Host · Men After God
Adrian Ferrari
“Strength is not in how loud you can be, how hard you can hit, or how quick you can fire back. It’s in wisdom. It’s in self-control.”
Scripture, leadership, discipleship, some hard questions, plenty of grace, and probably coffee.
What he keeps coming back to
A hunter doesn’t pull the trigger without checking what’s in his scope. The shot is loud, it’s fast, and it’s final. There’s no way of calling it back. Your words are the same.
Adrian Ferrari, episode 162He loves opening the Bible, working straight through the text, and asking the question the rest of us would rather skip.
“Okay, but what are you going to do about it?”
What he teaches
The ordinary discipline that keeps a man from drifting
Adrian is a husband, a dad of five, a pastor, a church planter, a missionary and a Bible teacher, and he has spent most of his ministry building, rebuilding and developing people. That work has taken him from planting churches and training leaders in Argentina, to planting churches in New England, to pastoring and revitalizing churches in the Midwest. Through all of it one conviction has held: following Jesus should change the way you live.
For Adrian, biblical manhood isn’t being the loudest guy in the room, pretending you have it together, or projecting a tough-guy image. It’s a man who pursues Christ, leads faithfully, owns his failures, exercises self-control, serves others, and keeps showing up.
And he knows most men don’t destroy their lives overnight. A compromise here. A neglected relationship there. A discipline dropped. A private struggle nobody knows about. Eventually drift takes a man somewhere he never meant to go.
Words
The tongue, self-control, and why the comeback is not strength.
The text
A book at a time, verse by verse, with something to do about it this week.
Drift
What goes quiet in a man long before anything visible breaks.
What he is working on
The battle before the fall
He is at work on a book about the life of David, written for imperfect men who follow a perfect God. The thesis, in his words: if God can use an adulterer and a murderer like David. With the harder half attached, that some doors stayed closed to David for the rest of his life.
In his own words
God doesn’t evaluate your words. He evaluates your motives. Are you sorry you sinned, or sorry you got caught?
Episode 164Let the Spirit of God bridle your tongue, so your words build up instead of burn down.
Episode 164, Real Strength Is Self-ControlNot the perfect man, but the pursuing man.
Episode 167, Tame Your TongueThe short version
For the people who need the facts
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Four of his episodes
Working with Adrian
Preaching, men’s events, and Bible study for a room of men
He teaches in English and Spanish. Tell us what your men need and when you need it, and we will tell you whether it is a fit.
Where are you drifting right now that nobody has noticed yet?
Adrian Ferrari