Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 20:17 …I looked, and there before me was one […]
Herb Reese
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Do you know how much I love writing for you? I look forward to creating a new post for you every time I sit down at this keyboard. I hope you are as blessed by reading it as I am by writing it. This morning I was overwhelmed by a […]
The recent COVID-19 lockdown across the country has given me time to reflect on how glad I am that the Lord led me to transition New Commandment Men’s Ministries to an online ministry. Had I not done so, the ministry of training men in men’s conference workshops to do men’s […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog On Praying the Attributes of God By Herb Reese I recently read a published devotional by a well known Christian leader who is also someone I know personally. In it he describes how difficult it is sometimes for him to pray. “I must admit […]
“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ – yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for […]
Today is April 1st. And yes, it’s April Fools Day. But the issue I’m writing about is no joke because today is also the first time rent is due for millions of workers who have suddenly and dramatically lost their job through no fault of their own. The COVID-19 pandemic […]
Today is April 1st. And yes, it’s April Fools Day. But the issue I’m writing about is no joke because today is also the first time rent is due for millions of workers who have suddenly and dramatically lost their job through no fault of their own. The COVID-19 pandemic […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Evangelist Hans Romsdalen Goes to Oppdal, Norway By Herb Reese I recently learned something fascinating about my father’s relatives: The reason they immigrated to America from Norway was because they were fleeing religious persecution. Oppdal, Norway, located about two hundred miles north of Oslo, […]
“When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, ‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.’” Judges 6:12 Wham! Wham! Wham! Hot, sweaty, dirty, smelly Gideon hated threshing wheat in the bottom of his wine press. It was the ultimate humiliation. But threshing wheat in the bottom of […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog How the Early Church Overcame Its Racial Prejudice By Herb Reese “But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed. For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they […]
I used to say that, as a card-carrying introvert, if I were ever convicted of a crime and sentenced to solitary confinement, they would be doing me a favor. “Finally, time to think!” I’d joke. But no more. After almost three weeks of practicing strict “social distancing,” due to the […]
As many of you already know, Iron Sharpens Iron is an amazing men’s conference ministry that has been around for over twenty years. This year, ISI has over two dozen conferences scheduled. These conferences average around 500 men in attendance who hail from dozens of churches. Iron Sharpens Iron is […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Cancel Your Church’s Men’s Team Ministry This Month By Herb Reese A special note to my readers who attend a church with a men’s team ministry: In light of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, if your church has a men’s team ministry to its […]
Niche – adj., denoting or relating to products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population. “other companies in this space had to adapt to being niche players” A few years ago I and another gentleman gave two lectures on men’s ministry to a group […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Optimal Seating for Men’s Conference Breakout Sessions By Herb Reese I have a friend in men’s ministry who did his Ph.D. dissertation on what seating arrangements work best in small groups, proving the old adage that higher education is the process of learning more […]
“When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, […]
You may not have noticed, but for a couple of weeks I wrote my posts the day before my usual post days and then scheduled them to be delivered at 4 am Mountain Time on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The result? My readership increased 25%! I think the reason for […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Does Food Matter at a Men’s Breakfast? By Herb Reese My wife and I have attended Crossroads Church in Thornton/Northglenn, Colorado for nineteen years. During that time the quarterly men’s breakfast has been consistently well attended. There are several reasons for this success. For […]
The coronavirus epidemic came home to me personally last week when a friend of mine and his wife were diagnosed with it on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. Taken to two different hospitals an hour and a half apart, his case turned out to be mild, but his […]
There’s a cool app that I’ve been using for a couple of years now. It’s called IFTTT, which stands for “If This Then That.” It links different programs and hardware so that, if something happens in one, then it tells the other to do something else. For example, I can […]