Series: New Hampshire Winni CFO 1965

To the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1965, Cliff Richmond preaches on living victoriously. He retells how a tightrope walker’s crowd cheered his stunts above the falls but would not climb into his wheelbarrow. That is a picture of belief that never becomes trust.

Cliff Richmond gives three questions for testing a prayer, illustrating them with a grocer who learned to pray for the rival grocery opening across the street. That kind of asking, he tells the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1965, is a path into conformity with the will of God.

Love has to be practiced on people we do not yet like, Cliff Richmond argues, preaching through Paul’s hymn to love at the 1965 New Hampshire Winni CFO. Beauty, he says, had to love the Beast before he could become the Prince.

At the 1965 New Hampshire Winni CFO, Cliff Richmond tells how he traded a hurried, critical, easily irritated self for the very disposition of Christ. Surrender, obedience and trust, he insists, are what let another life come to dwell within his own.

Jesus held the very first camp farthest out, Cliff Richmond tells the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1965. Jesus retreated to lonely places, and he pushed his disciples past comfortable religion. He points to the night Jesus knelt to wash the disciples’ feet and did not skip Judas.

Sickness, accidents, and war are never God’s will, Cliff Richmond tells campers at the 1965 New Hampshire Winni CFO, but God takes what he never wanted and makes it redemptive. He pictures Middle Eastern weavers working from the wrong side of a tapestry while the master weaver weaves their mistakes into the finished pattern.

Cliff Richmond tells of young Christians who inoculated village chickens for free by lantern light, until an onlooker said the lantern itself told him something about their Jesus. People read the gospel in changed lives rather than in books, he presses on the New Hampshire Winni CFO in 1965.