Messages spoken at the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO
Colorado Summer CFO 1966:
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The 1966 Colorado Summer CFO met at YMCA Association Camp, Estes Park, from June 28 to July 2, 1966. The speaker was Willard Ireland, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Peace, Prayer and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Willard Ireland traces Jesus’s three calls, “come unto me,” “come, follow me,” and “come, abide with me,” in a message given at the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO. He then uses the pledge a young princess made on her twenty-first birthday, to “venture beyond the safeties of the past,” to describe what following Jesus costs.
Past the baby, the carpenter and the tomb to a Christ who is loose in the world now. Willard Ireland works from a line of Masefield’s toward what discipline actually costs in timing, in growth and in loving. He closes the session at the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO with a letter from a boy in custody, whose greeting was crossed out and written again.
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At the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO, Willard Ireland reads the Comforter of John 14 back to its root, the one who comes with strength rather than the one who softens things. He describes the years he and his wife spent hunting the Holy Spirit down the coast, and the priest who ended the search by telling him to sit still and accept.
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A boy who dug up his peas every few days to see how they were doing gives Willard Ireland his picture of impatient praying. Prayer is watered by tears of repentance, of joy and of thanks, he tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1966. His own early praying, he admits, was a grocery list.
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The feeding of the five thousand read as a set of keys to living in the kingdom now: being present, seeing the need, using what little is to hand, obeying, expecting, and thanking God for something specific. Willard Ireland offers the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO a mustard seed sealed in a plastic charm as his picture of faith kept ornamental.
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A short meditation taking Psalm 46:10 a word at a time, separating knowing from understanding and reading the name given to Moses strictly in the present tense. Willard Ireland sends the 1966 Colorado Summer CFO straight out of it and into their prayer groups.
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