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Ascension of the Lord ›
Luke 24:44-53
Ephesians 1:15-23
Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47
Psalm 93
Seventh Sunday of Easter ›
John 17:6-19
1 John 5:9-13
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
Psalm 1

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  • The Immediate Word

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
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  • CSSPlus

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    John Jamison
    Object: A sheet large enough for your children to stand around it. A dozen or so golf balls, or other small unbreakable balls. If you have a large number of children you could use two sheets to make room, or just ask for volunteers to play the game.

    * * *

    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for our story today? (Let them respond...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    Mark Ellingsen
    Frank Ramirez
    Bonnie Bates
    Bill Thomas
    Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
    Over the Christmas season, I saw a picture of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes with his wife Brittany and their two young children. Like many people, the Mahomes’ took their kids to see Santa Claus. Patrick, Brittany, and Santa are all smiles, however, two-year-old daughter Sterling and one-year-old Bronze looked just like thousands of...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    Frank Ramirez
    Today’s scriptures call upon us to listen carefully — to Jesus, through his words in the New Testament, and to the Spirit helping us to interpret that word and speaking directly in our hearts. And sometimes God is also speaking to us in the created universe. But make sure it is God we are listening to, and not ourselves.

    Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
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  • StoryShare

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    John E. Sumwalt
    …God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his son. (v. 11b)

    Have you ever experienced the presence of God? Have you felt, seen, heard, smelled, tasted or known in some way that the Creator was near?

    My colleague Becky Ardell Downs, pastor of John Knox Presbyterian Church in Houston, tells of a time forty years ago when she was attending the funeral of her uncle...

  • SermonStudio

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    John Jamison
    Have you ever come across a piece of scripture that you really just didn’t know what to do with? Everything you read before it makes sense, and everything after it, but that one passage just sits there staring at you, almost defying you to understand why it is there and what it means.

    We may have that problem with today’s passage from John’s gospel. John is describing the things that...

  • The Village Shepherd

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    Janice B. Scott
    Sandy wasn't very good at prayer. Privately he thought it was probably a waste of time, although when things went really wrong he always found himself praying. He wasn't sure that God ever heard his prayers.

    When he was small, Sandy's mum and dad had taught him to kneel down beside his bed, put his hands together, close his eyes and say a prayer which began, "Gentle...

  • SermonStudio

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    John T. Ball
    One of the blessings of God is the gift of writing, of putting our thoughts and observations on clay tablets or jars, on parchment, or on paper. Scholars are not certain when humans first began to write. Many think it happened in Samaria, the civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates, now modern-day Iraq. It may have happened about 3000 B.C.E. Nor is there a consensus on how writing was first...

  • SermonStudio

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    Richard E. Gribble
    Many years ago one of the most popular shows on weekly television was Mission Impossible. Each episode of the show opened in a similar way. The head of the Impossible Missions Force, or IMF for short, would be found alone in some isolated office, home, or similar space. He would find a large manilla envelope, generally hidden in a desk drawer or possibly in a safe. Inside the envelope he would...

  • SermonStudio

    Seventh Sunday of Easter - B
    B. David Hostetter
    * CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
    How awesome is God most high,
    great sovereign over all the earth!
    Christ has gone up with shouts of acclamation
    to the right hand of the throne of the eternal.
    Let us acclaim our God with shouts of joy,
    praising Monarch and Prince with psalms and fanfares.

    * PRAYER OF CONFESSION
    God invisible in majesty, God incognito...

  • CSSPlus

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    John Jamison
    Object: A piece of clothing that a superhero might wear. I used a simple cape made from a sheet, but you could also use a belt, a ring, or anything else your favorite superhero might wear.

    * * *

    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for our story today? (Let them respond.) Excellent! But first, I have a question for you. Do...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    Mark Ellingsen
    Bonnie Bates
    Frank Ramirez
    Bill Thomas
    Acts 1:1-11
    As I write this, world events have inspired any number of Christians in my area to speculate that these are clear signs of the end. By the time you read this those great events will be history, but don’t worry, stuff is happening as you read this that is causing some to speculate those current events are clear signs of the end.

    There’s no question...

  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    Mark Ellingsen
    The lessons for this Festival of Ascension all testify to the heavenly power and cosmic presence of Christ. 

    Acts 1:1-11
    The First Lesson is a reading from the very beginning of the second half of a two-part history of the church traditionally attributed to Luke, a physician and Gentile associate of Paul (Colossians 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 24)....

  • StoryShare

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    Frank Ramirez
    When he had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. (Acts 1:9)

    Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. (Luke 24:50-51)

    Defying gravity! What a concept? Is there anyone here who...

  • SermonStudio

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    Stan Purdum
    Both Psalms 47 and 93 (the alternative psalm for this day) are enthronement psalms, praise hymns celebrating God's rule over the nations. They were most likely used on festal occasions when Israel again declared that God was its king.

    While Psalm 47 was for Israel's celebration, verses 1-2 call all the nations of earth to recognize God as their monarch as well. Verses 3-4, however,...

  • SermonStudio

    Ascension of the Lord - B
    David H. Webb
    Today is Ascension Sunday.

    Today we commemorate the day when Jesus bid farewell to his followers and friends and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.

    In some ways it's an anxious day. "How will we go on without him?" they surely whispered among themselves. "How can we possibly maintain the strength and perspective -- the motivation to live according...

  • SermonStudio

    Mark J. Molldrem
    Mark -- warlike

    Shirley -- bright meadow

    Jennifer -- fair lady

    Jeffrey -- God's peace

    Jesus -- God saves

    What's in a name? Ever since God gave Adam the privilege of naming all the creatures, humankind has had a fascination with names. Names are important. Parents take great care when they select a name for their baby. They know the name...

  • SermonStudio

    Jerry L. Schmalenberger
    It simply was unthinkable that the appearances of Jesus should grow fewer and fewer after Easter until they finally 'petered out' and melted away. That would have effectively weakened the faith of all people who had seen him. There had to come a day of dividing -- when Jesus of earth became Christ of heaven.

    The Ascension must always remain a mystery to us, for it attempts to put into...

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