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Freedom doesn't always start in comfortable places. Sometimes freedom starts in the dark. A man I met just a week ago had an encounter with a CMN audiobook that led to an encounter with Christ that led to an encounter with reality that led to an encounter with another person. Then — boom! — people were set free. As he was listening to the Maximized Manhood audiobook alone in his car, a thought occurred to him. He might—maybe possibly could —have been perhaps at least partly—be responsible, maybe just a little to blame, for his massive marriage issues. He prayed....

The Bible is woven with the faith of women whose prayers became the tapestry of history. It was Hannah who wept, prayed, surrendered, and gave birth to Samuel—the prophet who heard the voice of God when a nation had nearly forgotten how to listen. It was Jochebed, the mother of Moses, who placed her son in a basket on the Nile, trusting God with what she could no longer hold in her own hands. It was Naomi and Ruth, walking through grief and loyalty, whose story became part of the lineage of King David. It was Elizabeth, long acquainted with...

Men who prepare for disaster are told to keep a BOB—a bug-out bag—ready at all times. Water. Fire. Food. Tools. First aid. The essentials for survival. That's wisdom. But life’s greatest disasters are not always hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, or war. Sometimes the disaster is a marriage under pressure, a son drifting away, a private temptation, a business failure, a diagnosis, a grief you cannot outrun. In those moments, a man needs more than supplies on his back. He needs brothers at his side. The most important BOB is not a bug-out bag. It is a Band of Brothers. You may...

The mountains around Lake Tahoe have a way of enlarging a man’s soul. The air is clean. The sky is wide. The granite stands like old warriors who have seen storms and refused to move. I was sitting with my friend Wes near Truckee, talking about life—wins and losses, opportunities and pressures, the goodness of God. Wes spoke about giving to orphans and sending the gospel around the world. He had learned something every man must learn: Giving is the external evidence of love. “God so loved the world that He gave…” Love gives. Lust takes. Greed hoards. Fear withholds....

In the obscure hills of the southern Sinai desert, the late afternoon hangs heavy—hot, breathless, bruised with wind and dust. The sun lowers like a burning shield, and the wilderness seems to hold the assembled men in a grip of exhaustion ... and death. Death has drawn its jagged signature across the faces of the warriors and priests. Grief sits on them like desert ash. Their leader is gone. The man who met with God on the mountain. The miracle man. The man who faced Pharaoh, parted the sea, struck the rock, carried the tablets, and stood between God and...