Messages spoken at the 1950 Minnesota Koronis CFO
Minnesota Koronis CFO 1950:
6 messages.
The 1950 Minnesota Koronis CFO met at Lake Koronis Assembly Grounds, Paynesville, from August to September 1950. The speakers were Frank Laubach and Henry Hitt Crane, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Integrity, Jesus, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
Frank Laubach walks through the Sermon on the Mount as an imagined dialogue with Jesus. He then traces Paul’s image of all creation groaning to bring forth grown sons of God. The talk comes from the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1950.
On Signal Hill in the Philippines, Frank Laubach’s own lips spoke back to him one night. They rebuked the pride he held toward the people he had been sent to reach, with only his dog Tip watching. In his words, “something broke, something left, something came,” and a wave of love replaced it. He retold the story for campers at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1950.
Speaking to the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1950, Frank Laubach delivers a searching account of unconfessed national sin. He names greed, distorted freedom, and neglected missions as the very things Americans are proudest of.
Frank Laubach opens by praying for peace during the crisis in Korea. He then tells campers at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1950 of the apostle Paul’s revelations from the risen Christ. He borrows Stanley Jones’s image of an eagle riding out a Himalayan storm, saying “blow me off if you can, I have wings,” to picture a soul made secure in Christ.
Frank Laubach tells campers at the 1950 Minnesota Koronis CFO how his literacy work turned hostility into eager reading, first among the Moros and later among a New Guinea tribe. He ends with a tribal council of sixteen thousand people who asked to be baptized in a single afternoon.
Henry Hitt Crane retells how Peter drew a sword to defend Jesus and was told, “put up that sword into the sheath.” Crane cites sociologist Pitirim Sorokin on a coming third world war. Jesus, he argues, offers campers at the 1950 Minnesota Koronis CFO a third way beyond appeasement or war.