spirit. (Galatians 5: 13-26)
Send a textI once spoke with a woman who had spent years in a church a full of rules and regulations. When she finally moved to a church that simply taught Scripture without adding man‑made religious rules, she told me she felt something surprising: FEAR!Those rules, she said, ha ... Show More
34m 13s
Mar 6
Freedom in Christ. (Galatians 5: 1-12)
Send a text For four chapters, he has been laying down argument after argument, Scripture after Scripture, illustration after illustration, pleading with them not to return to the bondage of the law.... But now the question he asks becomes: If we’re not going back to the law, the ... Show More
25m 39s
Mar 5
What Do You Choose - Slavery or Freedom. (Galatians 4: 21–31)
Send a textIt seems that in the Apostle Paul’s day, some Jews, particularly a contingent based out of Jerusalem, followed him from newly established church to church and told the people there that in order to be truly acceptable to God, you also had to keep the Jewish religious r ... Show More
32m 27s
May 2023
Question & Answer 27
Question: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? Answer: Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuin ... Show More
40s
Mar 2025
Day 63: Israel's Rebellion (2025)
In our reading of Numbers 14 today, Fr. Mike highlights how the rebellion of the Israelites which was marked by distrust and fear, will have consequences for their children. We also read today Deuteronomy 12, and Psalm 95.
For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/b ... Show More
22m 30s