Messages by Ann Secrest

Messages spoken at various Camps Farthest Out by Ann Secrest.

Messages Given By Ann Secrest

Tempered Like a Toledo Blade

Ann Secrest closes her week of talks with an extended picture of a swordsmith who tempers steel through repeated fire and water until it can bend without breaking. She compares that to how God prepares a believer to hold more love than they yet can. The talks came at the Indiana CFO in 1965.

A Cracked Tooth Before Her First Camp

Continuing her talk on pride at the Indiana CFO in 1965, Ann Secrest recalls how a cracked front tooth wrecked her vanity the night before her first church camp. She then turns to a passage from Francois Fenelon that defines true humility as pure, self-forgetting love.

The Yoke Fitted to the Shoulder

Ann Secrest names pride as the deadliest sin, a spiritual failure that hides inside good things. She pictures the Christian life as an ox yoke shaped to rest easily on willing shoulders, then leads campers at the Indiana CFO in 1965 into communion.