Messages spoken at the Washington Camps Farthest Out
Washington CFO:
81 messages from 21 gatherings, 1955 to 2000.
Bette and Paul Hamlin went to their first CFO at Koronis in 1946 and began asking Glenn Clark for a camp in Washington. Their hope was answered in 1963, when campers gathered at Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat in the Cascade Mountains.
Holden Village was home until 1973, and since then campers have met at many places around the state, often at The Firs in Bellingham. The recordings run from 1955 to 2000 and include Larry Eddings, Earl Tyson, Eugene Wiesner, Jo Kimmel Chestnut, Bill Pifer, Roy Salmon and Tom Walker, among many others. The eight oldest, from 1955 to 1961, come from before the first camp.
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A preacher's picture of hell as a box canyon with no exit left Starr Daily, then four years old, in a terror that eventually ran to crime. His life story, told at the 1955 Washington CFO, moves from his father's unanswered prayers to a solitary cell where Jesus looked at him without a word and the fears were gone.
Four Healers Carry a Nation To the Roof
Glenn Clark preaches the greatest commandment, then pictures four healers who died within a year of one another. They are, he tells the Washington CFO in 1955, the very four men who once carried a paralyzed man to a rooftop and lowered him down in front of Jesus.
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The Boy Who Prayed One Nerve At a Time
At the Washington CFO in 1960, Agnes Sanford tells of a teenage boy who refused to accept his friend's polio-shrunken leg as final. He studied a medical textbook so he could pray for one nerve and one muscle at a time. The leg came fully back to life.
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The Unconscious Captain Who Knew
Agnes Sanford tells of an unconscious army patient who had never opened his eyes. She prayed over him in secret, and the next week he greeted her, saying he had felt her prayer and got well. The law of love, she tells the Washington CFO in 1960, fails only when something we built blocks its flow.
The Veteran Who Brought Back All the Church Folders
A plane-crash veteran visited every church in a distant city collecting their bulletins, then came back to report, "I tried them. Everyone. It wasn't there." Agnes Sanford sets that missing presence against a woman healed of a fatal depression in a single service, in a talk to the 1960 Washington CFO.
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Faith is a capacity you already use every time you sit in a chair, Tommy Tyson tells the 1961 Washington CFO, and it grows through sacrifice and persistence. He remembers a frail woman who rode a bus from Indiana to Oklahoma, certain God had sent her there to be prayed for. She would not be talked out of it.
Every Christian is a minister, and no part of the body can serve itself, so we are given to one another. Tommy Tyson makes that case at the 1961 Washington CFO. He tells how his seventh grade son offered to resign as class representative after breaking the rules on a school trip, and how his classmates voted him back in.
The Tool Shed Against My Fence
Jesus invades all time and all space, Tommy Tyson says, and the widest gap left is between you and anyone you do not love. He tells the Washington CFO in 1961 how he crawled the fence to apologize to the neighbor whose new tool shed he had criticized. He also says why he will not call Hanoi the devil's territory.
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The Secret of Life - God In You
A Great Religion You Never Experienced
Two Wheelchairs At the Baptism
Laddie Wanted To Go To Duke
The Wrong Label On the Sugar Jar
Adam naming the animals becomes, for Tommy Tyson, the pattern of confession itself. We name our own sin honestly, we name who we are in Christ, and we speak a redemptive name over another person. Campers at the 1965 Washington CFO hear that a wrong label wounds, like arsenic in a jar marked sugar.
Edward Winkley describes faith as untroubled trust in Jesus, illustrating it with a bumblebee that flies although its wings are too small for its body. He warns campers at the 1965 Washington CFO against naming themselves by their weaknesses, since "what gets your mind gets you."
Growing up a preacher's son left Tommy Tyson immunized against the gospel. This comes from the 1965 Washington CFO. The dose was small enough that he never caught the real thing. Opening a week of morning talks at the camps, he presents the cross as God's revelation of how he feels toward each person. He quotes Rufus Mosley: "Ours is the reverse side of the cross of Christ."
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The Young Russian Pianist
Finger Exercises In Love
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Gifts of The Holy Spirit
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Paul's Corinthian Letters, Part 1
Gospel of John
God's Yes to Man and Man's Yes To God
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Diary of Prayer
Labels, Pigeonholes and Other Lies
Reading Heaven As Spirit
The Apple I Am Aiming At
The Race We Are In
They Have Taken Away My Lord
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The Cowboy Who Learned To Sing
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Brownie Points and Stars In My Crown
The Man In the Next Room
The Rambler From Kentucky
The Wind Took My Notes
Be Still Means Stack Your Arms
At the 1980 Washington CFO, Earl Tyson traces three steps into knowing Jesus: surrender, submission, and satisfaction. He begins with his claim that "be still and know that I am God" is a military order meaning stack your arms. Authority, he says, grows only out of submission, and nobody would swap a filet mignon for a fifty cent hot dog, though people trade the real for the cheap all the time.
Heaven Has Invaded and Occupied This Planet
Earl Tyson tells how a stranger in Hagerstown turned out to be a diesel broker on the Sunday his tank ran dry, and argues that no one walks into the kingdom of God unaided. At the 1980 Washington CFO he describes the earth as a planet heaven has invaded and occupied, where God gives exactly the power a life needs and never a thousand horsepower for a job that takes half of one.
