Messages spoken at the Aqueduct Omaha 1994.
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The Aqueduct Conference of 1994 was the first held away from Chapel Hill, and it opens with Tommy Tyson unpacking the name: an aqueduct carries water by gravity alone, and no one can be denied access to it. He then hands the weekend to the resource person, his longtime friend Wayne McLean. Audio is poor and the tape breaks off in mid-sentence.
Wayne McLain takes campers’ questions after a talk on the resurrection, comparing the glorified Jesus to a television broadcast that reaches everywhere at once. He also reflects on heaven, the ascension, and growth after death.
Teaching in the camps, Tommy Tyson asks why Jesus prayed at all and answers that prayer is “a committed communion,” not a way to talk God into a project. He tells of a friend who asked the Lord which ice cream flavor to choose and heard “The one you prefer,” and of a woman in a New York garment factory who cried out in despair and heard “Yes, I hear, and I care.” Audio is uneven in spots.
Wayne McLain describes for the camps what he calls “the judgment of love and mercy.” He uses a story about softening his young daughter’s temper, and another about Jesus renaming Peter “Rocky.” He closes with his own account of receiving the Holy Spirit after publicly confessing his doubts in a small mountain church.
Tommy Tyson describes staying at a plush Park Avenue club where nobody knew he was an evangelist. He told the members he loved them and needed their prayers, and by Sunday they were walking him to the door. He calls that laying God’s claim on people, a reverence he urges on campers across the movement. He pairs it with Estelle Carver refusing to hand her pocketbook to two young thugs.
Wayne McLain opens with a story about a heavyset man mistaken for perfectly “sanctified” while his wife split the firewood. He warns the camps against self-condemnation, then unpacks Jesus’ promise, “I will not leave you comfortless, I myself will come to you.” He closes with a dying man’s dream of Jesus greeting him at heaven’s door.