I’ve been meaning to listen to this, but I finally found a copy of The World’s report on The White Stripes’ song Seven Nation Army taking over as an anthem song for Rome’s Futbal team, the Roma’s.
It’s a great story. Fun to hear 30,000 fans sing along to the catchy hook and bass line.
The more I hear from this rock duo from Detroit, the more I like them. Rock on. Rock on.
UPDATE: The link to The World’s story is gone 🙁
Wanted to pass this invitation on to everyone in the Dallas area…
You love God but you just can’t do Sunday morning style church?
You’re really not into singing songs all the time or you don’t believe that singing songs is the only way we can worship God?
You would like to be part of a church where you are accountable to each other and are responsible for helping each other grow?
You’re tired of professional Christianity and you just want to be church like it was with Jesus and his followers back in his human days?
You believe Church is more fluid than a building or tradition.
Sound interesting?
Some like to call it ‘church’, others call it ‘fellowship’, while many believe it to be ‘community’…….We believe it to be essential and feel that many congregations have lost the “familial” sense of the body of Christ!
In our search for a place to belong and fellowship together we have begun to gather in homes to seek the heart of the father together!
After months of prayer and dialoging we have finally begun to gather as a community in Ellis County.
Our invitation to you is always open and our desire is to be a place for people to engage and explore God in fresh, exciting, and maybe even new ways!
We gather on Saturday nights for a couple of hours, so if you are intersted in knowing more details just reply to this bulletin!
Here are some more interesting stories/articles on myspace.com:
From DMN:
Behind the scenes of this week’s student protests, a new age of grassroots politics dawned.
The marches Monday in Dallas – patched together in the span of 15 hours through Web pages, cellphone messages and e-mails – show the role technology will play in the future of political organizing.
“There’s something new going on in this networking technology, and it’s really fantastic,” said Danah Boyd, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert in online social connections.
From Church Marketing Sucks:
MySpace or any other social networking site may be just another tool for churches to use to interact with members and visitors. As with any tool there can be drawbacks and necessary safety precautions, but it still has potential to help churches give power to the people and reach out in a cheap and easy web 2.0 way.
Some of you have been asking about our softball season.
It’s going well… we’re 4-0.
I forgot to give an update on the second game of the season. I was 2-2 for the night, bringing my season stats to 3-5.
I missed the third game and went 2-3 last night, giving me a season record of 5 for 8.
Not bad, I’ve been playing DH since stinking up in right field the first game of the year. I don’t mind that at all. In the past I’ve played 1st base, but Rolly took that spot and I don’t mind chillin on the bench till I’m up to bat.
So anyways, there’s an update. From what I understand, we’re in sole pocession of first place in our division. The city’s website has not been updated yet, but I believe we moved into first place last week and secured that again this week.
Our next game is next Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The United Church of Christ has released another commercial. The group has already had one ad rejected from the networks.
This second one gets your attention.
From churchmarketingsucks.com
This time around a traditional American family looks horrified at the non-traditional church goers–single mother, gay couple, Hispanic or Middle-Eastern–and each one is literally ejected. The tagline is “God doesn’t reject people, neither do we.”
Who would you like to reject from your church after seeing the commercial?
The ad is part of a $1.5 million advertising campaign (which has been rejected again by the big four TV networks)
“We’ve forgotten that the No. 1 way people come to faith is by one person inviting another person,” said Ron Buford, the director for the campaign at the United Church of Christ in Cleveland.
Click here to see another video by the church
A group calling themselves, March to Redeem the Soul of America marched through Waxahachie today. They’re calling for a boycott of Exxon-Mobile, saying they started the war in Iraq. They started in Irving on Saturday and are marching south to Crawford for a rally at the Peace House.