Series: Northern Michigan CFO 1983

Messages spoken at the Northern Michigan CFO 1983.

The Promise I Forgot On the Ladder

At the Northern Michigan CFO in 1983, Ruth Robison opens her week with an apple tree she had promised her daughter she would never climb alone. She describes the fall that tore her foot apart, and she raises the question of why a Christian forgets a promise. She then sends the campers out to hand one another a spiritual gift on the way to breakfast.

The Blackbird At My Glass Door

Ruth Robison traces the human Jesus from Nazareth to the temptations. She tells the campers at the Northern Michigan CFO in 1983 how she blew three times into the mouth of a dead blackbird at her door until it revived and flew to her tallest tree. She also recounts a Tokyo breakfast where a Buddhist doctor asked her, “What have you got in Jesus Christ that I haven’t got?”