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John Hobbs recounts handing out anointing oil and Gideon Bibles with his friend Kenny, the two of them shutting down a Roy Rogers restaurant for two hours. He then turns to Philippians 2 to call campers to serve and obey as Jesus did, in a talk to the 2003 Florida Family CFO.
At the 2003 Florida Family CFO, John Hobbs opens with a lighthearted mix-up over two campers who showed up to breakfast still in their pajamas. He then turns to repentance and integrity, contrasting David’s affair with Bathsheba with Joseph fleeing Potiphar’s wife rather than sin. He urges listeners to choose obedience now rather than learn the hard way.
John Hobbs tells how his five-year-old granddaughter Victoria named her mother’s miscarried baby Melody. She asked to “be there when Melody comes out of the sky.” He turns that childlike desire into a meditation on wanting the heart of Mary, closing with a challenge every camper carries home from the 2003 Florida Family CFO.
John Hobbs preaches to the 2003 Florida Family CFO on the difference between authority and power. Walking through Luke 4 and Romans 8, he shows that believers already have authority as God’s children but still need the Holy Spirit’s power to live it out. He recalls standing helpless at a grieving Marine family’s home early in his ministry, before he had received that power himself.