Messages spoken at the Iowa CFO 1987.
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On their first night at the Iowa CFO in 1987, Larry Eddings and his wife Audrey share their pastoral journey, beginning with Larry’s burnout in ministry. He also tells a golf pro’s story about beating any opponent with more than “one thing” on his mind, and applies that to keeping Christ the single focus of the week.
Larry Eddings tells of Beckett, a skeptical teenage surfer who dared God to prove himself at a starlit campfire. Beckett reported seeing “a huge silhouette of a person against the sky with light radiating around it.” From there, in this message to the 1987 Iowa CFO, Larry Eddings traces how a believer’s lost joy in Christ can be restored.
Larry Eddings recalls sensing Christ silently seated beside him during a solitary drive, and meeting a frightened hitchhiker minutes later. He closes with a foster child who was badly burned in a house fire and who recognized a photo of Jesus at once, saying, “That’s Jesus. He’s my friend.” He was preaching at the Iowa CFO in 1987.
Larry Eddings tells of a defiant camper he nearly sent home. Instead the Lord told him to read 1 Corinthians 13 at the dean’s dinner, without comment, and that reading led her to ask forgiveness and accept Jesus. The story comes from the 1987 Iowa CFO.
During a week of teaching at the Iowa CFO in 1987, a woman asks Larry Eddings about being baptized in the Holy Spirit. He answers with a question: do you have to be told you are holding an electric fence? He then prays with her as tears streak through her makeup.
A young man about to be married pictures his inherited anger as a steel beam welded around his own neck and his father’s. Larry Eddings walks him through cutting it free in prayer. It is one of several healings recalled from the 1987 Iowa CFO.
At the Iowa CFO in 1987, Larry Eddings pictures a mother eagle’s eaglet falling again and again as it learns to ride the wind. He then closes with a communion meditation on grains of wheat crushed together into one shared loaf.
Audrey Eddings surveys several ways she has heard God speak. One is an audible warning about a troubling book; another is a vision that frees a woman from her fear of balloons. She closes with a quiet answer to prayer that helps her find a lost contact lens. The talk was given at the Iowa CFO in 1987.
At the 1987 Iowa CFO, Audrey Eddings teaches forgiveness as the key to every kind of healing. She recalls how she and her husband forgave each other after two interrupting phone calls ruined a canceled date night. She also prays with an elderly woman who cannot forgive herself for forcing her teenage daughter into an abortion decades earlier.
Audrey Eddings admits she has never been able to run to God the Father with open arms. She traces that distance to how she was taught about God, to painful loss, and to her reserved earthly father. In this talk to the 1987 Iowa CFO, she closes with a vision of being carried, as a small child, into God’s presence, where he sets an oversized crown on her head.