August 3, 2025

Thank you for joining us for Cowboy Church here at the Chip. It is our

honor to serve you this morning. You are among friends: relax and enjoy

our beautiful western setting. We trust that the music, the message, and

old-fashioned cowboy hospitality will encourage you today.

ecclesia song

We are called to faith, gathered in love

Sent with hope to change the world

We are called to faith, gathered in love

ecclesia, ecclesia, Church at the Chip!

   Called to Faith, Gathered in Love

   Sent with Hope – ecclesia!

Psalm 114

    1    When Israel went out from Egypt,
              the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
    2    Judah became his sanctuary,
              Israel his dominion.

    3    The sea looked and fled;
              Jordan turned back.
    4    The mountains skipped like rams,
              the hills like lambs.

    5    What ails you, O sea, that you flee?
              O Jordan, that you turn back?
    6    O mountains, that you skip like rams?
              O hills, like lambs?

    7    Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
              at the presence of the God of Jacob,
    8    who turns the rock into a pool of water,
              the flint into a spring of water.

The Seed, the Soil and the Kingdom

The Kingdom of Jesus: A Study in Luke’s Gospel (#32)

Luke 8:1-15 

As Jesus “spreads the word" about his kingdom, his message is met with varied responses. Some (the villagers in Nazareth) reject his teaching outright. Others (Simon the Pharisee) are interested but unconvinced. But there are many (a tax collector, a centurion, a “woman of the city” and the Twelve) whose lives are forever changed. To illustrate this, Jesus tells a story to challenge his hearers (then and now) to consider their own response to his kingdom message.