Good Morning! (Welcome Message)
Welcome again to the second official version of the Thread Online. I hope that you have enjoyed our new way of doing our newsletter. If you are not receiving the newsletter and you would like to, please email us at: dustinhedrick(at)tapestrychurch.org. Of course, please change the “(at)” to the @ sign. We do this to keep from being spammed.
Also, let us know if there are other types of content or columns that you would like to see here. I am contemplating adding a column for the creative. And before I do, we need you to send your poetry, song lyrics or whatever to be added here. The Thread has a few thousand readers now and this is your opportunity to have your creative works published and shared worldwide.
Tapestry, I would also like to say that I truly love you guys. This year has been an amazing year already with all the growth, the change, the new faces, the new worship, the new ministries and the maturing ministries that have been here a while. We are now nearing our third year as a church and we have made great advances. I simply want to say again thank you for calling me your pastor and for calling the Tapestry Home! And if you are a newer person, just entering the doors or contemplating visiting, come on in. This is my invitation! Dinner will be on me when you do!
Thanks for staying with us and we pray that the Lord continues to richly bless you and yours!
Love you guys!
pd
Inspire! (Quote of the Week)
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity when it comes, because it’s usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
-Thomas Edison
Encourage! (The Story or Thought of the Week)
Teen Grocer Revives Community:
Not just bagging cans and produce, 17-year-old Nick Graham owns the only grocery store in the small town of Truman, Minn. The high school senior bought and reopened the store a month ago, making him “something of a hometown hero.” Locals — many far older than Graham — credit him with restoring life to the town’s struggling Main Street and saving them a 24-mile roundtrip to another store. “I didn’t want to see downtown Truman deteriorate,” says Graham. “I can’t count the number of people who helped stock shelves, price items and clean this place up.” Just about everyone in town is now a regular. “It gives the whole community a sense of confidence,” a customer says. [more]
Word! (Verse of the Day)
Motivate! (News You Can Use)
Title| Super Bowl Coaches Value Family, Faith
Author| Eddie Pells
Credit| AP National Writer
Date| Mon, Feb. 05 2007 07:20 AM ET
If you are going to read an article on the Super Bowl, it should be this one! Here are the opening lines from the Christian Post. They share the AP story about the coaches from the Colts team focusing on Values such as family and faith! Here are the opening lines of this top story!
“Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears made it a historic meeting because they are the first black head coaches to oppose each other in the NFL title game.
They also made it notable by proving it can be done without shouting, intimidating, bullying or humiliating players to get there.
‘I really wanted to show people that you can win all kinds of ways,’ Dungy said in the leadup to Sunday’s game. ‘It’s a good thing to see guys have success when it maybe goes against the grain, against the culture.’
They are soft-spoken, churchgoing, kindhearted men who coach players that, more or less, have followed their lead in the buildup to America’s biggest sporting event…”
(Click here) to read the rest of the article from the AP on the Christian Post website!
Enjoy! (Events)
We are in the process of locating a new place to meet and will be leaving Twinbrook School VERY soon. This Sunday there will be more information! EXCITING! Finally, a church feel for our services!
GSF this Saturday! Here is the Schedule of events: (Click Here for the Schedule). If you need a ride or more information on that day, please call Su or call 240-888-8992.
Ignite! (Heroes of the Faith – Link)
Author| Unknown
Posted on| Unknown
Category| Biographies
Source| mountzion.org
Originating Post| Word Document on Google (Found Here)
The Last Days of Edward Payson, D.D.
“Praying Payson of Portland”
EDWARD PAYSON, D.D. WAS BORN July 25, 1783 in Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father was a distinguished clergyman. For the last twenty years of his life, Edward was the pastor of The Second Church in Portland, Maine, where he died October 22, 1827, at the age of 44. His valuable and instructive Memoir has been read with interest by thousands.
