Messages spoken at the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO
Colorado Summer CFO 1974:
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The 1974 Colorado Summer CFO met at Covenant Heights Bible Camp, Estes Park, in June 1974. The speakers were Agnes Sanford, Betsy Serafin, Reginald (Reg) Goff and Ross Creighton, and they spoke on the subjects of Authority, Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Healing, Inner Healing, Jesus, Love, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Reg Goff retells the prodigal son for the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO as the story of a father who runs, and reads the robe, the ring and the shoes as deliberate signs that the restoration is complete.
Speaking to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, Reg Goff insists that God is love rather than merely has love, and unpacks his own hard-won definition of it as “the desire to bless with everything you have.”
Reg Goff says praying for an unbelieving husband or child accomplishes little on its own, and that the real work is becoming the person through whom they are convinced someone loves them. From the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974.
Agnes Sanford describes a vision in which Jesus asked her, before she was born, whether she was willing to come to earth for a hard work of healing. She then retells Gethsemane as Christ absorbing the grief of all humanity, in a talk to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974.
Agnes Sanford prays here for places rather than for people, daily over the San Andreas Fault, which she calls her biggest patient, and for six days at Notre Dame while war ran in the Near East. She ends by asking her hearers each to take one college quietly into their prayers. The talk comes from the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO.
At the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, Agnes Sanford tells of standing alone on a shore near a wildfire. She spoke aloud to the wind, asking it to reverse into a fine, damp, misty, rainy wind by morning. She then teaches five short affirmations for training the mind to draw daily on that same authority.
Melita was crippled from birth and healed as a child, and she grew up praying over a circle of empty chairs, with someone in need imagined in each. Agnes Sanford tells her story at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, then teaches campers to ask God, rather than their own preference, whom to choose for the prayer of faith.
A roofer brought Agnes Sanford a small bonsai garden to thank her for prayer that healed his kidney stone. She then describes for the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974 what she says arrived when she first received the Holy Spirit: burning, joy and peace.
Agnes Sanford gives the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO practical instruction on leading a prayer group, discerning a yes from a no, and praying for healing in a circle. George Washington Carver’s way of addressing his Creator about the peanut, and a room filling with blue light while a distant man was prayed for, illustrate it.
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Betsy Serafin walks the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO through Job’s successive losses, to argue that dying to self is a daily business rather than a one-time joy at conversion. She points to a Carmelite keeping an empty cross beside his bed, and to Gibran’s children shot out like arrows from a bow.
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Ross Creighton opens the week of the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO on prayer for guidance and prayer of faith, then spends the second half on what strangles faith, from a preoccupation with disease to resentment left unconfessed.
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Talking to the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974, Ross Creighton describes announcing a prayer group before he had one and then scrambling to fill it, and offers what he learned about running them since. He recruited his first member from a woman raking leaves, and found the young people preferred to pray lying on the chancel floor.
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Reg Goff argues that the kingdom advances through discipleship rather than programs, and tells the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO that authority comes only to those under authority, taking the centurion’s chain of command as the pattern.
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Ross Creighton fills a blackboard with diagrams of the mind as an iceberg, showing how buried hurt and unconfessed sin darken it, then reads David’s grief over Absalom as the pattern of Gethsemane. From the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974.
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Reg Goff teaches the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO both sides of forgiveness from Matthew 18, and tells a woman who kept confessing the same thing that she had made herself far more thorough than God.
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Ross Creighton reads 1 Corinthians 13 to the 1974 Colorado Summer CFO to argue that eloquence, prophecy, faith and sacrifice all count for nothing without love, and sets Hitler’s broadcasts beside Churchill’s as eloquence with and without it.
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Reg Goff urges the young people at the Colorado Summer CFO in 1974 to live out God’s own love without fear, in their families and toward anyone hurting. They are children of God rather than worms, he insists, and they already work for the one who made them.
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