My childhood church had a Good Friday tradition of holding a special service at noon on the seven last words of Jesus. Since it was a downtown church, business people from the surrounding offices attended the service. Traditionally called the seven last words of Jesus, they’re actually the seven last […]
Herb Reese
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After having gone through the process myself, here is my advice for anyone thinking of starting a non-profit men’s ministry.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 3 Classic OT Examples of Christ’s Love By Herb Reese They were precursors, forerunners, exemplars. Hundreds of years before Jesus Christ invaded our earth and left us his command to love each other as he has loved us, they actually did it. Three Old […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog An Intergenerational Orphanage and Retirement Community By Herb Reese I’ve often thought that combining a retirement home with an orphanage, foster care facility, preschool, or even an elementary school, would be super cool. The resulting interaction would develop a symbiotic relationship where older adults […]
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 I’m sitting in Corner Coffee Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania – Amish country – watching traffic go by while I write this post. A constant stream of cars and semis whiz along the narrow, two […]
“Helen” had a worried look on her face. “I need you to go to the hospital and talk to someone on behalf of my husband.” Her husband had just broadsided a car and severely injured two young boys in the back seat. Their father, who was driving, became irate and […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Homelessness as Poverty of Relationship By Herb Reese Over the last couple of years I’ve had a number of fascinating conversations with homeless people. One frequent theme I hear is the problem of broken relationships. When I ask the homeless person I’m talking to […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Men are to be Providers and Protectors By Herb Reese It’s a sign of the times that I have to begin a post about an obvious truth – that men are to be providers and protectors – with a disclaimer: No, I am not […]
Explicit and pervasive, that’s how I describe what the Bible says about widows and orphans.
“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” It’s hard for us to believe that the God of the universe concerns himself with the trivia […]
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 Good question, isn’t it? If the foundations of law and order are destroyed, what can we, who like to think we are part of that group called “the righteous,” do? Well, one thing we can do is shore […]
Churches are responsible to act as overseers for the normal social systems that provide for their widows.
I never knew my grandfather. He died years before I was born. But I do know that Sivert Reese took his time getting married. Grandpa Reese was twenty-eight when he married Marit Risse, recently arrived from Opdal, Norway, on his farm near Irene, South Dakota. I’m not sure if it […]
I’ve spent the last sixteen years of my life obeying Isaiah 1:17: “Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the cause of the widow.” I have done – and am doing – exactly what this passage tells us to do. Over the years, many of you have been following […]
“God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Romans 2:24 Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard something I’ve never heard before on mainstream broadcast TV: the name “Jesus” used as a curse word…twice. For those of us who are Christians, this brazen willingness to express public […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Spirit of Cain is Alive and Well in America’s Churches By Herb Reese Churches have no plan for addressing long term needs “A sniper’s bullet shattered our windshield and instantly killed my husband as he drove our family along a remote highway in […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Spirit of Cain in Genesis and in Us By Herb Reese If you ask people what the book of Genesis is about, most would say it’s about creation. After all, the book’s name, “Genesis,” means “beginning.” But Genesis is not about creation, the […]