Messages spoken at the 1993 Iowa CFO Winter Retreat
Iowa CFO Winter Retreat 1993:
4 messages.
The 1993 Iowa CFO Winter Retreat met at Hidden Acres Christian Ctr., Dayton. The speaker was Jim DePue, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith and Jesus. Choose a message below to listen.
Jim DePue tells campers about a night of unplanned prayer in Cabin 42 at Cedar Falls that ran past curfew, framing it beside blind Bartimaeus’s plea, “I want to see.” Both belong to the talks he gave at the Iowa CFO in 1993 on how Jesus is rarely who we expect.
At the 1993 Iowa CFO retreat, Jim DePue contrasts the Church of the Brethren communion of his childhood, where farmers washed each other’s feet, with his own family and his wife’s family at holiday dinners. He calls both a picture of the family Christ builds among believers.
At the Iowa CFO retreat in 1993, Jim DePue uses his own dislocated shoulder and Jacob wrestling at the Jabbok river, to show how God sometimes has to disable us before we let go. He closes with John the Baptist’s charge, “he must become greater, I must become less.”
Jim DePue opens by asking what it means to truly know Jesus. He answers with a hospital chaplain whose line, “I can see right into your brain that you are troubled,” broke through his and his wife’s grief the night her father died. He was speaking at the Iowa CFO retreat in 1993.