Recordings From the Iowa CFO 1996

Messages spoken at the 1996 Iowa CFO

Iowa CFO 1996:

12 messages.

The 1996 Iowa CFO met at Riverview Park, Cedar Falls and Hidden Acres Christian Ctr., Dayton, from July 21 to July 27, 1996. The speakers were Harry Starbuck and Lollie Starbuck, and they spoke on the subjects of Camps Farthest Out History, Christian Living, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Guidance, Healing, Inner Healing, Love, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.

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  1. The Button of Faith

    Speaking to the Iowa CFO in 1996, Lollie Starbuck argues that everyday miracles go unnoticed for want of expectancy, and holds up a camera she calls “the button of faith” alongside a woman found in a crowd at a world’s fair.

  2. The Flow of CFO

    Opening the Iowa CFO in 1996, Harry and Lollie Starbuck explain how Glenn Clark began the movement. They walk through how the daily program works as an ebb and flow between inward and outward, for the benefit of anyone there for the first time.

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  3. Sealed In His Love

    Lollie Starbuck tells the 1996 Iowa CFO a lifetime of saying yes to God. One afternoon she saw Jesus while sitting in her own bathtub.

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  4. Thirteen Years of Pie

    Harry Starbuck tells the 1996 Iowa CFO how God changed him piece by piece through the near-collapse and recovery of his first marriage, starting with thirteen years of a pie he never wanted.

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  5. I Love You Forever

    Lollie Starbuck narrows letting go down to forgiveness, and works up to forgiving her own father, whose last words to her are the ones she still repeats, in this talk to the Iowa CFO in 1996.

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  6. You Cannot Go Forward Backward

    Hope, Harry Starbuck tells the Iowa CFO in 1996, is a daily decision to trust God’s plan, illustrated by a hunting trip that went the wrong way up the map and a small boy blowing bubbles.

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  7. What Does the L Stand For?

    Lollie Starbuck teaches that what we say and believe about ourselves shapes what we receive, and calls for blessing and forgiveness in place of fear-driven talk about body, memory and age. Recorded at the Iowa CFO in 1996.

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  8. Where the Hind Feet Land

    For the Iowa CFO in 1996, Harry Starbuck treats prayer as getting into condition, working through the thought life, the lifting of the eyes and centring prayer, with a streetcar scam in St Petersburg for good measure.

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  9. As Beautiful As It Was In the Mind of God

    Harry Starbuck teaches the 1996 Iowa CFO the practice of blessing, and then traces his own path from an emotionally starved boyhood to blessing parents, children, strangers, enemies and the created world.

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  10. The Abbot and the Silent Novitiate

    Lollie Starbuck traces prayer for the 1996 Iowa CFO from spoken petition into wordless availability, and passes on what Ruth Carter Stapleton told her about putting sticking plasters over memories.

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  11. The Edge of Our Map

    Harry Starbuck holds human planning and divine direction together, using a wartime tank crew who drove off the edge of the map they had been given. From the Iowa CFO in 1996.

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  12. How To Take CFO Home

    Closing the Iowa CFO in 1996, Harry Starbuck gives the camp concrete grooves of grace to run in at home, and opens with the morning an earthquake caught him in a steam room with his clothes on a hook outside.

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