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Earl Tyson says the kingdom is offered right now, and the tragedy in the prodigal story is the elder brother who would not come to the party. He tells of giving up a salaried pastorate, buying a windowless old house with money that arrived the day before it was due, and taking in Edith Savage, a woman who could not hear or speak, brought from a jail cell to his home and renamed "Edith Christian" the night she was set free. He brings these stories to the 1980 Washington CFO.
At the 1980 Washington CFO, Earl Tyson preaches urgency. He retells Kierkegaard's story of Isaac, who secretly overheard his parents agree to fake their obedience to God and mocked their prayers ever after. He also describes baptizing a dying burn patient named Neil from a Dixie cup, after Neil begged him to "do it now."
Earl Tyson argues that freedom in worship and freedom to minister to others come together, and reads Isaiah on binding up the brokenhearted. He produces the healing stick a boy had asked him about that morning, and tells of the beating from his father at thirteen and the stump where he finally forgave him. Recorded at the Washington CFO in 1980.
The Trick Is Washing Dirty Feet
Earl Tyson describes Jesus washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper. He repeats his brother Tommy's line that "anybody will wash clean feet" but "the trick is washing dirty feet." At the Washington CFO in 1980, he tells his despairing wife Betty that her unbroken love for a suicidal girl in her care was itself the presence of God.
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Commitment To Excellence
From the Hangar To the Sky
Jesus As My Big Annie
Pick Up the Ball and Give Them Hell
The Day I Told Bruce I Loved Him
The Inkwell and the Ruler
The Woodlot They Fenced Away
You Never See the Pilot
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Do Not Let a Cap Sheep Lead It
It Is You That Makes the Love Go Round
Plain Unadulterated Gravity
Priming the Pump
Proxy For Clyde
The Crystal Pipe
The Glory Seat
The Town That Prayed At Noon
Wet Christians and Dry Christians
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Fear Is a Vacuum
Making Jesus Lord, Not Just Savior
My Ace in the Hole
Relationship, Not Religion
Royal Sons and Daughters of God In Christ Jesus
The House With Seven Rooms
The Kettle and the Gold
The Organist Who Forgave Mrs. Brown
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Forgiveness Is the Key
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Tom Walker takes on the phrase people reach for at gravesides, "it is the will of God", and asks whether a father would really do to his child what disease does. From the Washington CFO in 1988, with Leslie Weatherhead in India and Agnes Sanford recalling the moment she wondered what kind of God she was praying to.
Three Visits From Jesus
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A Hole In the Fence
My Sheep Hear My Voice
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The "Christian Bill of Rights"
The Anointed Cherub Who Fell
Larry Eddings leads campers through Ezekiel's river vision at the 2000 Washington CFO, where the wading from ankle deep to over the head pictures yielding to the Holy Spirit. He then tells of a visitor named Joy, who is restored to her faith at a healing service.
Falling Flat on His First Flight
Larry Eddings tells of a Golden Eagle that crash-lands three times before trusting an unseen current to lift it into flight. He ties the bird to his own burnout as a pastor and to words he once spoke in worship, "I have not forgotten you. I have not forsaken you. I have not failed you. Trust me," later meant for a grieving man. He gave the talk at the Washington CFO in 2000.
The Tire That Was Going to Blow
Audrey Eddings teaches campers to recognize God's voice. She retells how a warning about a bad tire saved two carloads on an African road, and tells of a woman she calls Jeanette, who rose from her wheelchair to "waltz" with God in a vision before her brain tumor disappeared. The talk comes from the 2000 Washington CFO.
Forgiveness Works Like Penicillin
At the 2000 Washington CFO, Larry Eddings retells the parable of the unforgiving servant, calling forgiveness a surgery rather than a feeling. He describes coaching a woman to repeat "Tony, I forgive you" until she means it. He closes with a story of Jesus, on his coronation day in heaven, still looking for Judas.
Audrey Eddings describes healing a buried childhood memory in a man named Brent. As a boy, Brent was called a thief by his father, who dislocated his shoulder. His rage lifts only once he forgives his father and sees a vision of Jesus sitting beside him on the sofa. She told the story at the Washington CFO in 2000.
Larry Eddings and his wife Audrey lead a forgiveness and inner-healing workshop for the 2000 Washington CFO, building on the previous day's teaching. They then demonstrate the method live with a volunteer, who forgives relatives for wanting a son instead of a third daughter and pictures Jesus rejoicing at her birth.
The Candy Store Window She Could Not Enter
Audrey Eddings traces her marriage for the Washington CFO in 2000. She begins with washing her hair in an Oregon lake when she first saw her husband, and moves on to a season of cancer and her grandson's death. She ends with a vision of Jesus welcoming her back into a candy store that had been forbidden to her family for generations.
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Larry Eddings traces seven ways he sees the Holy Spirit working in Jesus' life, from new birth to resurrection. He then tells of his teenage escape into movies and his conversion at a Billy Graham crusade, and recalls a drive over Snoqualmie Pass when, he says, "the Lord got in the car with me." The message comes from the Washington CFO in 2000.
If You Are Willing, Make Me Clean
Larry Eddings retells the story of the leper who knelt before Jesus and said, "if you're willing, you can make me clean." He traces the physical, spiritual, and relational healing in that one story. Preaching to the 2000 Washington CFO, he then tells how a friend's crushed neck pain vanished overnight, with no one touching him.
The Anointed Cloths That Stopped the Bleeding
At the 2000 Washington CFO, Audrey Eddings tells of her own reluctant call, sparked by Moses at the burning bush. It was a call to leave the Pacific Northwest and lead a healing ministry in Tulsa, where cloths she anointed for the sick reportedly stopped a woman's bleeding hand.
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