“Simple things for simple people.” I like that saying because I’m one of those simple people. I don’t like complexity, chaos and confusion. That’s why I make my bed every day. It’s a simple thing I can do to add order to my life. An unmade bed, with blankets, sheets […]
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One of the jobs I had while working my way through seminary was serving as a valet car parker at private parties in the homes of wealthy people in Dallas. Going to the Turtle Creek mansions of wealthy and important people and parking their guests’ Cadillacs, Rolls Royces and Corvettes […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Presenting Yourself to God: Good Works and Moral Purity By Herb Reese Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James […]
As I write, yet another disaster threatens the United States. Hurricane Michael, a category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds will make landfall in the Florida panhandle in a few hours. With little time to evacuate, residents have been warned to shelter in place. Often forgotten when these natural disasters […]
I’m doing research on best practices for churches that have been in the epicenter of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and forest fires. If you lead or attend a church that has actually been through a natural disaster – not simply helped a church that has experienced […]
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV) “I went to bible college for four years, but I was never taught this!” Todd was a […]
Someone asked me a while back why I don’t write more about specific care receivers in my ministry. There are two reasons. First of all, as a consultant, I’ve helped hundreds of churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents. There are now several thousand care receivers […]
American culture is now unabashedly post Christian. It should be no surprise, then, that one of the first values it jettisoned was Christian sexual ethics.
My dog woke me up in the middle of the night last night because the low battery alarm on one of our smoke detectors kept going off. Patti and I have invested in a number of smoke and CO detectors for our home. Several years ago a CO detector saved […]
“Woe to me!” I cried. ‘I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips. And I live among a people of unclean lips.” – The Prophet Isaiah Isaiah was a man on a mission. Judah was in an advanced state of putrefaction and he, a court prophet, had […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Lucy’s Two “Class A” Miracles and the Physician Who Came to Christ By Herb Reese In my last post, I asked my readers if anyone had experienced a “Class A” miracle, meaning a miracle that broke the laws of nature. In response, Lucy Orebaugh […]
When I think about miracles, I divide them into two groups that I call Class A miracles and Class B miracles. Class A miracles are miracles that break the laws of nature. Jesus raising a dead girl in Mark 5 is an example of a Class A miracle. These types […]
Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they […]
Leverage – “Use (something) to maximum advantage.” “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes A lever is a long instrument, such as a pole or a board, which, when used with a fulcrum, multiplies force. For […]
When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13) [Paul] writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog No, Being a Good Citizen is Not the Same as Being a Good Christian By Herb Reese I attended a men’s conference with several hundred men in attendance one time that resembled a political rally more than it did a spiritual gathering of Christians. […]
The little Book of Ruth is only four chapters long. But it answers an important historical question. In the midst of the social and moral chaos of the period of the Judges (The previous Book of Judges ends with “In those days, Israel had no king. Everyone did as he […]
[Joseph’s ten brothers] said to one another, Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come on us. Reuben replied, Didn’t I tell you not […]
Have you ever noticed that when God wants to accomplish something, he almost always uses teams. It may sound trite, but in a sense, we can think of the Trinity as a team of three. In respect to our salvation we see this team in action when the Father sends […]
This Bible study on good works may be one of the most important Bible studies any Christian will ever do. It will dramatically impact how you treat people in need around you and it will also affect the rewards you will receive in heaven. References to good works and doing […]