MAY 21, 2020
THE ASCENSION of our LORD
LITURGY: The Order of Vespers, pg 41 in TLH
PSALM: Psalm 47
READINGS: Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53
HYMNS
221 "Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices"
840 from Lutheran Service Book "Christ, High-Ascended, Now in Glory Seated"
212 "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing" (in place of the Canticle)
216 "On Christ's Ascension I Now Build"
Sermon: "Witnesses to the End of the Earth" Acts 1:8
I. Jesus' ascension was important for His apostolic witness to the end of the earth.
II. As recipients of the apostolic witness, we are now secondary witnesses in this end of the earth.