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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...

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...