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Important, from Stephen Mansfield
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New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, men’s leader, and speaker Stephen Mansfield will join Paul Cole and other great leaders during the 2021 Global Summit.
CMN GLOBAL SUMMIT | “LIONS ROAR”
HOPE: Rise Up, Recover All
November 4-6, 2021 | Dallas
In a world that seems to spin increasingly into chaos, in a year when our personal worlds seem uncontrollable, it’s important to have a Control Room.

The Word of God reigns even in confusion. “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. And be thankful.” (Colossians 3:15).

I’m going to talk to you about your Control Room at the CMN Global Summit. It is one of the most important truths of manhood that I have ever learned.

And going to the Global Summit is one of the most important things I’ll be doing in the next few months. 

I’m bringing a friend because it’s vital that we carve time out to gather as men, as brothers, to encourage and minister to each other, and to learn from other men. And I’m asking you to do the same. Join us, and bring a friend.

The Control Room is not a place, not even a specific time of day. The Control Room is a condition in which we place ourselves before God. In this condition, we conduct a life-scan. We’re not necessarily praying. We just lay out everything in our lives. Our spouse. Our investments. Each of our children. The work we’ve been given responsibility for. Our issues with neighbors and relatives. The ministry we’re engaged in.

This condition can happen in the early morning, while on a run, late at night on your back porch, on the couch in your office, in the car in your workplace parking lot.

Every man who’s going to be a good and godly man needs to find a time to get into this condition, this Control Room, and allow our heart, our soul, our imagination to flow over our life before God.
I encourage you to quiet yourself before the Lord, to place decisions that determine your life before God, and allow him to give you His perspective, leadership, guidance, impressions. I’ll tell you more when I see you.

Please grab a friend like I did and join me at Lions Roar, the CMN Global Summit. 

The theme is HOPE: Rise Up and Recover All. 

I can’t think of anything more fitting for men today.

Iran: into the heart of another dangerous nation
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Following on the heels of last week’s powerful Vietnam Livestream, we are now headed to the heart of one of the Middle East’s most dangerous nations, Iran, broadcasting in Farsi.

Join with the brotherhood on October 11-12 (Monday & Tuesday), from 9-11 pm Central (10 pm -12 am  Eastern). Monday’s broadcast follows Monday Night Men at 8 central. Learn with us in English at 8. Watch us in Farsi at 9.

View it here: CMN YouTube Channel or Facebook. 

Please consider giving a generous gift today to help support this outreach into one of the darkest places on the planet. It’s not too late to help Iranian men know Jesus!

GIVE TODAY

Maximized Manhood has already been translated into Farsi (pictured above) and we’re in the process of developing training for pastors and discipleship for men right in Iran. 

All of these resources will be available digitally for FREE.

Each “Dangerous Nations” broadcast costs roughly $20,000. Faithful men have given toward this Monday’s broadcast. The budget is incomplete. 

Every $100 helps train a leader, who will then train 20-200 men.

Every $10 matters.

Be Ready for Opportunities!
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Doug Stringer will open the 2021 Global Summit with prayer and will close with an anointing service. If you need prayer or a fresh outlook, join him, Paul Cole, and other great leaders.
CMN GLOBAL SUMMIT | “LIONS ROAR”
HOPE: Rise Up, Recover All
November 4-6, 2021 | Dallas
One of the greatest honors and delights of my life is having the incredible spiritual heritage God has provided me. But, at least half of everything He has done started with me just showing up.
 
On the day before this year’s 2021 CMN Global Summit on November 4-6,our ministry will receive the 2021 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Disaster Volunteerism. The only way we could get that award is by showing up, and by encouraging about a thousand volunteers to show up as well.

I want to encourage you this November to join me and hundreds of men who just show up to be challenged and encouraged by some of the greatest men and ministers walking the planet. We’ll encourage each other, minister to each other. And have deep times of prayer and ministry together.

Please take this great opportunity to bust out of the routine, and get a fresh perspective and a fresh dream. God wants to do that for you.

