Messages given at the North Carolina Kanuga Camps Farthest Out
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Gertrude Dekock Keehn once asked God for a stranger’s forgotten address, and received it, unprompted, from a London taxi driver who turned out to be the woman’s nephew. She offers the story to campers at the North Carolina Kanuga CFO as one proof among many that Christ’s Spirit truly dwells within a person.
Gertrude Dekock Keehn returns to the same Luke 8 story of the woman who touches Jesus’ garment. She tells campers at the North Carolina Kanuga CFO of a woman whose arthritic hand straightened while she simply “got lost” in a meditation, and of her own daughter’s cancer clearing overnight after prayer.
Agnes Sanford recalls the one prayer group she resolved never to address again. Its members named only comfortable relatives, and they left out a ministerial student who was dying that same day. She carried the lesson into the prayer clinic she led at the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1959.
Agnes Sanford describes for the 1959 North Carolina Kanuga CFO how she healed a young minister who was so afraid in the pulpit that his knees knocked and his message fell apart. She asked him two questions about his boyhood. Then she prayed instead for the frightened fourteen-year-old still living inside him.
Agnes Sanford shares one of the stories she says she rarely tells. She prayed over a soldier whose abdomen had been entirely gutted by shrapnel, and weeks later she returned to find him alive, with new flesh rebuilt across the wound. The account went to the 1964 North Carolina Kanuga CFO.
Glenn Clark calls the prodigal son “the greatest short story ever told” and draws from it five steps of prayer, ending in relinquishment and action. He recalls a woman on the Chicago elevated who spoke of holding a matrix for money. From the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1954.
Cliff Richmond retells how a man chained among the tombs answered Jesus with “my name is Legion.” He urges campers to name whatever separates them from God in the same way. Only then, he tells the 1952 North Carolina Kanuga CFO, can they be forgiven and made new.
Tommy Tyson opens with a preface by Phillips that calls the first Christians “pioneers of a new humanity.” He then tells the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1974 that Christian prayer is beholding Jesus and accepting whatever you see in Him. When the old self stirs, he says, a Christian is a homing pigeon that turns straight back to center.
To the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1971, Jim Christian preaches on what it costs to be a “Jesus revolutionary”: denying self, taking up the cross, and forsaking every claim on his own life. He borrows Tom Skinner’s line about choosing to wrestle with “the certainties I could not escape” instead of his doubts.
Jim Christian reads the sad account in 1 Kings 13 of a young prophet destroyed by trusting an older prophet’s lie. He then follows Elijah leading Elisha across Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and the Jordan. The talk closes with Elisha’s request for “a double portion” of the departing prophet’s spirit. He gave it at the 1971 North Carolina Kanuga CFO.