Messages spoken at the 1990 Southern California CFO
Southern California CFO 1990:
9 messages.
The 1990 Southern California CFO met at Presbyterian Conference Grounds, Big Bear Lake, in June 1990. The speakers were Bert Kerley and Norman Renshaw, and they spoke on the subjects of Camps Farthest Out History, Christian Living, Faith, Guidance, Healing, Inner Healing, Integrity, Love, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Bert Kerley describes the nervous breakdown that followed his infant son’s death and years of hidden strain. Speaking at the 1990 Southern California CFO, he then describes a shoulder tap from an old friend. It led him to a retreat bookshop, where he found the book that began his healing.
Bert Kerley describes his practice of becoming still before making decisions. He recalls how the name “Peter” surfaced during a quiet hour, and how that name led him to the buyer who purchased his old house. The talk comes from the Southern California CFO in 1990.
Speaking to campers at the 1990 Southern California CFO, Bert Kerley continues the recovery testimony he began in the previous session. Books such as “God Calling” kept turning up just when he needed them, he says; one appeared on a shelf while he waited out a friend’s phone call. He credits Norman Vincent Peale with teaching him to relax, think positively, and say no kindly.
Bert Kerley tells campers of a woodcutter who climbs a distant mountain seeking God, only to find his own troubled home waiting at the summit. He also retells how the imprisoned Star Daily broke free of hatred by asking, “What if I had loved instead of hating.” He ties both stories to his counseling lesson that happiness rests on attitude, not circumstance, in a talk to the 1990 Southern California CFO.
Norman Renshaw traces the nine o’clock prayer back to wartime Britain, when families gathered by their radios and prayed as Big Ben rang out before the news. He also recalls being healed of malaria in Zimbabwe through the laying on of hands, and remembers the farewell his father spoke to him two days before he flew out. The talk comes from the 1990 Southern California CFO.
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Norman Renshaw calls what may be his last U.S. camp talk a gift, teaming with fellow speaker Bert Curley as “two Englishmen together.” He turns to the story of Jesus and the woman at the well to press campers toward honesty about “your spirituality and your sexuality.” Recorded at the 1990 Southern California CFO.
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This talk comes from the 1990 Southern California CFO. In an opening night welcome, Norman Renshaw recalls how, as the third of three sons, he inherited both grandfathers names. He revisits the very first camp he ever attended, telling of silent morning meditation and a couples scrambled eggs served instead of a hot fudge sundae, and urges total participation this week.
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Norman Renshaw preaches on “enough love,” recalling his Australian safari suit and his daily habit of praying while bouncing on a trampoline. Drawing on Emmet Fox and Thomas a Kempis, he urges campers to let God’s love flow into their hardest relationships, a message he brings to the 1990 Southern California CFO.
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Given at the 1990 Southern California CFO. Norman Renshaw teaches the “yo-yo,” his practice of sinking a chosen truth into the subconscious through repetition until it becomes power, recalling a morning he collapsed exhausted on the floor and prayed for renewed strength. He also tells how German campers spent months in prayer before choosing the name “Liebe, Leben, Lernen,” meaning “Learning to Live Love,” for the movement in their country.
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