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 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 […]

How Vladimir Putin is Prostituting the Russian Orthodox Church

It may come as a surprise to some, but after decades of repression under communist rule, the Russian Orthodox Church has been enjoying a resurgence among its countrymen of late. In fact, the proposition can be made that the church has supplanted communist ideology with its own and reestablished itself […]

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The Main Problem I Have with My Ministry

Fortunately, I don’t have many problems with New Commandment Men’s Ministries. Over the last eighteen years, men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents has been well received and implemented in hundreds of churches around the world. I have faithful donors who, even in the middle of one of […]

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Enduring Good

Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and good news is preached to the poor.” Matthew 11:4-5 We all know about Jesus’ miracles, how he went […]

Take the May Men’s Team Ministry Zoom Challenge

This coming Sunday is New Commandment Men’s Ministries’ quarterly board meeting and since all of us board members are practicing social distancing in light of COVID-19, we’ll be meeting online with Zoom. Patti and I have been using Zoom to have group family time with our grown children for a […]

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Deeds Appropriate to Repentance

“Dennis Harland” was an owner of a successful business in Reno, Nevada. Since he had arrived early for my workshop, I struck up a conversation with him. Soon Dennis was eagerly telling me the story of the day he came back to the Lord after years of living a carnal […]

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Easter and the Rest of the Story

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 20:17 …I looked, and there before me was one […]