There's only so much growth you can experience in your normal rhythms of life. That's why Jeff Ford has pushed his limits to the extreme by summiting the tallest free-standing mountain in the world—three times! In this episode, he shares the powerful faith and fatherhood lessons that he's learned from doing such physically challenging things with other men.

Key Takeaways

• How your children view God is directly dependent upon how they view you. Therefore, reflect His image today.
• Doing hard things physically is analogous to the Christian faith because you must count it all joy when you face trials of many kinds.
• Create drive-by phrases—quick, pithy reminders of your family's values.
• Don't wait until a Mount Kilimanjaro experience to find your brotherhood.

Jeff Ford

Jeff Ford serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Man Up and Go, a global non-profit organization that mobilizes men to fight for the fatherless as Jesus commands. He also serves in several advisory and advocacy positions and has summited Mount Kilimanjaro three times. Jeff and his wife, Liza, live in Florida with their two children.

Key Quotes

• 10:05 - "How your children view God is directly dependent upon how they view you, therefore reflect His image today. I know that my kids are looking at me and their view of God is going to be shaped by the father that they had on earth. Their Heavenly Father, they're going to hear that language in church. How we reflect Jesus, God the Father to our kids is going to have an impact on their view of God, and I believe their sentence of Him."
• 22:34 - "This is an opportunity for growth and nothing changed except our mind. Nothing change except for our outlook. And you think we are so caught up in this materialistic world and that we judge things based on what we can see, taste, touch, smell. And yet the Bible says that our battles against, not that stuff, it's against invisible powers of which is the mind. The mind is an invisible thing that somehow integrates with the physical thing called a brain, but comes out in this ethereal, invisible, and that is what actually drives your decisions, is your mind."

Links from Today's Conversation

• Man Up
• Man Up Trips
• Patros

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