May 17, 2026 - Ascension Sunday

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 1

1    Blessed is the man
                who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
      nor stands in the way of sinners,
                nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2    but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
                and on his law he meditates day and night.

3    He is like a tree
                planted by streams of water
      that yields its fruit in its season,
                and its leaf does not wither.
      In all that he does, he prospers.
4    The wicked are not so,
                but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

5    Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
                nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6    for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
                but the way of the wicked will perish.

The Ascension of King Jesus 

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Steve Gilbertson

Can you imagine winter without Christmas, or spring without Easter? Of course not. And yet many churches and Christians slide right into summer without observing the final phase of Jesus’ ministry: his Ascension to the right hand of the Father. What is the Ascension all about, and why should we care about it today? We’ll talk about that this morning. 

In Matthew 28, 

Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Mark 16 says, 

“So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.”

In Acts 7, we read that 

“[Stephen], full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”

In Ephesians 1, 

Paul prayed that we would know the power that God “worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places….”

In Hebrews 1, we read that 

“After making purification for sins, [Jesus] sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high….

And finally, in Hebrew 12, we are challenged to 

“look Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.