Crazy love and two movies recommendations

I just finished reading Crazy love by Francis Chan. The book makes you think. If any of you out there have read it, I would love your opinon on it and if it changed the way you live in any way. He does really challenge us to live out our faith. Here are a few quotes:

"The point is that there is another path, an alternative to the individualism, selfishness, and materializm of the American Dream (even the so-called Christian version).

He gives a ton of scripture on what it means to be luke-warm and it makes you take a hard look at your life. His focus is on knowing the Great and Awesome God and loving as He does. Pouring ourselves , our time, money etc out for others.

Then 2 movies added to these thoughts.


I just finished watching Karol: A man who became Pope . This is a gorgeous movie. The photography, the music, and the message is so moving. It is long--we watched it over two days. The acters are polish and they are good (they do have an accent It is graphic as far as the suffering. It is about Pope John Paul II life up until he became pope. It really strikes your heart. It shows the suffering he (and Poland) and the Jews went through and how he reacted to what he was going through and how his testimony of living touched and worked faith in the lives around him. It is worth watching until the very end and is time worth spent and will have an impact on your thinking about what it means to love as Christ loves.

The other one we watched is also available in book form. When I was younger I read the bibography of Gladys Aylward who was a missionary to China. I watched the movie about her life this week--The Inn of the Sixth Happiness staring Ingrid Bergman . It really is an amazing story....actually had me crying in a few places...but there is humor too. When you get done watching it from Netflix then go online to read about her. Almost all of the movie is true. It is an amazing story! I am going to reread the Biography (the small woman).

In all of these things there was love lived out in such a way that it had dramatic impacts on those around them.

The one on the pope can be found here too(it is over 3 hours)



Here BELOW are some scenes from the Inn of the Sixth Happiness-- it has a spoiler in it-SO dont watch it past the 6 minute mark!-



The one on the Pope is worth watching on your television with netflix --beautiful scenes and music too.