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There is a spirit in the air that encourages men to quit before they ever start. A creeping fatalism growing in the cracks of today’s culture.   It’s not big, bold, loud. It’s a quiet, slow growth. A pervasive hum. Fatalism looks sophisticated, educated, intellectual. It wears the clothes of realism and calls itself wisdom. Fatalism says the culture is too messed up, the family too broken, the church too weak, the next generation too lost, being married too difficult. It says men are too disparaged, too distracted, working too hard, getting nowhere. That is not realism. That is fatalism....

Ever wonder what to do? What is the right thing given the situation? How to move forward? David faced those questions. He was under pressure—soul-crushing pressure, the kind that bends a man low enough to make him wonder if he still has enough strength to stand back up. And in that moment, David did something every man of God must learn to do. He grabbed his own heart and told it the truth. He spoke life over himself. There are moments when you cannot wait for others to encourage you, cannot wait for circumstances to change, cannot wait for every...

Here's a facetious note ... one gleaned from personal failure and from years of observing ministry to men across the world. Here's a list of five ways to guarantee your ministry to men will die this year. But first, if instead, you want to launch a powerful ministry to men, order the Launch Kit or at least start with the field guide, Seven Keys: Building a Powerful Ministry to Men. Order that here now (https://cmn.men/products/seven-keys-building-a-powerful-ministry-to-men) . This list will help you frame where you're now at. You might also be able to add to this list - send me a...

Everyone has a story. For most of us, that story includes trying to find the right path, wanting to know where to turn … it includes rejection or betrayal or trauma or tragedy. There is a story in John chapter 9 of a beggar with a dark past … but his story was about to change. He was born blind. Unnoticed, unseen. If they did see him, they saw his limitation. Some saw his history. Some saw a problem to discuss and a theological argument to win. Jesus saw a man. Jesus touched him. The man was healed. His eyes...

A wealthy landowner spotted a young woman in one of his fields. Not an uncommon sight. Yet what he did turned something common into one of history's greatest stories. The woman was a foreigner, the widowed daughter-in-law of a woman who returned to her dead husband's hometown to survive. Two widows, broke, penniless, grubbing for anything to eat. The landowner, Boaz, had money. He had influence. He had reputation. The young widow, Ruth, was a poor, vulnerable, exposed immigrant. Desperate, she went to Boaz's field to follow his workers, picking up scraps to help her and her mother-in-law survive one...