A Culture of Encourage

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.comIn this day and time, it would be easy to choose to be miserable.  Years ago, I ran across a list entitled “How to be Perfectly Miserable.”  I don’t know the origin of the list, but I want to share it with...

Church Planting: Worth the Risk?

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.comRoland Allen writes, “My prayer is that we’d not make excuses for our lack of risk-taking, but that we would learn to trust God to raise up disciples.”I post this blog to those pondering the risk of church...

Plant!

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.comJesus says to go and make disciples of all the nations. One way to fulfill Jesus’ command is through establishing local churches, as shown in the New Testament. Peter Wagner, missiologist, former church...

Values and Vision (Part Two)

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.com Last week, I discussed core values and cited this definition from Jim Collins (Author of Built to Last): Core values are a small set of guiding principles; the organism’s essential and enduring tenets;...

Values and Vision

By Rob Campbell, Founding Pastor, www.cypresscreekchurch.comThis week, the JCG bloggers are emphasizing values and vision.  I trust my contribution will help.I like the following definition of core values from Jim Collins (Author of Built to Last):Core values are a...