Willard Ireland discusses the three calls of Jesus before the commission during this talk from the 1966 Colorado Camps Farthest Out.
Messages given at the Colorado Camps Farthest Out.
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Willard Ireland discusses the three calls of Jesus before the commission during this talk from the 1966 Colorado Camps Farthest Out.
At the Colorado 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.
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 Colorado CFO.
Evelyn Carter Spencer continues a Colorado CFO morning session 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.
Evelyn Carter Spencer is reunited at Colorado CFO 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.
Reg Goff retells the prodigal son for the 1974 Colorado 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.
Speaking to the Colorado 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 CFO in 1974.
At the Colorado 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.
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 CFO in 1974 what she says arrived when she first received the Holy Spirit: burning, joy and peace.