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Last time U2 was in town, I looked at a few of their songs on Sunday morning.  The podcast can be found at http://www.thetapestry.ca/tappodcasts/bono_and_u2_sermon_vertigo_apr_24_2005

I haven't listened to their new album "No Line on the Horizon" too often, but will do so in prep for their concert in Vancouver on Oct 28th.  I will also take a look at their new album @ the Tap on Sunday, Oct 25th.

And I need your help.  So, if you've listened to their new stuff... what do you think?  You like it?  Any God illusions in the lyrics?  Any scripture? 

Go to the tap Kids page or our Youtube page to check out the new 2009 VBS video. Thanks to Dan for putting it together!

“Fellowship, camaraderie, togetherness, communion have always been at the center of the very bring of God, and always will be. It is critical to see this. And it is just as critical that we see that the shared life of Father, Son and Spirit is not one of sorrow and loneliness and emptiness. It is not about isolation or self-centeredness. It is all about fellowship. And fellowship means that God is not a lonely, sad and depressed being. As Father, Son and Spirit, living in fellowship, God is essentially and eternally very happy.

I am only one,
but I am one.
I can't do everything,
but I can do something.
What I can do,
i ought to do.
And what I ought to do,
by the grace of God
I will do.

Edward Everett Hale 

So it has been a long time since my last post. But I think I'm going to start it going again by posting a nifty text cloud of 150 of the most frequent words used on our blog. The bigger the word the more frequent the usage. The black text cloud is Pastor Al's blog, and the white text cloud are all blog posts. Al... I think you need to use love more :). 

 What do you think of the text clouds? Are they reflective of The Tapestry as a community? Goat, Teresa, Millionaire make me smile. They're kind of like inside jokes aren't they?

On Oscar Sunday (Feb. 22nd), we're going to take a look at Oscar nominated movie - Slumdog Millionaire.   If you haven't seen it yet, go see it!  

So what was the movie about?

What scene in the movie "spoke" to you?

Blog it.

Trailer can be found @ http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/slumdogmillionaire/  

The fall sermon series has been entitled "rEVOLution" and about how we can best live out this love revolution of Jesus.  Echoing Mother Teresa, "we can do not great things, only small things with great love.  It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing it."

We've talked about some of these small things, and a few sundays ago, I alluded to the small things we can do differently this year to celebrate Christmas. Following up on that, this Christmas, we are encouraging everyone at the Tap to buy a goat for someone in the Third World.

John 13:34

 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.