Messages spoken at the 1960 California Sierra Family CFO
California Sierra Family CFO 1960:
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The 1960 California Sierra Family CFO met at Camp Sierra, in July 1960. The speakers were Elizabeth Kunkel and John Parke, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Guidance, Jesus, Praise & Thanksgiving and Spiritual Growth. Choose a message below to listen.
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The first of three talks on abundant living, and John Parke makes self-surrender the first secret of it for the California Sierra Family CFO in 1960. Francis of Assisi singing through the night in a barn, blind and dying, because he knew he was where he was meant to be, is where he leaves it.
Humility, defined as thinking greatly of others, with thankfulness as its twin, is the second of John Parke’s three talks on abundant living at the California Sierra Family CFO in 1960. In it a boy at confirmation does not want to share the rail with his twin, and a lodger tells each resident of a boarding house what they might yet become.
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Knowing Christ personally rather than by observance, with three named ways of practicing his presence. John Parke gives the 1960 California Sierra Family CFO a dying man who kept an empty chair beside the bed for Jesus, and was found afterwards with his hand resting on it.
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A moral universe requires a future life, John Parke argues, and the practical consequence is what you let your mind feed on from day to day. He draws the line of judgement not at the end of things but straight through every ordinary day, in this talk to the California Sierra Family CFO in 1960.
Elizabeth Kunkel leads an examination of the selfish will at the California Sierra Family CFO in 1960. Her examples are a father woken by his children, a mother pitying herself over the chores, and a written list of shame to be carried out to the churchyard.
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