Cypress Church

Transformation happens as we focus on Jesus and His way of life...and His path for us to be transformed is to choose to be meek, to choose as Psalm 37:3-11 says is to Trust in Jesus, Delight in Jesus, Commit to Jesus, Endure with Jesus, and Depend on Jesus...the promise in this choice is the enjoyment of abundant peace.

Jesus’ teaching can move us from the Tragedy of giving in to our hurts, hang-ups, and bad habits to the Triumph of life lived Jesus’ way. This happens as we Know Jesus Knows…when get that Jesus understands us and has wisdom to help. It also happens when Believe Jesus Has The Answers…that choice to hold Jesus as that highest influence in life. It further happens when we Release Control to Jesus…stop blaming and admitting we can’t control what happened or happens to us, but we can control our response to Jesus’ teaching and give over the controls to Him.

God’s Story is a story of Revelation, Separation, Redemption, and Restoration…it is a story of adventure and mission with the focus on Jesus as Matthew 28:18-20 speaks; Jesus has All Authority, Jesus’ Call to GO to All Nations, where we Communicate All Jesus’ Teaching, and Know Jesus is Always Present.

We were designed to fit into God’s story, where His story is our story, because of His story we are restored to the people He created us to be… In Matthew 4:23-25 three truth come out of the restoring nature of God’s story through Jesus...Restoring Teaching that we are to Listen to and Live, Restorative Proclamations of the Gospel that we are to Accept and Announce, Restoration Healing that we are to Believe and Bring others to Jesus.

We were designed to fit into God’s story, where we are part of His story, His story is our story, yet because of our separation from God’s story we need to willfully choose to be part of God’s story. So Jesus Initiates an Invitation and we are to respond. As well, Jesus Creates and Coaches us to be part of God’s story and we are surrender to His leading and get on with Jesus’ mission.

God’s story is a victorious story seen in Jesus’ victory over the temptations in the desert; Victory in the Wilderness, Victory in Want, Victory in The Ways, Victory in Worship, Victory in the Win.

God’s story is a humble story seen in the baptism of Jesus Matthew 3:13-17 as this action of our Lord reveals that God’s story is A Humble Story of Constant Surrender, Continual Support, Celebrated Suffering...and we would do well to embrace surrender, yield to support, and build endurance through suffering.

God’s story is an incredible story, an amazing story, but not a ‘safe’ story...it’s a radical story about Jesus that is told in both the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible. This radical story comes together through the strange and radical person of John the Baptist. In Matthew 3:1-12 as we hear John’s story we learn of God’s story; A Radical Story that is Evoking Radical Results, and Producing Radical Results.