Sermon Scripture: Luke 24:44-53

Today is the feast of the Ascension of the Lord on the Christian calendar, and it is one of the least observed and most underappreciated feasts the church has. 

Most of us grew up in traditions that moved quickly from Easter to Pentecost, treating the forty days between them as a kind of waiting room. The ascension, if it was mentioned at all, felt like a strange footnote, the moment Jesus left, another loss to grieve. But Jesus has been anticipating the ascension not as a retreat from failing in his work, but as the crowning moment in which it is fully realized. 

So this morning we are not observing a goodbye. We are standing at a coronation, and learning what it means to live in the world that the coronation has made.

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