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After a long conversation, the interviewer asked Ben, “Do you think you’re ready to die?” Ben Sasse was a U.S. Senator for Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. Previously a college president and then, following his Senate work, President of the University of Florida. He is 54 years old. He is married with three children. In December of 2025, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He has been told he's in the last months of his life. This month, he has been a guest on many broadcasts, talking cultural issues, telling his story, and of his faith in God. The...

Reading the Bible is the most inexpensive thing you can do to enrich your life—not reading it is the most expensive mistake. In the back of every CMN Majoring in Men workbook, we have a Bible Reading Guide to help you read the Bible through in a year. It may sound ambitious, but think again. A man complained to one CMN leader that it would take "so long" to read the whole Bible. The leader answered, "Well, how long are you going to be a Christian?" Bam! One man emailed his thanks: "I never thought I'd get back with my...

Paul and Silas were a couple of young, hardworking followers of Jesus. Because they talked about their faith, magistrates in a Roman city ordered them to be beaten and thrown into the local dungeon—not a great place to be. (See Acts 16.) At midnight, deep in the darkness of the dank, squalid hole carved out of the side of a hill, Paul and Silas start singing. They sing of their faith. Songs of praise and joy. Jesus is Lord. God is my shepherd. On and on. The other men in prison listen (as if they had a choice). As they...

Every man faces the same decision again and again: wisdom or impulse, discipline or appetite, risk or gamble, conviction or compromise, purpose or drift, courage or cowardice, love or lust. Wisdom is knowing the difference. In the CMN book Communication, Sex, and Money, we teach the three basic temptations every man faces, from Adam and Eve to the present day. Eve saw that the fruit was "good for food, pleasing to the eye, and desirable for wisdom" (Genesis 3:6). These three basic sins are spelled out in the New Testament as:  "For all that is in the world, the lust...

You and I deal with nonstop distraction and clutter, decisions and conflicts. The world clamors for our attention. And yet, the one assignment Jesus specifically gave us was to "go make disciples." How do we do that? Bishop Kenneth Ulmer tells the story of auditing a college class. He didn't attend class, but wrote a stellar final paper to get his grade. The professor agreed it was a terrific, then failed him. Ken saw the big "F," then read the professor's comment: "This was not the assignment." Most men are confused on the assignment! Most men are not on mission!...