July 19, 2026

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 10:1, 10-18

      1    Why, O Lord, do you stand far away?
              Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

     10   The helpless are crushed, sink down,
              and fall by his might.
    11   He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,
              he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

     12   Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
              forget not the afflicted.
    13   Why does the wicked renounce God
              and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?
    14   But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,
              that you may take it into your hands;
            to you the helpless commits himself;
              you have been the helper of the fatherless.
    15   Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
              call his wickedness to account till you find none.

     16   The Lord is king forever and ever;
              the nations perish from his land.
    17   O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted;
              you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
    18   to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
              so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Losing is Finding; Believing is Seeing 

The Kingdom of Jesus: A Study in Luke’s Gospel (#69)

Luke 18:31-43  

Pastor Steve Gilbertson

On Sunday, Jesus will enter Jerusalem on the back of a donkey and, for the first time, gladly receive the coronation cries of the crowd. He knows his crown will not be one of gold, but rather, one of thorns. He tries once more to warn his disciples, but they can’t see it. As if to illustrate the point that believing is seeing, Jesus performs his last miracle: He gives sight to a blind man in response to his faith.