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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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 […]

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The Difference Between Fearing COVID-19 and Being Afraid of COVID-19

Take a close look at the picture that accompanies this post. It’s an image of the temporary green fence in my backyard. I erected it because I have a multi-day project going on replacing my wooden fence and I needed something to contain our dog while I work on it. […]

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Reopening Churches During the COVID-19 Pandemic

My mother-in-law recently moved in with us from Katy, Texas. She is a member of Second Baptist Church in Houston, a church with tens of thousands of members. Every Sunday she avidly watches the church worship service online and yesterday she mentioned to me and my wife that the church […]