Daily Devotionals - Cypress Creek Christian Church

Scripture: Galatians 5:22-23 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. Thought for the Day: Yesterday, we started the Jesus Apprentice classes. This Sunday, I will begin preaching on the theme of Jesus Apprentice: Consistency in word and deed. This is absolutely necessary for anyone seeking to be in the Jesus

From: An Anonymous Church Member Scripture:  1st Corinthians 12:27 All of you together are Christ’s body, and each of you is a part of it. Thought for the Day:  One of my favorite songs that we sing in the contemporary worship service is “If We are the Body”.  The chorus goes like this: But if we are the body Why aren’t His arms reaching? Why aren’t His hands

Scripture: 1st Corinthians 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. Thought for the Day: The following was included in Sunday’s bulletin, but there was a request for a reprint. It is Jarod’s Story (one of our new church members at Cypress Creek Christian Church) “I crawled out from the mangled wreckage reaching for the light and feeling more alive than I’d ever felt

Scripture: Psalm 77:5-6 I consider the days of old, and remember the years of long ago. I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit… Thought for the Day: Tomorrow is an important day for every couch-potato. It is the 64th anniversary of the first live nationwide telecast of a football game.  As a college football fanatic, I feel as if this should

Scripture: Revelation 6:12-13 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and there came a great earthquake; the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. Thought for the Day: I am thankful for science! You probably already know that tonight we

Scripture: Philippians 1:9-11 And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God. Thought for the Day: The French writer, Antoine

Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 1:6-7 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for in spite of persecution you received the word with joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. Thought for the Day: Tomorrow is a great day in history.  It was on this day 34 years ago that Nolan Ryan pitched

Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 5:9-13 For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.  But we appeal to you, brothers and sisters, to respect those who labor among you, and

Scripture: Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Thought for the Day: I have been rereading a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was an amazing pastor in the Congregationalist tradition (today, that would be the United

Scripture: Ephesians 4:31-32 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Thought for the Day: “I’m sorry!” Those words had to come from my mouth on more than one occasion at the Board Meeting Sunday evening. I misstated something, and then