“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 […]
Herb Reese
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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 […]
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 […]
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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“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 […]
“But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed. For before certain ones came from James, he ate with the Gentiles; but when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself from them, fearing those who were of the Circumcision.” Galatians […]
I used to say that, as a card-carrying introvert, if I were ever convicted of a crime and sentenced to solitary confinement, they would be doing me a favor. “Finally, time to think!” I’d joke. But no more. After almost three weeks of practicing strict “social distancing,” due to the […]
As many of you already know, Iron Sharpens Iron is an amazing men’s conference ministry that has been around for over twenty years. This year, ISI has over two dozen conferences scheduled. These conferences average around 500 men in attendance who hail from dozens of churches. Iron Sharpens Iron is […]
A special note to my readers who attend a church with a men’s team ministry: In light of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, if your church has a men’s team ministry to its widowed and single parents, then I want to encourage you to cancel your service day for this […]