Messages spoken at the 1957 Michigan CFO
Michigan CFO 1957:
4 messages.
The 1957 Michigan CFO met at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, from June 23 to June 27, 1957. The speaker was Bernis "Bernie" Warfield, who spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Forgiveness, Guidance, Jesus, Spiritual Growth and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
At the 1957 Michigan CFO, Bernie Warfield speaks on Moses tending sheep in what he calls “the backside of the desert.” He recalls his first pastorate on five dollars a week, and a gift from a stranger that outfitted his children for their Noblesville graduation. He closes with a wanderer who glimpsed the spires of a city before the mist closed back over them.
Bernie Warfield tells of finding his alcoholic neighbor Buck crawling barefoot in the snow after losing his shoes. He also tells of forgiving two white men from his Kentucky boyhood who had humiliated him, framing both as the same hunger that drove the Samaritan woman to the well. He was speaking at the Michigan CFO in 1957.
Bernie Warfield preaches Paul’s shipwreck from Acts 27, urging listeners to hang onto any broken piece of truth they can reach. He recalls being given seven dollars for rent after asking God for work in Kokomo, Indiana. He brought the message to the Michigan CFO in 1957.
Bernie Warfield contrasts the man formed of dust with the spirit made in God’s image in a talk to the Michigan CFO in 1957. He illustrates the soul’s pull toward God with tree roots that traveled fifty feet across his Kalamazoo yard seeking a damp sewer pipe.