What we want to talk about is not, I am extremely sure, a theme that dominated your breakfast conversation this morning. It is not, I am equally confident, a theme that came up in any church conversation around here in the last little while. It is not even, I am still confident, something that you have ever thought much about at all. And I am sure it is not something you have heard homiletically addressed more than once, if at all. I am talking about the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. If by chance it rings a theological bell within your memory, chances are that bell was rung by the creedal line that runs: "... and the third day he rose again according to the scriptures: And ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father...." 

Before you zone off, thinking that t…