I don’t know about everyone else, but learning to love my neighbors has been a lifelong work in progress for me. It’s been the old two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes it’s even been one step forward and two steps back. If I were to add up all […]
Herb Reese
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The late Dr. John G. Mitchell, a well known and much loved pastor and Bible teacher in the Pacific Northwest, would tease his students when they couldn’t answer a biblical question during his lectures. He’d lean over his lectern, smile, and ask, “Don’t you read your Bible?” Over the past […]
“One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.” Romans 14:5 The early church had a problem: Jewish Christians had been taught for centuries that worship had to occur on Saturday, the Sabbath. Gentile […]
Talk about role models for boys! How about 50 of them? In Stand-Up Guys: 50 Christian Men Who Changed the World, Kate Etue and Caroline Siegrist give fifty examples of Christian men who, motivated by their faith, made dramatic and often world-wide impacts for good.
My team met together to serve our care receiver for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic last Saturday. We maintained our six feet of distance as we ate breakfast burritos out on her back deck. Then we did various outdoor projects for the rest of the time. Our need […]
The Bible says every man has distinct groups of people around him. It describes who these people are and what our relationships with them should look like when we walk in obedience to Jesus Christ. In this post I will first describe these groups and then I’ll look at two […]
Finally, some scientific data on men, church, and men’s ministry! For years men’s ministry leaders in organizations such as Man in the Mirror, Promise Keepers, and Iron Sharpens Iron have tossed around the idea of developing accurate and up to date scientific polling data on men’s ministry. Now BetterMan, founded […]
I have been playing with sand the last few days. I laid a couple of small flagstone patios in our backyard that required sand foundations. The Loews how-to video I watched said I should make the foundations five inches deep, but I think they just wanted to sell me a […]
My church recently came up with a gradual phased in plan for reopening during our COVID-19 pandemic. The first phase consists of meeting in smaller groups outdoors, which is a perfect way for Faithful Hands – our church’s men’s team ministry – to get up and running again. That started […]
Since the love of Christ in us is the goal of our salvation (1 Timothy 1:5; Ephesians 3:14-19; John 13:34, 35, etc.), it behooves every believer to meditate deeply on this subject. I’ve written in the past about the three meanings of the term “the love of Christ.” First, it […]