Messages spoken at the Colorado Summer Camps Farthest Out
Colorado Summer CFO:
190 messages from 30 gatherings, 1956 to 1999.
A prayer group first met on February 15, 1941, and in July 1942 about 80 people gathered at Geneva Glen, west of Denver, for a retreat led by Glenn Clark and Glenn Harding. From that retreat grew the first full week of camp, July 18 to 25, 1943, also at Geneva Glen.
Campers gathered at the YMCA camp at Estes Park from 1945 to 1969 and at Covenant Heights, also in Estes Park, from 1970, and the name Colorado Summer came in 1987. The recordings run from 1956 to 1999 and include Estelle Carver, Homer Martin, Ross Creighton, Norman Elliott and Norman Renshaw, among many others.
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How I Got Into CFO
One With God
The Rusty Hinges of the Inner Door
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Live As Though You Were Real
The Fire on the Hill
Love Going Out
The Day We Coined Kai Hu
That Which Cannot Be Shaken
What More Does an Old Woman Need?
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Called to the Fellowship of Followership
Willard Ireland traces Jesus's three calls, "come unto me," "come, follow me," and "come, abide with me," in a message given at the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO. He then uses the pledge a young princess made on her twenty-first birthday, to "venture beyond the safeties of the past," to describe what following Jesus costs.
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Loose In the World
He Who Stands Beside Me
Watering Our Prayers
The Mustard Seed In Plastic
The Present Tense of I Am
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The Man Who Called Me a Little Witch
A man who claimed the gift of discernment told Ruth Robison he had decided that morning she was "nothing but a little witch," and by the end of their talk he took it back. At the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO she warns that a spiritual gift is given to find God at work in people rather than evil, and that a new insight is to be obeyed at once.
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Do You Think You Are Able?
Half a Mile From Heaven
What Does Jesus Want of Me?
Poor In Ego and Rich In Mission
Bandaged Together In the Ward
Illusions of Religion
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I Remember
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The Doctor Who Fell On His Knees
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What In Your Life Takes Jesus To Explain It?
One man knew the psalm and the other knew the shepherd, and Cliff Richmond presses the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO to say which describes them. He recalls Glenn Clark sitting undisturbed through clacking latecomers at the founding camp, a boy drowned at Koronis whose memorial went to Japan as goats, and a man converted because his wife became easier to live with.
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Go and Buy a Saddle For Yourself
Have You Never Heard an Ass Talk?
He Sold His Mother's Glasses
Stay On the Track
The Giant Words of a Pygmy
The Latch Was Never Locked
The Pelican and the Vulture
The Scarlet Glass Over the Scarlet Rose
The Silence of God
The Well I Was Never To Visit Alone
They Did Not Lift Their Branches
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A Million Miles and Still Praying
Two Teaspoonfuls Too Many
A Promise To Sister Annie Swan
Erasing Yourself
One Hundred Christians In One Accord
The Law of the Magnet
The Stranger Who Followed Her Forty Years
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At the Colorado Summer CFO in 1973, Estelle Carver traces Jesus's first recorded sayings. They run from "I must be about my Father's business" to his telling Nathanael, in effect, "I am Jacob's ladder," the link between heaven and earth. She asks campers to follow him every step of his earthly journey.
The Rudder Is Kinder Than the Rocks
Recipe for a Perfect Life
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Reg Goff retells the prodigal son for the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO as the story of a father who runs, and reads the robe, the ring and the shoes as deliberate signs that the restoration is complete.
A Bell Is No Bell Until You Ring It
Speaking to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, Reg Goff insists that God is love rather than merely has love, and unpacks his own hard-won definition of it as "the desire to bless with everything you have."
Reg Goff says praying for an unbelieving husband or child accomplishes little on its own, and that the real work is becoming the person through whom they are convinced someone loves them. From the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974.
Before She Was Born, Jesus Asked Her to Come to Earth
Agnes Sanford describes a vision in which Jesus asked her, before she was born, whether she was willing to come to earth for a hard work of healing. She then retells Gethsemane as Christ absorbing the grief of all humanity, in a talk to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974.
