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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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 […]

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On Sale Now! The New and Improved If God Wills Planner

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ – yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for […]

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Christian Landlords and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Today is April 1st. And yes, it’s April Fools Day. But the issue I’m writing about is no joke because today is also the first time rent is due for millions of workers who have suddenly and dramatically lost their job through no fault of their own. The COVID-19 pandemic […]

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Are You a Christian Landlord During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Today is April 1st. And yes, it’s April Fools Day. But the issue I’m writing about is no joke because today is also the first time rent is due for millions of workers who have suddenly and dramatically lost their job through no fault of their own. The COVID-19 pandemic […]

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Evangelist Hans Romsdalen Goes to Oppdal, Norway

I recently learned something fascinating about my father’s relatives: The reason they immigrated to America from Norway was because they were fleeing religious persecution. Oppdal, Norway, located about two hundred miles north of Oslo, is a small, thriving country town complete with its own mall, community theater…and ski resort. Oppdal […]

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The Man You Think You Are, The Man God Knows You Are

“When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, ‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.’” Judges 6:12 Wham! Wham! Wham! Hot, sweaty, dirty, smelly Gideon hated threshing wheat in the bottom of his wine press. It was the ultimate humiliation. But threshing wheat in the bottom of […]