Winter Fest

This weekend has been so enlightening.  Our church, via our well wired pastor, Dick Staub, puts on Winter Fest in February.  Dick manages to bring in the most amazing speakers and this year we were treated to the opportunity to hear Earl Palmer, a theologian who gave messages over Friday, Saturday and Sunday about several amazing people of the faith.  I had never heard of Karl Barth.  I had heard of G.K. Chesterton but that's about all and I had heard of Dorothy Sayers but not much more.  Earl also spoke about C.S. Lewis, of whom I am much more familiar.  Karl Barth wrote the Father Brown Mystery series and Dorothy Sayers wrote the Lord Peter Whimsey Detective series.  All these writers were way ahead of their time in an era which did not tolerate very well an outspoken nature especially regarding their faith.  I really learned a lot and hope to read some of their work in the future.  Earl kept us all intrigued with his vast knowledge and his sense of humor and one of my favorite quotes from him this weekend is that Christians need to use common sense when sharing their faith and common sense means you know when to quit praying when the food is getting cold!  I could relate to this man.