CMN has taught us not to pray for opportunities, but to pray to be ready when opportunities come. 
Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 16:9, “A great and effective door has been opened unto me but the adversaries are many.” Often the adversary is trying to keep us from getting involved in something bigger than ourselves. But that’s what we need.
We’ve learned that the key to success is timing–being the right man, at the right time, in the right place. 
This is one of those opportunities, and one of those times when we have a choice. Sure, you’ll have to get organized, get others to fill your shoes for a couple of days, but I am certain you’ll be grateful for the rest of your life that you attended the Lions Roar Global Summit.
 
Join me and a lot of great men, and let’s be the right people, at the right time, in the right place. Registration is easy and fast here. Be sure to bless a friend by bringing him, too. 

What are you waiting for? Today is the time to take action!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW!

Final night of Vietnam telecast – starting soon
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CMN was LIVE across Vietnam last night! Remarkable!

Last night pastors and leaders across Vietnam gathered in large groups, small groups, and individually. From Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Da Nang, Nha Tang, and beyond, these men were captivated by the powerful messages.

Pastor John Arana and Pastor Sam Masteller taught tremendous sessions from the book Strong Men in Tough Times translated into Vietnamese. This was a strong and on-time word for the men of this pivotal Southeast Asia nation.

Tonight is our final night and we want you to join us – 10pm Eastern / 9pm Central on YouTube or Facebook

Please keep PRAYING for the men of Vietnam. 

And please GIVE.

Your gift, right now, will help us finish this outreach STRONG. 

Let’s do what we do as a brotherhood – let’s RESCUE MEN.

May God keep you deep within the grip of his favor and grace.

We’ll look for you in a few hours.

GIVE TODAY

Live telecast to Vietnam starts tonight
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Start off a powerful week tonight by joining the CMN brotherhood across the globe. The two-night, Vietnam live telecast begins tonight at 10 PM Eastern / 9 PM Central right after Monday Night Men at 8 PM Central / 9 PM Eastern. 

BE PART OF THIS TELECAST:

PRAY for our CMN brothers in Vietnam and the hundreds of pastors and leaders joining the broadcast.

JOIN for part or all of the broadcast on the CMN YouTube Channel. Be sure to join Monday Night Men at 8 central, followed by Vietnam at 9 central.

HELP reach more Vietnamese men for Christ. It’s not too late! Donate today.

Your support of CMN helps reach men in Vietnam and over 100 other nations around the world. This is a powerful missions outreach to rescue men, transform families and defeat fatherlessness.

Watch on YouTube or Facebook. 

We’ll look for you tonight!

GIVE TODAY

Vietnam: big results, and another broadcast!
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TAKE A LOOK AT THIS GREAT VIETNAMESE CMN LEADER
 
Dear Brother,

This Vietnamese man IS equipped with the CMN resources he needs to live a successful Christian life in a communist country and reach other men for Christ.

Please help more men like him

Join with the brotherhood on October 4-5 (next Monday & Tuesday), from 9-11 pm Central (10 pm -12 am  Eastern). We will broadcast straight from the CMN studios to the men and leaders of Vietnam, translated in their own language. 

View it here: CMN YouTube Channel.

Would you please consider giving a generous gift today to help support this broadcast? It’s not too late to help Vietnamese men know Jesus!

Each “Dangerous Nations” broadcast costs roughly $20,000. Faithful men have given toward this Monday’s broadcast, but the budget is incomplete. 

Every $100 helps train a leader, who will then train 20-200 men. Every $10 matters.

320 Days in Lockdown
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Live and in-person at the Global Summit: Paul Louis Cole, John Binkley, and Robert Barriger at the CMN Summit 
CMN GLOBAL SUMMIT | “LIONS ROAR”
HOPE: Rise Up, Recover All
November 4-6, 2021 | Dallas
Dear Brother,

Think your battle looks too hard? I wish you could have joined me in Peru for 320 days in total lockdown.

In March 2020, Paul Cole and I were headed to Argentina to conduct a massive men’s event when instead, everything shut down. Paul was able to catch the last flight out of Peru at 2:30 in the morning. As the last plane left, everything stopped in Peru. 

During the next 320 days, our church family was scattered. Covid invaded our house—twice. Friends lost their lives. Karyn and I were huddled at home, unable to help, restricted even from going out on the streets. It was a tough, tough time.

