Tony Campolo - Don't Miss the Point

I got this link of an interview with Tony Campolo today on a yahoo group that I frequent. It was great. One of my favorite sermons ever was the time my pastor impersonated Tony doing one of the sermon's that he is most famous for called "It's Friday, but Sunday's Coming".
In the discussion that followed the sharing of this link, my friend Jenny said she loves it when Tony shares this with groups:

"there are [some number] of children starving in this world today, and most of you don't give a sh*t ... and what's even worse, most of you are more concerned right now about the fact that I just said sh*t than that I just said there are children starving."

Sometimes we just miss the whole point.

The Power of Love

Interesting quote on the power of love –

For this is one of the miracles of love; it gives – to both, but perhaps especially to the woman – a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

- C.S. Lewis in A Grief Observed

This book makes you see grief turned inside out. Mr. Lewis so exposes his frustrations, fears and feelings in such a way you wonder if the book will conclude with his abandonment of faith. If you have ever loved and lost, you will perhaps be provoked in your memory to a time that you care not to relive, and yet he so articulates the experiences, that it helps to heal what time cannot. A couple of friends and I are starting a book discussion group on yahoo, and this is the first book that we are reading together. If you are interested, please contact me at julientexas at sbcglobal dot net.

"The point about reading C.S. Lewis is that he makes you sure, whatever you believe, that religion accepted or rejected means something extremely serious, demanding the entire energy of the mind." -Harper's Magazine