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My Biggest Patient Is the San Andreas Fault
Agnes Sanford prays here for places rather than for people, daily over the San Andreas Fault, which she calls her biggest patient, and for six days at Notre Dame while war ran in the Near East. She ends by asking her hearers each to take one college quietly into their prayers. The talk comes from the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO.
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She Commanded the Wind to Turn Around
At the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, Agnes Sanford tells of standing alone on a shore near a wildfire. She spoke aloud to the wind, asking it to reverse into a fine, damp, misty, rainy wind by morning. She then teaches five short affirmations for training the mind to draw daily on that same authority.
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She Filled Empty Chairs With Prayer
Melita was crippled from birth and healed as a child, and she grew up praying over a circle of empty chairs, with someone in need imagined in each. Agnes Sanford tells her story at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, then teaches campers to ask God, rather than their own preference, whom to choose for the prayer of faith.
The Roofer Who Brought a Bonsai Tree
A roofer brought Agnes Sanford a small bonsai garden to thank her for prayer that healed his kidney stone. She then describes for the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974 what she says arrived when she first received the Holy Spirit: burning, joy and peace.
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Dear Mr. Creator
Job and the Death of Ego
Sweeping the House Before the Prayer
Born, Not Organized
Discipleship
The Knapsack At Calvary
Eighteen Hundred Times Better Than God
Greater Love
Working For the Guy Who Made You
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Willing Never To Feel Again
I Am Well In Jesus
Someone Worse Than I Am
He Ran Off Half-Baked
Problem-Centered Marriages Made Whole in Jesus
Emily's Six Pages of Questions
Waiting For You To Ask For the Keys
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He Did Not Love My Accent
Leaning On His Elbow
Folding Chairs At the Funeral
Stargazing In a Blue Dressing Gown
Imaged by God
Ten Thousand Million Computers
Mercy Without Wax
The Boy Who Follows the Plow
A Picture Window Into Heaven
The Minister's Caged Canaries
Drive a Stake Against Doubt
Keep It In a Low Key
The White Sock Full of Quarters
The Enemies Narrowed To Four
Half Enough Faith
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It's a Life of Faith
The Man Who Confessed the Hotel Fire
Wallow In His Love, The Lord Told Me
In a message at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1977, Evelyn Carter Spencer tells campers that the Lord showed her a vision of her own life as a road, worn with ruts down the middle from years of resisting him. He instructed her to "wallow in his love" as she prepared to leave Pittsburgh and marry in California.
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Evelyn Carter Spencer contrasts the written word with the "rhema," God's spoken word for the moment. She recalls waiting for hers before she prayed at the bedside of a comatose Jewish boy. Moses, she notes, tended sheep for forty years after mistaking a need for a call. The talk comes from the Colorado Summer CFO in 1978.
Evelyn Carter Spencer continues a morning session at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1978 by unpacking Colossians 3. She tells campers to let the peace of Christ settle every question like an umpire. God's habit of exposing hidden faults, she says, is like a poker player reading your hold card, the one card no one else can see. She adds a kitchen picture of a slow-simmering stew whose scum must be skimmed before more can be added, likening it to how God works on a life over time.
Grace Is Bread With Butter and Jelly
Evelyn Carter Spencer is reunited at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1978 with her longtime friend Norman Renshaw and his wife Elsie. She compares an unearned gift to a boy who asks his mother for bread and gets it back with butter and jelly on it, and she calls that extra "grace." She preaches from Ephesians on becoming so completely one thing, in mind, will, and emotion, that what a Christian believes finally matches what shows up in daily life.
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Hopping Mad In the Temple
Move Over, Norman
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Agape At the Charcoal Fire
Healing: a Lay Ministry
Prayer Groups
The Seven Diagrams of the Soul
The Seven R's of Prayer
What Do We Mean By Spiritual Healing?
