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Awakening
Adjective
awakening
1. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.
Noun
Singular
awakening
Plural
awakenings
awakening (plural awakenings)
1. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
2. (religion) A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
It’s time. The world longs for more.
Church, this is your call to pray, fast and seek GOD for a new general awakening in this present generation. The Kingdom that is to come is the Kingdom the world needs now. Let us pray.
Could it be today?
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
-Paul
Henry Blackaby, (the Author of Experiencing GOD), told me years ago when I spoke with him at a conference in North Carolina,
“Read about the greats, do what they did right and learn from what they did wrong. The world has too many mediocre preachers, don’t be just another one of them. The world has yet to see what one man, completely sold out to the cause of Christ can do in this world. Be that man.”
Wesley is quoted as saying, “GOD does nothing except in response to men’s prayers.”
Let us pray. Let it groan inside you and burn inwardly again.
Don’t you remember the last time you had a meeting with GOD. Remember that experience, remember that emotion, remember that passion. Draw on it. Desire HIM again. Meet with HIM.
Come on church, WAKE UP!
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the Thread 2.5.07 Volume 3.2
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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Remembering Dr. King
I HAD to take a moment to bow the head today, so to speak as we remember Dr. King this week. I read the daily thought from Charity Focus, which I am including here below. I also included my comment that I added to their site. Friends, few people have ever affected me in my search and quest for the radically balanced heart I have found in the Tapestry. Dr. King is one of the ones on that list with Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Just an aside; I got to hear Archbishop Tutu speak at American University, in 2004), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. These often humble revolutionaries were not quiet and I believe that their legacy deserves remembrance. May we never forget from whence we came!
the Charity Focus’ Post:
January 16, 2007
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
–Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK’s Influence On You:
Almost 40 years after his death, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his vision continue to provide hope and inspiration to the world. Marian Wright Edelman — activist and winner of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism — offers reflections on her mentor’s life and message based on their friendship. In this article, Edelman lends insight into King’s definition of service, and encourages readers to celebrate the yearly American holiday as “a day on, not a day off,” using his birthday to come together for community service and action. [more]
Be The Change:
As a part of a special report on Martin Luther King Jr., CNN asked readers what impact his words and actions had on him. Read select responses and add your own reflection. [more]
My Comment:
Legacy is an interesting thing. It’s the act of leaving something behind when you yourself, must go on. It’s the knowledge that you, yourself may never get the benefit of the finished work, yet still continuing the work for those that come after you. It’s the desire to see your descendents, both genetic and not exceed your present status. It’s the dream that drives the visionary to continue when the mountain seems too high, the journey seems too long and the way too treacherous. It’s the award that no living man ever receives.
Legacy is the climax, crowning touch, finale, finish, height, payoff, peak, pinnacle, summit, and zenith of the often un-thanked yet fondly remembered. Legacy gives no pats on the back to the still living, yet is the greatest Eulogy of the recently past.
No artist has been fully appreciated in their own time.
May we leave a legacy. May we see the art in our existence though other men only see rubbish.
Just some thoughts as we remember Dr. King.
Thank you Dr. King for DREAMING. May we dream a bit today as we think of you. May we go and see over the mountains in our own lives. Thank you!
dhedrick
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And as we continue to forge along this journey, I want to remind us to dream, imagine and have fun this year as we cross the mountains and enter the other side of our vision; “a community of faith lived daily in the Presence of GOD and connected openly with others.” I eagerly await the times that we go up to worship the Lord with joyful shouts and dancing.
Take a moment right now to listen to one of Dr. King’s messages. (CLICK HERE)
Oh GOD, may we dream and anticipate! Bring on the expectation!
AMEN!
Have a great week Tapestry!
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New Year, New Resources
In an effort to encourage and inspire as we march on into our New Year, I am going to start offering a number of articles on some things that will brings light and life to your new year! So, here are a few sites and resources that I HIGHLY recommend. Some of them are hot and running, some of them are up and coming, however, you might want to bookmark this post in order to come back over and over again!
1. For encouraging newsletters in your inbox daily, try the Charity Focus Newsletter: www.dailygood.org. Here is the RSS Feed in case you are interested.
(CLICK HERE) to learn more about RSS Feeds and what they can do for you. And (CLICK HERE) here for a more advanced look.
2. For one of my all time favorite daily devotions, (CLICK HERE) to go and sign up for Oswald Chambers’, “My Utmost for His Highest.” Or, you can go to the Heartlight website and sign up for “My Utmost” and many more different daily emails! VERY ENCOURAGING!
3. For very encouraging pictures that you could use as backgrounds, there are two places that I call my favorites! First, Freefoto.com is beautiful and then, Crossmap.com. That’s one way to awake your soul daily, look at great pictures!
4. For a great Christian search engine, try: Crossmap.org or even our growing search engine: search.tapestrychurch.net.
5. For a great daily reading plan that is becoming more interactive daily, go to: Ancientword.com. It’s a work in progress. And for a great Bible search try, Biblegateway.com.
6. There’s a new site, directory and search engine that we are working on that will definitely be something you want to keep tabs on. It will have stories, encouragements and articles that can only help you to believe that GOD can move today just as He did in the past. That is: ComeRevive.Us. Now, it’s a work in progress, however, trust that this year, it will be growing and expanding with all the research we have done over the last 13 years!
7. For worship music, check the Vineyard site out. There are always new dowloads where you can try new music out! Also, try out: ShareSong.org for amazing free new original music!
And whatever you do, keep your eyes open as we are prayerfully progressing toward our new venture. We are working to start an online worship radio station. You will definitely be hearing more about this later. This year, we hope to bring new life in new ways to the internet. So, have fun, have joy, there’s hope!
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