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The Shout of a King: The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Continuing Work Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christians overlook that the ascension was as much an act of God’s power as the resurrection. We need to take time to meditate on the work of Christ, in order to appreciate the full consequences of the great things he has done for us. Before the ascension, it was the Lord Jesus Christ who proclaimed the message of salvation. After the ascension, Jesus’ representatives were to do the same in...

and the so-called Athanasian Creed (381–428 AD)—‘so-called’ because it was written later than Athanasius—give an important place to the Ascension. In the sixteenth century John Calvin wrote in his commentary on Acts (on Acts 1:9), ‘The Ascension of Christ … is one of the chief points of our faith.’ In Easter 1996, The Daily Telegraph commissioned a Gallup survey on the Christian beliefs of the British population, following an identical survey three years before. The proportion who knew that Good
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