Messages by Willard Ireland

Messages spoken at various Camps Farthest Out by Willard Ireland.

Messages Given By Willard Ireland

Willard Ireland discusses the three calls of Jesus before the commission during this talk from the 1966 Colorado Camps Farthest Out.

Continuing his message on Peter at the Nebraska CFO in 1956, Willard Ireland explains the deeper word “cherish” behind Jesus’s third question. He also recounts Jesus telling a distracted Peter, “you follow me.”

Willard Ireland walks through Peter’s threefold restoration on the shore after the resurrection. He traces how the question “Do you love me?” deepens each time Jesus asks it, and closes with the charge to feed the sheep. The talk was given to the 1956 Nebraska CFO.

Willard Ireland opens John 9 and distinguishes Jesus’ compassion from mere sympathy. Jesus makes a paste of spit and clay for a blind man’s eyes and sends him to wash in the pool of Siloam. Ireland prays that campers at the 1972 Montana CFO stay just as willing to obey.

Willard Ireland walks through Paul’s armor of God from Ephesians. He turns to the promise that if God’s people humble themselves and pray, God will “hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” The session, at the 1972 Montana CFO, closes with campers laying hands on one another in blessing.

At the Montana CFO in 1972, Willard Ireland traces the story of a blind man healed at the pool of Siloam. Neighbors doubt him first, then synagogue leaders, and finally his own parents. Jesus finds him again, and the man falls down and says, “Lord, I believe.”