Herb Reese

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Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.
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On Intelligent, Well-Educated, and Wise Christians

“His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort.” 2 Peter 3:16 (Peter, writing about Paul’s epistles) I’ve been reading and meditating on Romans 7 and 8 lately and the thought struck me how intricate and closely reasoned Paul’s argument is. Not to […]

My Credo

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As an Evangelical Christian, I am not engaged in the process of making America Christian, but in the process of making Americans Christian. The first is political coercion. The second is the Great Commission. The first is cultural warfare with flesh and blood. The second is spiritual warfare with Satan […]

Christ’s Love as a Guarantee of Well-Being

We live in a love-saturated culture. People everywhere talk about, write about (as I am now), sing about, make movies about, paint about…love. All. The. Time. But what we don’t live in is a Christian-love-saturated culture. Jesus tells us that there is a qualitative difference between Christian love and all […]

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I’m Finally Getting Out of My Bedroom Cell

Today is the last day of my bedroom imprisonment. My consignment to household oblivion began a week ago Thursday with diarrhea. I didn’t think much of it until the next morning when I awoke with a sore throat and sinus congestion. “Who gets diarrhea with a sore throat and congestion?” […]

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My Secret Rendezvous as a Sojourner Christian

By all accounts, Richard and Cynthia Murphy were living the American dream in suburban Montclair, New Jersey. They and their two daughters had been residing for twenty years in a two-story colonial home that backed up to a wildlife preserve. According to their neighbors, Richard and Cynthia lived nondescript, ordinary […]

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Why Christians Need Humanists (And Why Humanists Need Christians)

Ever since Erasmus decided that divorce could be a good thing, Christians and humanists have been dancing a five hundred year long intellectual, spiritual, and cultural tango. Often it looks more like a tangle than a tango, but for better or for worse, we are stuck with each other. Now […]

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In Men’s Ministry, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

As I’ve mentioned in a recent post, Patti and I love watching the home remodeling channel, HGTV. One of our favorite shows is Good Bones, where Mina Starsiak and her mom, Karen Lane, remodel dilapidated homes in the southeastern suburbs of Indianapolis. At the beginning of each show Mina’s husky […]

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11 Million Dollars Worth of Hesed Love

“Thy lovingkindness is better than life.” Psalm 66:3 They didn’t know it, but when Tom Cook and Joseph Feeny promised with a handshake nearly three decades ago that if one of them ever won the Powerball lottery they would split the winnings, they were engaging in a thousands year old […]