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Watching the deadly battles happening in the Middle East and around the world reminded me of my own experience as a reporter in a war zone and the power of fear in the hearts of people. I first heard the term “Asymmetrical Warfare” while videotaping in Southern Lebanon with the Israeli Defense Forces in early 2006. Battles were raging with Hezbollah and its terrorist allies. We drove through battlefields, saw missiles hit Haifa and learned firsthand the nature of this type of warfare. Asymmetrical means “without predictable order.” Early one evening, my crew and I arrived at a home hit...

As a new NFL season kicks off this week I was reminded of this story. Clint Gresham, all American kid, could have ended up dead. Instead, he became a Super Bowl champion, team captain, a Maximized Man and a CMN ally. Clint was on the winning side as a member of the Seattle Seahawks. But he was far from winning as a man. Rejected by his stepdad, his youth was a mess of alcohol and mayhem. Even though he attended church as a kid, nothing was real until Jesus captured him through the powerful words of a friend. A friend’s...

Days before he died, my father Ed Cole asked me, “Are you gonna keep it going?” I told him YES. And then I added, “and it won’t just be me.” In myself, I’m limited. What sustains CMN is a team—a true network where each of us uses our gifts and talents for the single cause or reaching men for Christ and discipling them. The result of working together is success in over 100 nations for almost 50 years. And we’re still working. We’re a network, a team, a tribe—a brotherhood. Your personal gift or talent from God makes a difference...

Nehemiah said, "At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us." That means, “Wherever there’s a fight… meet us there! We fight in the victory of God’s strength!” Wherever you and I turn, it is increasingly obvious that we are in a battle for the souls of men. The malice of the cultural wars is increasingly hostile. Christianity is no longer the prevailing worldview in America. Christianity is now the counter-culture in our postmodern world. The sickness of Godless wisdom has blinded the world to the death spiral it...

So. Let’s say you’ve made some progress this year. You’re positioned to make a positive difference in your family and relationships. You have a plan for the next steps of your job or career—it's coming together.  Then what? The man next to you - he's your next mission. He needs what you have. Consider these true stories: Ray was on his way to ruining relationships, destroying his child's future, and spinning into a dark future. Then some strong men came around him. At a men’s group at a local church in Texas, he forgave his father, then got remarried, started fathering...