Ascension Day service: May 9 at 7 p.m.

Ascension Day is forty days after Easter. After Jesus’ rises again, he spends forty days with the disciples, and then “while he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.” (Luke 24).

Wait, what?

Imagine the roller coaster ride the disciples went through, from their disappointment at the death of Jesus, to their elation at his resurrection – only to see him ascend and leave.

Ascension Day helps us live in that moment. Jesus really did leave. In a very important and powerful sense, he is absent.