After having gone through the process myself, here is my advice for anyone thinking of starting a non-profit men’s ministry.
Herb Reese
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 3 Classic OT Examples of Christ’s Love By Herb Reese Judah, Ruth, and Jonathan each faced another person’s life-threatening need and chose costly, self-giving loyalty. Contrasted with Cain, Orpah, and Saul, their stories anticipate the love of Christ. This study explores how these Old […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog An Intergenerational Orphanage and Retirement Community By Herb Reese What happens when children needing relationships share a community with older adults seeking purpose and connection? Advent Christian Village offers an intergenerational model rooted in care for orphans and retired ministers. This reflection considers how […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Are You Serving a Widow with a Deadbeat Son? By Herb Reese I’ve had it. Up to here. I’m currently working with three widows, each of whom have an adult son who is not pulling his weight when it comes to helping his mother. […]
Serving others may be humiliating, but such humiliation is necessary. Humility is a prerequisite Christian virtue. “No task too small” should our motto.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Last Thing Pastors Need is Another Guilt Trip By Herb Reese Pastors are like taffy, they’re pulled in every direction until they’re completely stretched out. This post gives a solution to one source of ministry overload: congregational care. Read the post. […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Life and Times of Theodorus Eby By Herb Reese While visiting Pennsylvania’s Amish country, the author traces his Mennonite ancestry to Theodorus Eby and reflects on migration, persecution, family history, and religious freedom. The journey also prompts a warning about legalism: outward conformity […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog My Harrowing Experience as a Mediator By Herb Reese Asked to apologize to an angry father after a devastating automobile accident, a pastor discovers the painful limits of human mediation. The experience becomes a picture of sin’s real harm, God’s righteous anger, and the […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Homelessness as Poverty of Relationship By Herb Reese Homelessness often reflects more than lost housing or employment; it can reveal ruptured family and friendship bonds. Through conversations with people living on the street and the work of Miracle Messages, this article considers how rebuilding […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Men are to be Providers and Protectors By Herb Reese Scripture calls men to provide for and protect more than themselves. Beginning with responsibility for family and extended family, Herb Reese follows Paul’s example in Acts 20 to show why Christian men should work […]
Explicit and pervasive, that’s how I describe what the Bible says about widows and orphans.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Precooked Good Works By Herb Reese Ephesians says God has prepared good works beforehand, even acts that appear small or ordinary. Using broken windows, peeling paint, sparrows, fishing, and Ruth’s choice of Boaz’s field, this reflection argues that concrete deeds of love matter deeply […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Moral Foundations and Serving the Widowed and Single Parents By Herb Reese Cultural stability begins with the moral life of the church, this article argues, and churches weaken that foundation when vulnerable members remain neglected. By connecting covenant love, care for widows and single […]
Churches are responsible to act as overseers for the normal social systems that provide for their widows.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Grandpa Reese’s Business Card By Herb Reese An old business card reveals the enduring faith of Sivert Reese, a Norwegian immigrant, farmer, potato wholesaler, church founder, and devoted evangelist. Through family history, photographs, travel, and a gospel message printed on the card, this remembrance […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog You Can Do This! By Herb Reese After years of advocating for widows, widowers, single parents, and fatherless children, the author asks readers to move from concern to sustained action. A sequence of identifying people, praying, consulting church leaders, forming a plan, and serving […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog It is Because of Us By Herb Reese Public disdain for Christianity should prompt honest self-examination within the church, this essay argues. Drawing on Scripture, it identifies leadership scandals, political entanglement, and racial segregation as causes of lost credibility, then calls believers to respond […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Spirit of Cain is Alive and Well in America’s Churches By Herb Reese A missionary widow’s devastating story exposes how quickly churches can retreat after responding to a crisis. This reflection contrasts short-lived kindness with durable care, names calloused disregard as the spirit […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Spirit of Cain in Genesis and in Us By Herb Reese Genesis repeatedly portrays conflict among brothers, revealing what this article calls the spirit of Cain: a murderous, calloused refusal to be one another’s keeper. From Cain and Abel through Joseph’s brothers, the […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Child By Herb Reese Ordering milk in a fashionable restaurant becomes one tool in a lifelong “childhood project.” Through humor, encounters with professors and gang members, Jesus’ teaching, and a quotation from G. Campbell Morgan, […]