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Paul told the Galatians that trying to be justified by human effort was foolish! We are judged righteous by our faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross. We can't do enough good works to offset the negative. Paul says we were all prisoners of sin, and we receive God's promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. (Galatians Chapter 3) My father, Edwin Louis Cole, wrote a powerful devotional about the exchange that takes place at the cross. He lists the benefits we have from going to the cross. I’m posting those below. And for a...

C. S. Lewis wrote: “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.” Decisions. I’ve met and worked with many highly successful men. One thing they all share is: they are decisive. I often teach men, “decide against yourself.” We are all master negotiators. One day, we make a decision to work out or study God’s Word. The next morning we wake up and, before we’ve finished a cup of coffee, we’ve negotiated out of it, and decide to start the following day instead....

The World Cup hasn’t even started, but the media is packed with stories comparing Messi vs. Ronaldo. Which one is soccer’s GOAT, or will one fall this year from “clutch” to “cooked”? Which were their best games … how do they compare? That made me reflect on my own life. How do I gauge myself? How do you measure your life? Do we rest on past successes, past miracles that God did for us? Or do we continually press forward in Christ? Dr. Ed Cole, my dad, warned us to be wary of “faded glory.” You’ll enjoy this devotional by...

Sometimes a man's story or a seemingly random encounter is such a God miracle, it's almost hard to believe. It happened last week as CMN Mexico conducted powerful events across the nation. Hundreds of men's lives transformed and churches strengthened. I'm flying home today, but here's the story... After one great event we sat at coffee with Alejandro Escobedo, who pastors a significant church in Mexico City. He told us that twenty-eight years ago, when he was a young pastor, he went to a meeting with Dr. Ed Cole in Mexico City. A businessman traveling with Dr. Cole gave his...

I played golf with a man who missed almost every putt … he kept complaining, “Man, I never get any luck.” Have you ever thought the negative: “That’s just my luck.” Albert King, the great blues artist, said it this way, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.” That sometimes seems like our reality, but that doesn’t mean it’s true. As men of God who follow Jesus—whose lives are based on the bedrock of God’s Word—we don’t have to bow to negative, destructive thoughts or believe reports about disasters of all kinds overtaking us....