Local U2 Church Event

THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO U2
Sunday, November 9
5:00pm – 7:00pm

Though the four members of U2 comprise a mainstream, secular rock group, they are arguably the most influential Christian musicians in the world.

Join us as we explore the music and theology of one of the world’s biggest bands.  Themes of social justice, spiritual longing, redemption and grace are a big part of that theology and will be a focus of this program.

We will also celebrate the U2charist–Holy Communion using the songs of U2. Bring a friend to this evening of great music, theology, and fellowship!

Arapaho United Methodist Church
NE Corner of Arapaho & Coit
Richardson, TX
972-231-1005
arapaho-umc.org

Flier

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Drill, Baby, Drill

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Synchronized Presidential Debating

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High School Musical 3 Bible Study

Link

That one dude looks like that guy from Amercian Idol season one, who reminded me of Sideshow Mel.

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Hell House Divide – One church is for and the other is against

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Pronto Vaticano – Working the Vatican switchboard

It appears when one calls the Vatican you don’t get the “Press 1 for . . .” option.  Instead you get an actual human.

It’s a pretty interesting article, these pieces stood out:

• “People ask us: ‘So you really work on Christmas? You work on Easter?’ ” she said. “Of course we do. The church is a mystic body. I feel that we are the heart of the church. And the heart never stops.”
• At least once a day, someone insists on speaking, urgently and directly, with Pope Benedict XVI himself. The sisters respond with tact and prudence. They never say an outright “No.”
• The sisters work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. They recognize and tolerate certain regulars. One frequent caller identifies himself as Saint John the Baptist. He’s harmless, though he gets touchy if they don’t address him as “Saint John.”

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Bag of Randomness

• Instead of making election day a holiday so people can get out to vote, maybe it should be moved to a Saturday.
• I drink a lot of tea and that has given me stained teeth, so I bought a pack of Listerine Whitening Quick Dissolving Strip.  They work much better and faster than expected.  I have to admit when I opened the first strip pack, I couldn’t even find the strip because they are small, clear, and stick to the side of the packet – I thought I got gypped.  What I like about the strips is that as they dissolve they get inbetween the my teeth where I have a lot of staining.
• When I was a teenager (early 90’s) the church I attended had a “Slave Auction.”  That’s what it was called and marketed as, seriously.  It was an opportunity for the youth to raise funds for summer activities.  It worked like this, a youth stood on the alter and people bid for his or her services to do chores and errands.  When my father found out I participated in such a thing he was irate, and was further disappointed that a church would be so racially insensitive, even though they had the best intentions.  The following year the event still occurred but the event name was changed to “Youth Auction.”  In case you were wondering how racially diverse the church was, from my memory all the adults where white, there was a few Hispanic children and one Black adopted kid.  Oh, and me.  Please know the people of the church were very loving, but in this case they didn’t fully think things through.
• My home country is experiencing vote flipping.  Link
• In high school I once dressed up as Liza Minelli to performed a lip-sync routine to New York New York complete with a background I made of the New York skyline and a big apple.  Somewhere, somewhere a tape of this exists that is not in my possession.
• One thing that I appreciate now that I didn’t truly appreciate as a teen was how my parents attended every one of my high school events, sports and non-sports.  The one event my father couldn’t attend was my high school graduation as he had a heart attack just three days prior.  He later watched it on tape, and even took a picture of me on TV when I accepted an award.  In retrospect, I wish I was sensitive enough to have stayed at home and watch the video with him.
• Obama crowd members spell his name like a YMCA song.  Flickr
• Most of the time when someone leaves a comment I take time to reply back to them in email.  I figure if you took the time to leave a comment I can at least take the time to acknowledge it.
• The last time I word corduroy I was in elementary school.  If I wore them today I would feel like a kid.
• I also had to wear Wrangler Rustler jeans as a kid, the ones that were real dark colored.  I can’t stand those jeans, and I vow never to wear them again.
• There are two words I try never to use, hate and evil.
• You can now have your plant use Twitter.  Link
• The McDonald’s Double Cheese Burger is about to have one less slice of cheese.  Link
• Speaking of McDonald’s, here’s their Hungary menu. Link
• A company tries to take advantage of the Jennifer Hudson tragedy.  Link
• A blog about stairs.  Link
• It’s a small world:  I got a nice little email from my neighbor yesterday.  He’s in the Air National Guard and is currently in Germany.  Names have been changed to protect the innocent . . .
  I’m 4,200 miles from home tonight in Geilenkirchen Germany (near the Netherlands boarder).  I’ll be here until next Friday, working with NATO AWACS airplanes.  I had dinner tonight with [namewithheld, old college friend].  She had good things to say about you.  Thought you’d like to know.  How small this world is!

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