Messages given at the Wisconsin CFO Camps Farthest Out
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At the Wisconsin CFO in 1959, Glenn Harding opens with a warning from Thomas a Kempis that Jesus “hath many lovers of his heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.” He applies it to casting out the ordinary fears that block love, illustrating with a hospital experiment in which a friendly dog is ignored until it stops eating. He also uses the saying “he isn’t heavy, he’s my brother” about carrying a tired child to safety.
Glenn Harding tells how the disciples fished all night and caught nothing until the risen Jesus told them to cast their net on the other side. He links the story to his own recent surrender to God after a serious hospital stay. Every church in his town, he recalls, “prayed for little old Glenn Harding” during his recovery. He was speaking to the Wisconsin CFO in 1959.
Tommy Tyson makes unconditional forgiveness the key to the kingdom for the Wisconsin CFO in 1984, borrowing an Arabian horse trainer’s picture of meekness, and telling of a wife whose forgiveness settled her though her husband never changed.
Tommy Tyson gives the communion message that closes the Wisconsin CFO in 1984. He teaches that the incarnation weds God to humanity, and that consecrated bread, like a consecrated person, is meant to become more than itself. He adds that whoever irritates us has usually pressed on a sore place, what one friend’s mother called “proud flesh.”
Speaking to the Wisconsin CFO in 1984, Tommy Tyson roots kingdom living in a love-response that keeps a person hungry, fed by willingness to fail and be rejected, and contrasts a whisper at Jairus’s house with a shout at Lazarus’s tomb.
Growth begins with accepting that the gift already planted in you is valid, Tommy Tyson tells the Wisconsin CFO in 1984, remembering Rufus Mosley and a nurse who offered to be healed by proxy.
Ruth Robison tells how her husband Lee died in January. The family gave him the going away party he had asked for: two open houses, a country church packed to the lawn, and a minister who opened the service by saying “there is no evidence of death here.” Her witness to the Wisconsin CFO in 1980 is that the Spirit of God is a mighty power in the midst of us.
Earl Tyson preaches from Luke on John the Baptist, who waited for God’s word in the wilderness. He then argues that sin works by handing people a false identity. Repentance, he tells the Wisconsin CFO in 1997, is simply an open door rather than a threat.