Fall Big Push Series

This October/November we will host our Fall big push and the weekend services will be based on a series by Northpoint Community Church called Staying in Love. The final title and topics are yet to be decided, but you can check out the original series here: Staying in Love and start submitting your ideas now!

September Series: Go Fish

Fishing stories. We've all heard them. "It was this big." "You should have seen the one that got away." People love to tell stories of their fishing adventures. When it comes to faith, however, most people clam up. Why is it we can't talk about what God has done in our lives as naturally as we can spin fishing tales? We will discuss things like: We Were All Fish Once, Why Fish?, Fish Guts, Fishing Buddies, Muddy Water, and The One That Got Away.

Based on the series by the same name at Northpoint Community Church.

New Series in August - It

August 16 - 30 we will host a 3 part series called "It."

It seems that some churches just have "It". Some people have "it." We all want to have "it."

"It" is elusive and difficult to define. You know "it" when you see it. "It" is from God and "It" is a powerful, life changing force.

Based on Craig Groeschel's book, It, in August we are going to take a look at what "it" is, what contributes to "it" and what it means to get "it" back and guard "it."

August 9 - Celebrate

On August 9 we want to set aside a day to celebrate the volunteers at Cypress and all that they have accomplished in the past year.

What ideas do you have that we could incorporate into our weekend service to honor our volunteers?

August 2 - Build on the Rock

We've spent the last several months looking at statements Jesus made. And that in itself is a good thing... but if we don't allow what we have learned to change how we live our lives then it has not been time well spent.

What do we each, individually, need to do now with the information we have? And what is keeping you from doing it?

Difficult things to swallow

The first week of July we're going to address some of the things that Jesus said that are "difficult to swallow".

What things do you find in the Gospels that fall into that category? What art elements come to mind that raise this question or address it?

Jesus Uncensored to Continue Through July

We've been humbled and amazed at what God has chosen to do in our services over the last several weeks in our series Jesus Uncensored. Highlights have been our service, "Be healed" where we got to share the story of a couple here at Cypress and how they have experienced first hand God's grace and healing power; our service "Remember Me" where we took an entire service to look closely at Christ's statement to remember Him through communion; and services like "Let's go to the other side" and "Follow me". In all of these we were able to implement ideas that were submitted by people who were previously outside of the service planning circle.

It is so awesome to get to see more and more people participate in our service planning by submitting ideas.

This has motivated me to give new attention and focus to Muse.

I hope you will join me as we grow this creative community even larger and dialogue with more ideas and creative input.

In July, we are going to continue in our Jesus Uncensored series and will address the following topics:

July 5 - Difficult statements to swallow
July 12 - Pray this way
July 19 - The Holy Spirit will lead you
July 26 - Who Touched Me?

I'll be posting more specific explanations of these shortly. But for now, what elements in a service help you connect with God?