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I used to be a bit obsessed with the NFL. Sundays were a day for church…but also a day to take in 2 or 3 football games. Then one day I got rid of cable (at least in part because it meant I couldn’t watch football). It surprised me how quickly I stopped caring about football. This morning I visited NFL.com to check out yesterday’s games, spent about 2 minutes clicking around, got bored and found something else to do. I find that I kind of miss football—the experience of following teams and players over the course of a season—more than I miss the games themselves.
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Random Act of Culture - This is awesome. “On Saturday, October 30, 2010, the Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 choristers from 28 participating organizations to perform one of the Knight Foundation’s “Random Acts of Culture” at Macy’s in Center City Philadelphia. Accompanied by the Wanamaker Organ - the world’s largest pipe organ - the OCP Chorus and throngs of singers from the community infiltrated the store as shoppers, and burst into a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” at 12 noon, to the delight of surprised shoppers.”
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Comments (8)
I have found the same thing with cable. Once it’s gone you don’t miss things as much as one would think. We don’t watch TV at all. If anything, we throw on a movie for the kids and what not.
Cable is such a bad use of time these days.
Question for you Tim , since you have said previously you are not a “Christian Sabbath” type , holding that the Lord’s day is the new sabbath for Christians , why not in your liberty still enjoy watching football. If no one day is any different , and Christ is our rest , therefore ,we should not think watching football ,going to a movie , attending a hockey game , going to a restaurant etc.. on Sunday is any different . That is unless the Lord’s day still remains a type of rest for believers for holy activities. Just wondering? Hope you will write on your perspective of the Lord’s day in the near future.
I’ve always found the NFL games to be pretty boring, and when I have watched, the audio commentary tends toward Entertainment Tonight-style locker room/business gossip more than discussion of the game. So I rarely watch the NFL, but I do watch some college football, where there’s always the sense that Anything Can Happen. And it does! Triple overtime won by a 2-point conversion with over 60 points per team! Unranked teams beating top 10 teams! I could waste a whole Saturday watching college ball (though I rarely do.)
You wouldn’t be allowed to preach at Macy’s. But the Hallelujah Chorus, that preaches! The kingdom of this worldIs become the kingdom of our Lord, And of His Christ, and of His Christ; And He shall reign for ever and ever. AMEN!
Amen to the Hallelujah chorus in Macy’s. How wonderful proclaiming Christ Lord of Lords… Hallelujah right smack there in the middle of real life. That’s quite the Macy’s, btw.
Tim
You should find a fantasy football league to play in next year. It’s a great way to follow some players through a season and be relevant when other guys are talking football. And it won’t take up your Sundays.
Then one day I got rid of cable (at least in part because it meant I couldn’t watch football). It surprised me how quickly I stopped caring about football.
I sometimes wonder if the internet would be like that if I got rid of it.
The Mentoring Project looks like a good thing but it was founded by Donald Miller. I wonder if it has emergent flavors. But framing the problem from Luther’s “three estate” point of view ought to compel the reformed community, don’t you think?