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The Camp For the Stout
Three Calls To Africa
The Note That Said "Please Pray For Me"
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A Convent In Peru
Dante and the Hidden Door
For Whom Christ Died
I Love You, But
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A Bucket Full of Tears
Be Filled With Light In the Morning - a Prayer
Being His Chalice
Bloodline Through a Gentile Girl
Church In a Cairo Dining Room
God the Father Dances for You
My Own Bethlehem Judah
The Little Tin Chapel
The Voice In the Bathtub
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Seek Those Things Which Are Above
God Is Bigger Than Your Need
The Great I Am
Instant Cash in the Cairo Bazaar
Vulnerable to God
Love and Forgiveness
The Common Ground of God's Family
Stress
The Comforter Who Abides Forever
A Dozen Paper Eggs In the Bible
Growing in the Knowledge of Him
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In this talk to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1984, Larry Eddings presents forgiveness as the very nature of God, retelling a picture of Jesus missing his own coronation to go searching for Judas. He shows unforgiveness blocking healing until it is spoken away.
Buddha Did Not Die For You
You Cannot Dye a Synthetic
The Irish Brogue Learned in the Womb
A New Heart for Mack
Not the Afflicter but the Comforter
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Sour Minds and Sweet Songs
God Is Like a Battery
Stirring the Fish Bowl
Wrapped In Words From Your Own Mouth
Give It To Him a Teaspoonful At a Time
The Past Redeemed, the Present Restored, the Future Assured
The Proud Roman Eagle Bows
Half Born At Kadesh Barnea
The Only Plan That Guarantees Perfect Emotional and Mental Health
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No Accidents: Understanding God's Timing
The Doctor Who Hugged Trees
The Woodcutter and the Mountain God
The Football Stadium of Spiritual Warfare
What Original Commentary Can You Give?
A Customs Officer Asks for a Bible
A Minister of Miracles
A Quaker Child Asks for a Bit of Silence
Turn Her Loose and Let Her Walk
The Baby and the Hot Stove
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What the Eagle Gives Up Before It Flies
The Skeptic Who Got the Interpretation
The Needlepoint That Only Reads Jesus From Far Away
The Man With the Long Gray Beard
The Secret of the Peanut
The Inner Child Within You
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Leaving Your Ur of the Chaldees
The Feather Mattress and the Kingdom
An Encourager of the Flock
Tie a Little Bell On Him
Build It On the Ashes
The Rampant Horse of the Mind
Just Love Me
Mephibosheth At the King's Table
Bonanza of Peace
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The Cold Beans Misunderstanding
Twenty years of cold beans went by before Tom Jacobs learned that his wife had been asking for something other than what he heard, and floor mats as an anniversary present bought him two weeks of silence. Loving people according to their needs rather than our own instincts is the work, he tells the 1990 Colorado Summer CFO, and forgiveness is poured like concrete into set forms.
Tom Jacobs left a Father's Day shirt in a motel in Greeley, and spent the drive home having his own will broken behind a tractor pulling a wide disc. Psalm 137 is about spiritual dryness, he tells the 1990 Colorado Summer CFO, and the point of the exile is not to hang up the harp while you are in it.
Know His Ways So We Can Know His Glory
Men As Trees Walking
Writing As If Paul Were Reading
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The Gift of Five Days
The Battle Over My Bed
Your Identity: What and Who You Are
The Dark House On My Birthday
The Lady In the Refrigerator
Ripples In the Universe
This Was Only Practice
Your Personal Blessing, Ordination and Empowerment
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Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness
The Shepherd Speaks Sheep
Tools to Live By
Ambassadors for All Christ Is
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No Right To Sing the Blues
The Saxophone That Was Stolen
Get Me a Musician
The "I Believe" Shelf
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Inside the Enemy Playbook
Motivation, Not Discipline
Taking Your Daily Spiritual Vitamins
On the last morning of a Colorado Summer CFO week, Evelyn Carter Spencer urges campers to take spiritual "vitamins" such as victory, the Holy Spirit, and mercy each day. She also recounts choosing to marry a man named Bill, even though he did not match the tall, dark, handsome man she had once pictured.
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