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.

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 […]

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3 Years into Online Ministry: What I’ve Learned

The recent COVID-19 lockdown across the country has given me time to reflect on how glad I am that the Lord led me to transition New Commandment Men’s Ministries to an online ministry. Had I not done so, the ministry of training men in men’s conference workshops to do men’s […]

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On Praying the Attributes of God

I recently read a published devotional by a well known Christian leader who is also someone I know personally. In it he describes how difficult it is sometimes for him to pray. “I must admit that I have found prayer strenuous, boring, and confusing at times.” Like my friend, all […]