Messages spoken at the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO
Colorado Summer CFO 1971:
12 messages.
The 1971 Colorado Summer CFO met at Covenant Heights Bible Camp, Estes Park. The speakers were Cliff Richmond and Estelle Carver, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Jesus, Love, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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One man knew the psalm and the other knew the shepherd, and Cliff Richmond presses the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO to say which describes them. He recalls Glenn Clark sitting undisturbed through clacking latecomers at the founding camp, a boy drowned at Koronis whose memorial went to Japan as goats, and a man converted because his wife became easier to live with.
The Hebrew proverb tells a complaining man to go and buy a saddle for himself, and Estelle Carver has spent a teaching life saying much the same to boys who wanted their marks changed. She tells the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO of a father lifting his son above a crowd so he could see, and sets that against the honesty her pupils needed more than kindness.
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Asked whether anyone had really heard an ass speak, Estelle Carver told the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO to turn on the television. From Balaam she moves to the cost of the book itself, to a rabbi’s plural noun with a singular verb in Genesis, and to men who wore out their eyes copying by hand what is now left unread on a shelf.
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An addict in New York sold his own mother’s spectacles, and Estelle Carver puts him in the far country beside the prodigal to trace the road back through reflection, resolution and repentance. The elder brother is the worse prodigal of the two, she tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1971, and he never goes in.
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Starr Daily walked forty miles beside a single railroad track through mirage after mirage, and Cliff Richmond makes that the whole message. Legalism, social action, healing and religious feeling all turn into mirages the moment they are set above Jesus himself, he tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1971, and a rider stays on the spinning disc only by keeping dead center.
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A man grows by learning to speak giant words like courage and faith and hope, Cliff Richmond tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1971, and Scripture is where those words are learned. He warns against treating the book as a charm, tells of a New Testament that stopped a bullet, and of a professor who took nothing else away with him for six months.
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A runaway son came home to be told “the door had never been locked,” and Estelle Carver hangs her whole drama of redeeming love on that sentence. Walking the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO through God as Creator, Governor, Redeemer and Sanctifier, she ends on the door in Holman Hunt’s painting that has no handle on the outside.
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An argument over whether a bird in the psalm was a pelican or a vulture gives Estelle Carver her way into translation, and from there into Romans as a plan of salvation with three walls and a door through each. Sheep do not bolt, she reminds the Colorado Summer CFO in 1971; they nibble their way lost.
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Hold scarlet glass over a scarlet rose and the flower turns white, which is Estelle Carver’s demonstration of Isaiah at the last session of the Colorado Summer CFO in 1971. She names the eight men in Scripture who said “I have sinned,” recalls a priest shut in a camphor-smelling cloak closet, and tells of a lifeguard who drowned saving a boy who had ignored him.
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God only seems silent, Cliff Richmond argues, because overwhelming proof would cost us the freedom to choose him. He reminds the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO that an east wind blew all night before the sea parted, and tells how his own mother’s death in an influenza epidemic turned him back from engineering to the ministry.
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There was one well in Spain that Estelle Carver was forbidden to visit by herself, and she uses that restraint to begin the prodigal son. Restraint, restlessness, request, responsibility, recklessness and retribution carry the boy away from home, and the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO is left at the far country with the return still to come.
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Told why willows weep because they would not lift their branches, a child understood something a magazine competition could not manage when it failed to produce one modern lullaby that mentioned God. Estelle Carver gives the 1971 Colorado Summer CFO poetry, pictures, precepts, prayer and praise as the five things that build wonder into a childhood.
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