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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There is More to Christian Responsibility than God, Family and Work

I recently read an article on the importance of setting priorities as Christians. It listed three responsibilities as the main priorities every Christian should have: our responsibilities to God, family, and work, in that order. It was the same classic list I’ve seen many times before and every time I […]

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The Power of Men’s Team Ministry Testimonies in this Dark Hour

I enjoyed so much our blog subscriber Zoom meeting this past Saturday evening. Three men from three churches in different parts of the country joined the meeting to learn from other team members what men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is like. The meeting lasted almost an […]

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Maintaining Boundaries in Your Men’s Team Ministry

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.” Matthew 10:5-6 Several […]

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My Lousy Christian Neighbor

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 9:18 “I’m packing heat. So give me a call if anything happens.” My new Christian vigilante neighbor said good bye, turned and walked back to his house. It was several years ago and our family had just moved into a new home. […]

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The Brotherhood: How Jesus Started a New Human Race

“Go, tell my brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see me.” Matthew 28:9-10 “For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.” Romans 8:29 “We know that when Christ appears, we […]

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Meet Our 18 Year Old Team and Our Care Receiver

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do […]