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Public Worship at 9:00 every Sunday at the Buffalo Chip
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Church at the Chip Worship Service
January 31, 2021
Welcome to Online Worship at Church at the Chip
If it’s your first visit, a special “Howdy” to you! You are among friends: relax and enjoy our casual cowboy setting. Grab a Bible, light a candle, and prepare your personal Lord’s Supper elements. We trust today’s service will encourage you in your relationship with God.
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God bless you,
The Church at the Chip family
Welcome Table
I'm gonna sit at the welcome table
I'm gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days
I'm gonna sit at the welcome table
Sit at the welcome table one of these days, one of these days
I'm gonna feast on milk and honey
I'm gonna feast on milk and honey one of these days
I'm gonna feast on milk and honey
Gonna feast on milk and honey one of these days
Chorus
All God's children gonna sit together
All God's children gonna sit together one of these days
All God's children gonna sit together
All of God's children gonna sit together one of these days, one of these days
Chorus
Psalm 47
1 Clap your hands, all peoples!
Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
2 For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared,
a great king over all the earth.
3 He subdued peoples under us,
and nations under our feet.
4 He chose our heritage for us,
the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
5 God has gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 For God is the King of all the earth;
sing praises with a psalm!
8 God reigns over the nations;
God sits on his holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples gather
as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
he is highly exalted!
As it is in Heaven
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be thy name
Come and let your glory
Come and let your glory fall
Our Father, who art in heaven
The rocks cry out your fame
Come and let your glory
Come and let your glory fall
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song
I will sing, sing a new song to the Lord
Let your kingdom come
Let your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Every eye proclaim
The mercy of your name
On earth as it is in heaven
God give us new every morning
Mercy his daily bread
In the name of Jesus
In the name of Jesus we pray
Father we pray
Chorus
For the kingdom is yours
And the power is yours
And the glory forever Amen
(Repeat)
Let your kingdom come
Let your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Every eye proclaim
The mercy of your name
On earth as it is in heaven
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness
O God my father
There is no shadow of turning with thee
Thou changest not
Thy compassions they fail not
As thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be
Great is thy faithfulness
Great is thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed thy hand hath provided
Great is thy faithfulness
Lord unto me
Summer and winter
And springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars
In their courses above
Join with all nature
In manifold witness
To thy great faithfulness
Mercy and love
Chorus
Pardon for sin
And a peace that endureth
Thy own dear presence to cheer
And to guide
Strength for today
And bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside
Hard Times
Is that rain falling from the sky keeping you from singin'
Is that tear falling from your eye 'cause the wind is stingin'
Don't you fret now, child, don't you worry
The rain's to help you grow
So don't try to hurry the storm along
The hard times make you strong
Don't you know a seed could never grow if there were never showers
Though the rain might bring a little pain
Just look at all the flowers
Chorus
I know how long a day can seem
When storm clouds hide his face
And if the rain dissolves your dream
Just remember his amazing grace!
Don't you know, the sun is always there, even when the rains fall
Don't you know, the Son will always care, when he hears your voice call
Chorus (2x)
Parables of the Kingdom (2): Wheat & Weeds; Bread & Seeds
Steve Gilbertson
Matthew 13:24-35
Jesus continues to tell us stories about the kingdom of heaven. In today's installment,
we explore three of them: the parable of wheat and weeds, of mustard seed in the
field, and of leaven in the bread. What are we to learn about the kingdom in these
stories? We'll talk about that today.
Matthew 13:24-35
24 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to
a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came
and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore
grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and
said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'
28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' So the servants said to him, 'Then do you want us
to go and gather them?' 29 But he said, 'No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat
along with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the
reapers, "Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat
into my barn."'"
31 He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard
seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has
grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come
and make nests in its branches."
33 He told them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid
in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened."
34 All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a
parable. 35 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:
"I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
36 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, "Explain
to us the parable of the weeds of the field." 37 He answered, "The one who sows the good seed is
the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds
are the sons of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end
of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so
will it be at the end of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of
his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, 42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that
place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in
the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
“Welcome Table”
Words and Music by Southern Gospel Revival
Public Domain
"As it is in Heaven”
Words and music by Ed Cash, Matt Maher
© 2005 spiritandsong.com
Used by Permission. CCLI License #11389917
“Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Words and Music by Thomas Chisolm, W.M. Runyan
Public Domain
“Hard Times”
Words and Music by Jamie Owens
© 1981 Bud John Songs, Inc.
Used by Permission. CCLI License #11389917
