Tyndale Chapel Podcast

As many will know, yesterday, Monday June 21, was National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. In light of this, we are honoured to offer an important reflection for today’s Community Chapel “Summer Series” podcast. Mr. Andrew Thunder is our guest speaker. The title of his reflection is “A Christian Response to Reconciliation”. Andrew, an Oji-Cree Canadian and proud member of Sachigo Lake First Nati...

We continue our weekly Community Chapel “Summer Series” podcast message with a reflection on Psalm 121 by Dr. Beth Green, Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Tyndale. Her message is entitled “Psalm 121: A Song for Pilgrims”. Along with her duties at Tyndale, Beth presents regularly at academic conferences and is an author including the recent Innovating Christian Education Research. She is also...

Tyndale alumna Morgan Clark continues our summer series reflecting on her favorite Psalms, Psalm 42 through 43. This message is characterized by vulnerability and soul-searching, but shows us the promise of hope when we shift our focus to praise rather than our circumstance. Morgan is a recent graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and serves as Youth Pastor at the Gate Alliance Church in...

The Rev. Dr. Joan DeVries, Assistant Professor of Worship Arts at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, will be sharing her reflections on a Psalm that inspires her with a message entitled “Psalm 1: The Pursuit of Happiness”. Joan is a long-time friend of Tyndale having served in a couple of positions in Student Development including Dean of Students (Seminary) before her move to BC. She is a...

Dr. Andrew Witt, Assistant Professor of Old Testament (Undergraduate), will be sharing his reflections on one of his favourite Psalms with a message entitled “Psalms 32: The Happiness of Sins Confessed”. In his short time at Tyndale, Andy has become a respected colleague and much appreciated professor amongst his students. He grew up in Pittsburgh, eventually making his way up to Toronto for docto...

This week Dr. Rebecca Idestrom will be sharing her reflections on Psalm 16 with a message entitled “Psalm 16: I have set the LORD always before me.” Many in our community will know Rebecca for her mentoring influence among students, her winsome teaching ability, and her deep scholarship. At Tyndale since 2001, she currently serves as Professor of Old Testament at the Seminary.

This week Pastor Carl Santos will be sharing his reflections on Psalm 2 with a message entitled “God Inevitable”. Carl is senior pastor at Redeemer Church in Niagara Falls and a current D.Min. student at Tyndale. He and his wife Sara are parents of six wonderful and very busy kids. Carl has a passion to know and proclaim the Gospel in a clear, deep, and relevant way, in hopes that if Christ be lif...

Elizabeth Reynolds, Tyndale's Coordinator of Student Mentoring & Spiritual Development, starts off the summer refelctions with Psalms 23. Join us as we journey through the trail of this Psalm, and develop an understanding of how Jesus our Shepherd leads us and provides for our needs where we feel we are lacking.

Please join us online as we celebrate our graduating students from the Seminary, the B.Ed. program, and Undergraduate Studies. The 2021 Tyndale University Convocation Chapel celebration will include wonderful music from the Tyndale Singers and Band, two graduating student reflections, one from Avery Coulter (Undergraduate Studies) and another from Amy James (Seminary and Graduate Studies), and a m...

Dean George Sweetman speaks to our community about the Liturgy for Stations of the Cross. Community Chapel this week will spend time reflecting on Christ's movement toward the Cross. This week is Holy Week and through song, reflection, Scripture, and prayer, we invite the community into a prayful posture of gratitude.

Lizzie Reynolds continues her series of reflections on the Psalms. This week, Lizzie will lead us through Psalm 141. If you long for a reflective and contemplative time of immersion in Word and prayer, please join us every two weeks for “Abide”.

This week we are honoured to have Tyndale University President Marjory Kerr, Ph. D., speak to our community. Dr. Kerr’s message is entitled, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has been good to me” and is based on Psalm 13:6.

Pastor and Tyndale University alumna Abby Davidson (BA ’09, MTS ’13) will join us this week as we conclude our series on spiritual disciplines that our speakers have leaned into and practiced with their circles of influence during the pandemic. This week’s message is called “Honouring God with our Bodies.”  Abby writes, “God created our bodies in His image and declared them good. God's Spirit dwel...

Lizzie Reynolds continues her series of reflections on the Psalms. This week, Lizzie will lead us through Psalm 131. If you long for a reflective and contemplative time of immersion in Word and prayer, please join us every two weeks for “Abide”.

Tyndale alumnus (BA ’12) and pastor Nicholas Dookheran joins us this week to continue our series on holy practices and habits that have encouraged others during the pandemic. Nick writes, “Digital spaces are often places where we go to ‘disconnect’ from the busyness or pain of life. The people we interact with in those digital spaces are not just usernames but real people with stories, complicated...

Over the next three weeks, while the Church continues to walk its Lenten journey, we have invited three local pastors to reflect on practices or “holy habits” that have sustained them through the pandemic. To begin, Kaarina Hsieh, Lead Pastor of Parkway Forest Community Church in Toronto, will share a message related to holy lament. Kaarina says, “As Christ followers, we are a people of hope, who...

This week, Lizzie Reynolds will lead us through Psalm 90. If you long for a reflective and contemplative time of immersion in Word and prayer, please join us every two weeks for “Abide”.

Our friend, Pastor Chris Chase, lead pastor at The Meeting House, Newmarket, will join us for the concluding message celebrating Black History Month at Tyndale. Chris writes, “Jesus' prayer in John 17:20-26 is one filled with a desire for unity among believers with an eye on those yet to know the love of God. Our unity is a witness to the world and is worth protecting. But we can't be unified unle...

This morning, Wilma Nevers, the Director of Tyndale’s Family Life Centre, will speak on “Perspectives and Peace”. She writes, “…we all have individual stories and perspectives of our stories (My Story / Your Story). We also have collective stories (Our Story) and we have God’s story of us (HIS story) and in focusing on HIS story, His perspectives of us, we will find peace.” Wilma is a graduate of...

This week, Lizzie Reynolds will lead us through Psalm 65. If you long for a reflective and contemplative time of immersion in Word and prayer, please join us every two weeks for “Abide”.

We are so grateful to have Dr. Vivette Henry, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Undergraduate Studies) join us. Dr. Henry's message is entitled “When you can’t find God, there is hope, because He knows where you are.” She invites us “to reflect on our lives within the current COVID-19 season and on the painful reality of racism, in particular anti-Black racism.” She reminds us that “so many in ou...

Lizzie Reynolds continues a new series of reflections on the Psalms. This week, Lizzie will lead us through Psalm 38.

Dr. Beth Green, Tyndale University’s Provost and Chief Academic Officer, shares with us this week. Her message, “Numbers 27: Leading with Confidence Even When you are Anxious”, is a wise word in this season that has continued far longer than most anticipated. Beth earned her DPhil from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Senior Fellow at Cardus, a faith-based t...

We are pleased to have Dr. Ashoor Yousif, Assistant Professor Church History and Director of the MTS Modular Program (Seminary) speak to us this week on St. Ephram. The title of Ashoor’s message is “A Fulfilled Dream and Prayer”. The life of St. Ephram the Syrian, who was a man of admirable words and deeds, is an inspiration to us as servants of God, regardless of our diverse aspirations and chall...

Lizzie Reynolds begins a new series of reflections on the Psalms. This week, Lizzie is considering Psalm 3.