When I was a kid, I dreamed of doing things. But I was a fatherless runaway living on the beach, riding waves every day. Then I met Jesus and got a new dream. I dreamed of a church. I dreamed of a ministry. I dreamed of having men in my life like my brothers in CMN. 

God gave me all my dreams and more. But every now and then, especially during this past year, I wonder, why can’t this dream ever get any easier?

Lots of men are thinking the same right now. But—God is speaking to men as he spoke to David centuries ago after a terrible defeat that cost him his family. God’s word for us today is:
TAKE COURAGE. 
HAVE HOPE!
RISE UP AND RECOVER ALL.

That’s the theme for this year’s CMN Global Summit, “Lions Roar,” on November 4-6 in Dallas, Texas.

I’ll be there. I wouldn’t miss it. 

After this lockdown, I need to be with men of God, with men of courage, with men who inspire me to have HOPE. To RISE UP AND RECOVER ALL.

What has God done before when I found the courage to rise up and recover all?

I’ll tell you.

My wife, our two babies, and I arrived in Peru 35 years ago. All of our support came from friends through a post office box 12 miles from our house. On my weekly trek to the post office box, I would pray that a check would be there waiting.

On my walk one day, a nine-year-old boy looked up at me and said, “Can I be a woman for you?” He was hungry, so he had learned to prostitute himself to eat. 

I thought, “Oh God, what kind of men would abuse kids this way?”

I prayed hard for God to send someone to help these kids. I prayed hard for my adopted nation. And I prayed hard for enough money to feed my own family for another week.

One day as I prayed, I heard a voice say, “Who will I send?” I had been praying for some big leader to come to help Peru. Instead, God laid it on me. 

I thought, how could that be? I was just a born-again surfer who could barely raise enough money to feed my kids and keep ministering.

Friends helped me build our first orphanage. In the jungle where we ministered, an Ashaninka Indian tribal chief got word to us that his son was going to be kidnapped by terrorists. I asked how many kids were at risk. He said, “All of them.” 

I said, “We’ll take them all.” 

I didn’t know how God would provide, but I had to do what God said to do. 

It wasn’t easy. The dream has never been easy.
We rescued an entire village of kids. The next generation of Ashaninkas was raised in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and that chief’s son went all the way through college.

There’s nothing easy about what God asks us to do, but we just do it anyway. 

In CMN, we say, “We are CMN. We rescue men!” 

JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD AT CMN GLOBAL SUMMIT

It’s not easy to rescue some men. And sometimes, it’s not easy to rescue ourselves.

Some rescues are messy. But let’s do it anyway!

The battle you fight today to recover from the pandemic, to keep your marriage together, to find a new job or a new way to make a living, to build your own business—these are all winnable battles. 
Sure, these are tough days, but we do it anyway.

When you rise up and recover all, the rest of us draw strength and courage from seeing your victories.

And you’ll draw strength and courage from seeing our victories at this year’s “Lions Roar” CMN Global Summit.

SAVE $100 WHEN YOU REGISTER TODAY

So, if somehow my story gives you the hope you need today, I’d love to hear about it at Lions Roar. I’ll see you there.

We are CMN. We rescue men. Even during a pandemic.

Your friend,

Robert Barriger 
And to that, I say: Do it anyway.
You haven’t lost, it’s not over yet
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CMN GLOBAL SUMMIT | “LIONS ROAR”
HOPE: Rise Up, Recover All
November 4-6, 2021 | Dallas
This year’s Global Summit, live and in person, will provoke an exponential explosion of fresh ideas, new aggressive implementation, “good works,” powerful strategies for reaching men in the streets and cities of our world.

Every speaker is uniquely qualified to inspire, instruct and engage us to be in the world and reach the world – until we reach every street and every heart.  

Today’s world doesn’t need a few nice guys in the church. The world needs men with resolve who refuse to back down. Men with a sword. Men who are STRONG! 

The Apostle Paul described the clothing of a man who is a warrior, resilient, faithful, bold, and ready for battle.. He said: We are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
 
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. (Eph 6:10-12, 17-18)

The sword of the Spirit – that’s our weapon. God’s presence always prevails.

