Lifelong Minister Leighton Ford Discerns God’s Voice and His Own in “A Life of Listening”
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In this episode 169, we visit with Leighton Ford, author of “A Life of Listening: Discerning God’s Voice And Discovering Our Own.”
In this memoir, lifelong minister of the gospel Leighton Ford tells his story as a personal history of listening for God’s voice. Beginning with his earliest memories, he recounts the different ways God has spoken to him, and the different ways he has learned to listen.
Through the joys of ministry, first as an international evangelist, often in partnership with Billy Graham, and later as a leader of the Lausanne Movement and a mentor of emerging leaders, Leighton remembers God’s voice proclaiming, instructing, reassuring. Through the pain of deep loss, he remembers God’s voice calling out to him, even in the deafening silence.
What emerges is not just an account of a long and faithful life of Christian service, but a picture of the Christian life—the life of listening. What will it sound like, Ford asks, when God speaks to you?
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About the Author:
Author Leighton Ford is president of Leighton Ford Ministries, which seeks to help young leaders worldwide to lead more like Jesus. For many years, Leighton communicated Christ around the globe through speaking, writing, and media outreach, addressing millions of people in thirty-seven countries on every continent. He served from 1955 until 1985 as associate evangelist and later vice president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and was featured as the alternate speaker to Billy Graham on the Hour of Decision broadcast.
Ford describes his current mission to be “an artist of the soul and a friend on the journey.” He served for nearly twenty years as chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, an international body of Christian leaders. He chairs the Sandy Ford Fund and has served as a board member for World Vision U. S., the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received the 1990 Two Hungers Award, recognizing his contributions to addressing the physical and spiritual hungers of people around the world. In 1985 he was selected as Clergyman of the Year by Religious Heritage of America and TIME Magazine singled him out as being “among the most influential preachers of an active gospel.”
The author or coauthor of numerous books, including Transforming Leadership and The Attentive Life, Ford lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Jean.
Reviews
“A stunningly beautiful and deeply moving memoir! Take a deep breath. Read slowly. Through Leighton’s story, hear the Voice that awakens you to a life of eternal beauty and incomparable blessing.”
Ken Shigematsu, pastor of Tenth Church, Vancouver, BC, author of Survival Guide for the Soul
“I have been grateful for the voice of Leighton Ford in my life for the past twenty years. The person who has ‘ears to hear’ and a willingness to listen will hear the voice of the Lord in these deep and insightful pages from his life and ministry.”
Foley Beach, Archbishop, Anglican Church in North America
Paintings By Leighton Ford
St. John’s Church, Valle Crucis, NC “Billy’s Gate,” opening out to the mountains near Billy Graham’s home
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