August 30, 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 16

1    Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2    I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
                I have no good apart from you.”

3    As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
                in whom is all my delight.

4    The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;
                their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
                or take their names on my lips.

5    The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
                you hold my lot.
6    The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
                indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

7    I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
                in the night also my heart instructs me.
8    I have set the Lord always before me;
                because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

9    Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;
                my flesh also dwells secure.
10   For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
                or let your holy one see corruption.

11   You make known to me the path of life;
                in your presence there is fullness of joy;
                at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

God and Caesar    

The Kingdom of Jesus: A Study in Luke’s Gospel (#74)

Luke 20:19-24   

Pastor Steve Gilbertson

Following Jesus’ unseemly ride into Jerusalem and his outrageous disruption of temple worship, the religious leaders seek to silence him as soon as possible. They failed to trap Jesus with a question about religious authority, so they sent spies with an incendiary question about Caesar and God.