Ascend Backpack Trip

Looking to head to the hills and do some backpacking? Gonna do your best Bear Grylls impersonation? Register for our backpack trip to the Trinity Alps here:

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The trip is July 23-26 and the cost is $45... hope to see you there!

Kingdom Stories Kicks-Off Tonight

Tonight Ascend kicks off its summer series "Kingdom Stories" at the home of Drew Bartholow. Please join us at 2450 Summit Drive in Santa Rosa‎ at 7:30pm tonight for Ascend. Better yet, here is a map:


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Church History for the Here and Now

This summer I will be teaching a seminar on Sunday nights at Santa Rosa Bible Church on church history at and its implications for here and now. To help facilitate distributing helpful documents and resources, as well as to be a central place on the web for the documents and audio of the seminar we launched a new website Vintage Saints. Check it out and join us starting June 14 at 5:30pm.

Re:Live Your Suffering

Last night was a great discussion about suffering, God's hand in our sufferings, and the attitudes we should carry when we suffer. During the course of the evening I mentioned a few resources that are helpful for thinking through this issue. Here they are:

• Trusting God, by Jerry Bridges
• Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor
• Mark Talbot's two messages from the Exalting Christ Ministries Conference (part 1, part 2).

Finally you can download last nights audio here: Re:Live Your Suffering.

Re:Live Our Words

Last night was a great challenge to me as we looked at our words and the weight they carry. Here is the audio from our evening together. Let's be praying for changed hearts so that we will say words that build up and encourage.

Re:Live Our Words

Christ and Jack Daniel's

Last night at Ascend we covered the topic of the Christian and alcohol. Download the message from last night here.

Christ and Entertainment

Here is the audio from last night's Ascend meeting. Christ and Our Entertainment.