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Blog Archives: January 2021 — December 2021
COVID-19 Update on Worship Gatherings
December 03, 2021
NEW COVID UPDATE
As you may already know, the Provincial Health Officer has introduced two new restrictions that impact religious gatherings. The new orders include: Masks are now required for religious gatherings. All individuals over the age of 5 are now required to wear a mask for indoor worship gatherings. There is an exception for those eating and drinking as part of a ceremony, so we will continue to partake in communion as normal. Masks will be available in the lobby for those who require one. 50% seating capacity restriction ...
The Tapestry Church Re-Opening Plan
September 10, 2021
Welcome home.
It has certainly been an unusual and unprecedented 16 months. Although this pandemic has greatly affected the manner in which we have done church, it has not stopped us from still being and doing church together. Church is about more than a building or a service; Church is about a people. Throughout this year, we were still able to gather, pray, and worship together through on-line video and streamed services, “zoomed” small groups and cohorts, socially-distanced outdoor gatherings and walks, and for the last month, reduced ...
Love Yourself
March 29, 2021
As part of Lent we’ve invited you to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. In this ...
Love Your Neighbour
March 22, 2021
As part of Lent we’re inviting you to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. This ...
Love God With All Your Strength
March 15, 2021
As part of Lent we’re inviting you to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. This ...
Love God With All Your Mind
March 08, 2021
As part of Lent we’re inviting you to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. This ...
Love God With All Your Soul
March 01, 2021
As part of Lent we’re inviting people to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. This ...
Love God With All Your Heart
February 22, 2021
As part of Lent we’re inviting people to enter into practices centred around “The Jesus Creed”:
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season we are reminded that God’s love transforms us into people who are beloved to love. Each week we emphasize a different part of the Jesus Creed. This ...
Lent 2021: Dust To Love
February 19, 2021
Jesus was once asked, “What is the most important commandment?” And he responded with what has been called “The Jesus Creed” (for a great study on this, check out Scot McKnight’s book The Jesus Creed):
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31)
In this season of Lent we are reminded that God’s love ...
The Ritual of Morning Coffee
January 25, 2021
“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.” – Dorothy Day
If somebody asked me to sum up my daily spiritual practice, that above quote by the great social activist and writer Dorothy Day would work.
In this reflection I want to walk you through my morning rhythm, and invite you to adapt anything that matches your own rhythms. I am a coffee drinker, but of course you can substitute coffee with tea or something else.
I begin my mornings like this:
I wake up. I go to the bathroom. I drink a cup of ...
How We Almost Burned Down the Sanctuary
January 18, 2021
A confession: we almost burned down the sanctuary on December 26, 2020.
Okay, maybe the sanctuary wasn’t completely at risk, but there was a small accidental fire caused by a certain someone (let’s call him…Jim Toosma).
As we were lighting the Advent candles and got to the Christ candle our lighter ran out of butane. And we were in a hurry. It was one minute before our Tap Nights livestream service started. That’s a combustible combo trying to light something on fire in desperation and hurry.
After failed attempts of using another ...
The Surprise of New Wine
January 08, 2021
There is this wonderful moment at the end of Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. It’s a fascinating book written from the first-person perspective of Jesus. The book ends at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11). Jesus’ brothers don’t believe that he changed the water into wine but he disciples believe he did. And an argument erupts:
“Now, that I do not believe,” declared my brother James. “Cleopas, did you witness this yourself, what they’re saying, that all the wine being ...
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