New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Volkswagen Commercial: Naked Honesty and Resolute Repentance Make a Comeback By Herb Reese We’ve seen a slew of major corporate scandals in recent years. There’s Wells Fargo, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Uber, CBS, Facebook, and Equifx. Even Apple had its “batterygate.” These companies have responded […]
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 8 Walls that Hide Christ’s Love from the World By Herb Reese I grew up in a large commuter church. Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles drew a few thousand Christians together every week from a twenty-five mile radius in all […]
Churches often focus on marriage and family at the expense of the widowed and single parents.
I like simple things. Maybe it’s because I’m a simple person. Or maybe it’s because I don’t like unnecessary work. Dr. Howard Hendricks, my professor at Dallas Seminary, had a mantra he repeated often, “Don’t work harder. Work smarter.” And my childhood pastor, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, had a more […]
I wrote my first post for this blog on January 20, 2014. The title was, “The One Amazing Thing God Wants to Do with Men.” Five years and four hundred posts later, the question came to my mind, if I were to summarize the main points I’ve been trying to […]
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Okay, here’s the deal, Christians: reality is utterly different than the majority of people around us realize. We have come to understand […]
For my first thirteen years as President of New Commandment Men’s Ministries helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I focused on men’s conference ministry. I worked primarily with Iron Sharpens Iron, one of the premier men’s ministries, doing seventy-five minute workshops around the U.S. […]
The men’s ministry at Crossroads is deeply spiritual, extremely healing, highly meaningful and very practical in a way that meets men at all spiritual levels.
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world […]
“Herb, Glenn is missing.” My mother’s phone call induced an immediate tension in my chest. Glenn, my oldest brother by eighteen years, was last seen stepping onto a bus on Crenshaw Boulevard just north of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles and hadn’t been heard from again for days. It was […]
Let’s face it, men serving widows and others with long term needs isn’t exactly a huge draw in men’s ministry…until I can personally get in front of men in a workshop and talk about the love of Christ and how it applies to widows. When I can do that, men […]
David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God. In ancient Israel, God had a fascinating way of informing his people when they were out of […]
In my last post I wrote about how Promise Keepers will be forming teams of men “in communities everywhere” next year at its men’s conference and worldwide simulcast at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Today, I want to mention another new PK emphasis at this upcoming event: intergenerational ministry. Intergenerational ministry […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Promise Keepers’ New Goal: Forming Teams of Men! By Herb Reese Back in the 90’s, Promise Keepers had a huge impact on my life. In fact, like many other of my contemporary men’s ministry leaders, PK is the main reason I’m in full time […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Fear of God Invades Fulsom State Prison By Herb Reese The untimely death a week ago of America’s most famous black director, John Singleton, rekindled my interest in L.A. gangs. Singleton filmed his groundbreaking movie, Boyz in the Hood, about black gangs in […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Is “Que Sera, Sera” Theologically Accurate? By Herb Reese “Que Sera, Sera. Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see. Que Sera, Sera. What will be, will be.” A while back, someone shared with me a personal misfortune that had a […]
“Every good work” or “every good deed” is a technical term in the New Testament. The Greek is “pan ergon agathon” and it occurs nine times. Therefore, it’s an important concept for every Christian to understand. Here are those nine New Testament occurrences. “God is able to make all grace […]
“The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog These Hands of Mine: The Holiness of Hard Work By Herb Reese “You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we […]
I’ve lived in two “bad” neighborhoods. I grew up in a rough inner city black neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. While my family and I, who are white, lived there, our home was set on fire, my sister’s car was stolen out of our garage, my father was robbed and […]