REGISTER TODAY TO JOIN THE BROTHERHOOD.

These are the men who are joining together at the CMN Summit – men with swords. Men who take care of their brothers. Men who gather other men around them to experience the power of the Word together. 

Your family, church, and community need you…a man who is overflowing with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit!

Early Registration is open for this year’s annual gathering of the brotherhood in Dallas, TX. November 4 – 6.

REGISTER TODAY and SAVE OVER $100. 

May the Lord bless you and keep you in the center of the battle. 

Dangerous, daring, resilient, faithful…Stronger.

Today is our 50th Anniversary!
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My remarkable wife Judi and I have been married 50 years today. FIFTY.

We’ve had some amazing days and some difficult ones – but we are here – resilient, in love, faithful, blessed, and fired up about the future.

I remember the first time I saw her across a crowded room at a youth conference when I was 17. I remember our first kiss. I remember her walking down the aisle of the church in Santa Rosa, California, fifty years ago.

And I remember the many times she has shown such great courage. As she wrote this scripture to friends last November, little did she know how real that verse would become just a few weeks later when she was diagnosed with cancer and then healed of it.
 
“Fear not, for I am with you. Do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will hold you up and retain you with my VICTORIOUS right hand of rightness and justice.” AMP Isaiah 41:10

Her scripture of encouragement parallels the scripture God gave me as a young man, still alive in my heart today:
 
The steps of a good man are
 ordered by the Lord,
 And He delights in his way.
 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
 For the Lord upholds him with His hand.  Psalm 37;23,24 NKJV

Today’s journey may be ordered or rocky, but it always comes back to this: Keep showing up.
 
The love of God is without condition, but His promises are conditional on our faithful obedience.
 
Someone asked me yesterday how to stay married for fifty years – I said: Keep showing up.
 
That’s who we are as stalwart men of CMN.

We make mistakes, but we repent, get back up, and get cranked up again, because we…Keep showing up.
 
I am most blessed because Judi gave me her hand as a helpmeet, wife, and lover. Our grandchildren adore their ‘Gammi’ and her children respect and love her.

Thank you, Judi, for filling my life with love and beauty and life and courage. I would do it all again. Every moment… though I’d do a few things better. 

Because of all of this, Judi and I are filled with this year’s theme for the CMN Global Summit – HOPE.

We could have lost hope many times. But God kept his word. God was faithful. God was full of mercy and grace.

Because when we show up, God will always, always, always keep showing up.

Elijah’s temptation to quit / MNM
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The same temptations to quit that happened to Elijah are the same for every man.

Elijah had just finished a huge battle. He won. He had victory – but he was tired … and alone. Then the culture wanted to cancel him. 

In 1 Kings 18 we find Elijah wiped out tired, sitting under a tree, running from a queen who wanted to kill him. He had just killed over 400 of her pagan priests, had called fire from heaven, had raised a boy from the dead, had prayed and it didn’t rain – and prayed again and it rained three and a half years later. 

This man was a warrior, but he was tired. Here’s the five temptations that happen to all of us;

Depression, despair, inferiority, resignation, failure. A spirit of negativity had captured his thoughts. Then, God encouraged him. “Elijah, I’m here”, God said. Then God told him this – “Elijah, there are 7,000 other men who are your brothers and are following me with the same passion. You’re not alone”. 

What Elijah needed to hear was that God affirmed him and that other men were with him. That’s why we do the Global Summit in November – to be with men fighting the same fights, to encourage our hearts, to rise up with courage. That’s why we do Monday Night Men and the BraveMen podcast … to stir up courage in our hearts!

Paul later told his young student Timothy, “God did not give you a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power and love and strong wisdom”. That’s the presence of God in your life.

MONDAY NIGHT MEN. YouTube 8pm Central and staying on that site all week is the third session of Real Man. This is one you need.

Rise up from the temptation trap of Elijah – you’re not alone. You have brothers. And God has placed in your heart the fulness of His presence and power.

Join us tonight or this week for Monday Night Men (type that in your YouTube browser – or meet us on the Christian Men’s Network Facebookpage). 

Rise up. Walk with the Lord, be filled with courage.