Casting Your Cares

Today celebrates a combination of events in the history of the church. Our text from Acts 1:6-14 acknowledges the Ascension of the Jesus on the fortieth (40th) day of Resurrection, the text from 1 Peter 4:12-14 and 1 Peter 5:6-11 and Psalm 68 deals with the topic of the sermon, John 17:11 includes some of Jesus’ final commentary to the disciples before his arrest and crucifixion. It is also Heritage Sunday in The United Methodist Church. Celebrated on the Sunday nearest to May 24, members of the Wesleyan tribes remember the event on Aldersgate Street in London when John Wesley’s “heart was strangely warmed.” It was there that Wesley knew in his heart what he had always known in his mind, his intellect, that God’s love and grace was truly for him. It was an event that changed the trajectory of his ministries.