1. These poets are gifts of God, and it is only good homiletical stewardship to use them for all they are worth.
  2. Too often sermons are like treadmills: Lots of work that takes us nowhere. Better for your sermon to be like an escalator: Move your people onward and upward in faith.
  3. Preachers, just because there is a placeholder carved out right there in the liturgy which says SERMON, that does not give us license to blather.
  4. The Church follows the admonition to “love your neighbor” because it is their identity in Christ Jesus.
  5. If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.

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