During much of the last year of his life he suffered the most severe bodily anguish. His right arm and left side lost all power of motion, and the flesh became insensible to external applications, while internally he experienced a sensation of burning which he compared to a stream of liquid fire poured through his bones. He continued his public ministrations a part of each Sabbath for some months after this attack; and when prostrated on his dying bed, was enabled, through the marvelous displays of Divine grace, to plead, with unwonted eloquence, the cause of his Redeemer. On September 19 he dictated the following letter to his sister.
My Dear Sister,
Were I to adopt the figurative language of Bunyan, I might date this letter from the land of Beulah, of which I have been for some weeks a happy inhabitant. The celestial city is full in my view. Its glories beam upon me, its breezes fan me, its odors are wafted to me, its sounds strike upon my ears, and its spirit is breathed into my heart. Nothing separates me from it but the river of death, which now appears but as an insignificant rill that may be crossed at a single step, whenever God shall give permission. The Sun of Righteousness has been gradually drawing nearer and nearer, appearing larger and brighter as He approached, and now He fills the whole hemisphere; pouring forth a flood of glory in which I seem to float like an insect in the beams of the sun; exulting, yet almost trembling, while I gaze on this excessive brightness, and wondering, with unutterable wonder, why God should deign thus to shine upon a sinful worm. A single heart and a single tongue seem altogether inadequate to my wants: I want a whole heart for every separate emotion, and a whole tongue to express that emotion.
But why do I speak thus of myself and my feelings? Why not speak only of our God and Redeemer? It is because I know not what to say. When I would speak of them, my words are all swallowed up. I can only tell you what effects their presence produces, and even of these I can tell you but very little. Oh, my sister, my sister! Could you but know what awaits the Christian; could you only, know so much as I know, you could not refrain from rejoicing, and even leaping for joy. Labors, trials, troubles would be nothing: you would rejoice in afflictions, and glory in tribulations; and, like Paul and Silas, sing God’s praises in the darkest night, and in the deepest dungeon. You have known a little of my trials and conflicts, and know that they have been neither few nor small; and I hope this glorious termination of them will serve to strengthen your faith, and elevate your hope.
And now, my dear, DEAR sister, farewell. Hold on your Chris¬¬tian course but a few days longer, and you will meet, in heaven,
Your happy and affectionate brother,
Edward Payson
September 21, he exclaimed, “Oh, what a blessed thing it is to lose one’s will! Since I have lost my will, I have found happiness. There can be no such thing as disappointment to me, for I have no desires but that God’s will may be accomplished.”
“It sounds so flat, when people tell me that it is just for God to afflict me, as if justice did not require infinitely more.”
He was asked, “Do you feel yourself recon¬ciled?”—“Oh! That is too cold. I rejoice, I triumph! And this happiness will endure as long as God Himself, for it consists in admiring and adoring Him.”
“I can find no words to express my happiness. I seem to be swimming in a river of pleasure, which is carrying me on to the great fountain.”
Read the rest of this article here!
Listen! (Music for the week)
Song Title| God of All Glory
Album| Full Attention [CD]
Author| Jeremy Riddle
Chords| (CLICK HERE)
Listen| (CLICK HERE)
God of All Glory is in that constant worshipful vein of Jeremy Riddle. It’s a funny thing, but I have encouraged everyone to get Jeremy’s stuff ever since I heard More than a Friend. And here I am again encouraging you to check out another one of his songs. Well do it! It seems that this songwriter has the ability to do more than write nice songs, these songs truly connect with the Spirit of God and you can sense it when you turn them on. My encouragement is to take a day off from your normal duties and turn this cd on, sit still and let it all wash over you.
Click through and try the song out! Do it NOW!
So, if I were you, I would head over to Vineyard Music and listen, read and buy!
(CLICK HERE)
Learn! (Book of the Week)
I placed power evangelism back up as the book of the week because I will be speaking on it Sunday, finishing our 4 week study on outreach and evangelism.
View! (Picture of the Week)
And Just to close, don’t forget, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade or better yet, lemon meringue pie! WOOT!
And as always, my prayer is that the Lord blesses and keeps you, that He shines His face upon you and that He draws you closer to others as He leads you nearer to His Presence.
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