Messages spoken at the West Virginia Summer Family Camps Farthest Out
West Virginia Summer Family CFO:
32 messages from 11 gatherings, 1956 to 1997.
Campers first gathered from September 19 to 26, 1956, at Camp Caesar, the Webster County 4-H camp near Webster Springs. Glenn Clark was to have spoken but died the month before, so Roland Brown spoke, Bernie Warfield came as second speaker and song leader, and Marcia Brown led rhythms, creative art and meditations. Betty Bacon was the first chairman.
Campers later gathered at Buckhannon and, from 1976, at Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, and the name West Virginia Summer Family dates from 1977. The recordings run from 1956 to 1997 and include Tommy Tyson, Alex McCullough, Genevieve Parkhurst and Bernie Warfield, among many others.
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Biscuits Off the Same Batch of Dough
Preaching at the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1956, Bernie Warfield recalls his conversion at his first camp in 1945. He then likens every believer to biscuits cut from the same batch of dough. Some are browned just right and others are scorched, but all are shaped by the same hand and headed for the same table.
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Bernie Warfield likens complacency to a golf ball resting in its hole. He follows Moses to the "backside of the desert," and closes with a hunter who is content to die clutching a single feather from the bird of truth. The talk was given at the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1956.
At the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1956, Bernie Warfield pictures unconquered jealousy, fear, and anger as charms dangling outside a soul. Small daily mercies, like giving up the best piece of toast, work each charm loose. Once a charm is dropped inside, it can no longer trouble its owner.
Orange Juice With the Seeds In It
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The Comeback Love
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Saved Little Babies
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Making Love Visible Again
The Minister Whose God Had To Die
The Purple Is Not There Until the Grapes Are Ripe
The Three Thirteens
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Eternal Parental Love
Guidance Is the Result of Walking With a Guide
The Anatomy of a Witness
He Went About Doing Good
The Gospel Army at Clarksburg
Helen Keller and the Lion
The Holy Spirit Is the Consummation of God's Love
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Tell The People I Love Them
Agnes Sanford made her weekly communion for one year of her life at a time. Working back that way, she came upon a childhood illness at the age of three that changed how she understood her own nervousness. She gave that account to the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1972.
A Chicago schoolboy told his teacher he thought well of himself because "my God didn't make any junk." Tommy Tyson called spiritual inferiority the greatest blight there is, opening the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1973. He promised campers that the Holy Spirit would spend the week stirring up gifts they did not know they carried.
I Did Not Mention the Golf Clubs
Tommy Tyson was ready to walk out on a cold church. Then Rufus Mosley asked him, "Wouldn't it be a wonderfully good thing if you had enough fire to melt the ice?" We are not our own, he tells the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1973, and he passes on three rules for keeping a fire: shake the clinkers out, keep the draft open, keep adding fuel.
God finished his creative purpose for man in Jesus, not in Adam. The real question is not whether you accept Jesus, but whether you dare believe God has accepted you. Tommy Tyson brings that home to the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1973, with a boy who bragged that the president of Yale would get no bath. The man was his daddy, and the boy had the tub stopper.
The Sun Through the Purple Glass
Healing rests on the bodily resurrection, Tommy Tyson tells the West Virginia Summer Family CFO in 1973, because a man is on the throne of the universe and it is his risen life that reaches our bodies. Sunlight comes through the purple glass windows around him, and he makes it his picture of Christ shining through a person and showing what that person truly is.
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The Trash Can With the Latin Motto
Ten Miles of Liquid Love
The Cat That Cured My Hay Fever
You Love God - I Will Love Daddy
The Note Behind the Clock
How To Permanize Your Peace
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Let Down the Wheel
The Colt Found Ken's Thumb
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Every Person Has a Different Fingerprint