Messages spoken at the 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO
Texas Hill Country CFO 1959:
7 messages.
The 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO met at Mo Ranch, Hunt, from February 28 to March 3, 1959. The speakers were Genevieve Parkhurst and Glenn Harding, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Healing, Kingdom Living, Prayer, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Glenn Harding argues to the 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO that living faith means testing what Christ commanded, until you break through a barrier of resistance into real power, borrowing the image from a pilot passing the speed of sound. He notes that water takes far more heat to cross from boiling into steam than it takes to reach boiling at all.
Genevieve Parkhurst argues to the 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO that a church becomes victorious through shared testimony among believers, and through reliance on the atonement. She recalls a neighboring family who served “roast preacher” for Sunday dinner, and a mother-in-law who vowed never to criticize a minister.
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Speaking to the Texas Hill Country CFO in 1959, Glenn Harding shows how small unsurrendered resistances block joy, and how each new point of testing calls for surrender all over again. He begins with a broken shoelace at a camp in New Hampshire that showed him how little of himself he had actually handed over.
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Genevieve Parkhurst testifies that a vision of the living Christ at the foot of her bed dissolved a cancer. She turns to a world frightened by the atomic bomb with the question put to Daniel, “is your God able,” and describes learning to pray by daily practice the way a concert pianist practices. She was speaking to the 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO.
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Glenn Harding distinguishes a spiritual glow from a spiritual flow and shows how honest confession, humility and love keep the flow open. He recalls an African fellowship described by Norman Grubb taking the roof off and pushing the walls down, and an interpreter confessing publicly in the middle of it. From the Texas Hill Country CFO in 1959.
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Genevieve Parkhurst leads the 1959 Texas Hill Country CFO through mental vestibules into an attitude of prayer: a peaceful scene, something beautiful, the people they know best. She describes the eight months of costly discipline, three hours a day, by which she learned to pray.
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Genevieve Parkhurst calls her hearers to approach God in confident adoration rather than in fear, moving out of self-centered petition into working alongside him. She compares praying “Our Father, hallowed” to the way a courting couple greet one another. From the Texas Hill Country CFO in 1959.
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