All Creation Sings
Worship Service, May 17, 2026

1. Please take a moment to download the sermon notes (https://bit.ly/ER260517) for this week.
2. Prepare the elements of “bread” and “wine” for use as we gather around The Lord’s Table. These can be any items convenient around the home that symbolize these for you.

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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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Music used under CCLI license #1808339, CCLI streaming license #20401862
Performed by Emmaus Road Worship Team

Goodness Of God
CCLI #7203939 | Ben Fielding, Brian Johnson, Ed Cash, Jason Ingram, Jenn Johnson, and Onyeka Onwenu

It Is Well With My Soul
CCLI #7204668 | Horatio Gates Spafford, Nathan Drake, and Philip Paul Bliss

We Will Feast In The House Of Zion
CCLI #7041364 | Sandra McCracken