There really shouldn’t be a parachurch ministry called New Commandment Men’s Ministries. In fact, it felt very strange incorporating the “New Commandment” as a 501 (c)3 fifteen years ago. And I never have managed to get up the nerve to trade mark our logo. How can I possibly tell people, […]
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My wife has a problem. Patti has been a women’s health care nurse practitioner for forty years. That means she’s done over 100,000 exams. And that means she continually gets her left and right mixed up. Why? Because as she faces her patients and talks to them about their left […]
Pastor, the men in your church need you. More specifically, they need you to do something for them. They need you to help them make healthy male friendships. Men who lack friends has become a huge red flag in our culture. Look at these recent titles from leading publications: Boston […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 3 Ways to Start a Men’s Team Ministry to Your Widowed and Single Parents By Herb Reese Men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is not rocket science. It’s easy to start one in any church. Here are three ways to begin […]
Nothing is working right this morning. I got locked out of my online ministry banking account. (Hmm, what is my accountant’s mother-in-law’s first name?) And for some reason, I can’t access my ministry’s website with my home wifi, Starbucks’ wifi, or with my cellphone hotspot. I can check my email, […]
I wrote recently about “Hell Lite.” I discussed how God isn’t a sadist, arbitrarily assigning everyone to the same fate in hell. (This is a favorite atheistic straw man argument against the existence of a personal, holy God.) Instead, there are degrees of hell, with some being more tolerable than […]
“Neighbor means neighbor.” That’s been my mantra as I’ve thought and written about what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves. The reason I’ve focused on the concreteness of our neighbors is because we tend to go first to the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). In that […]
?This is an usual post. First of all, I want to give you a heads up about an app that has particular relevance to my current topic: loving our neighbors as ourselves. Secondly, I need your feedback on three ads I’ve developed for Facebook. Those ads are below. The app […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Saying Goodbye to Hell By Herb Reese Over the past fifteen years of helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I’ve received exactly two derogatory emails. The first was about ten years ago. The writer was irate that I […]
“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” -Ephesians 2:10 (Today’s English Version) Wally was an unusual addition to his team?at his church. Unusual because […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Handling Conflict With Difficult Neighbors By Herb Reese If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. -The Apostle Paul At the moment, Patti and I have great neighbors. But that has not always been the case. […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Slow Down and Smell the Neighbors By Herb Reese What does it really mean to love our neighbors as ourselves?? That’s the question I’ve been asking in this series of blog posts. Here are some practical suggestions to help us do just that. Pray […]
Imagine you’re walking down a path in a city park. It’s Saturday morning and two people are sitting on the bench ahead of you, a man and a woman. The man has his head buried in a newspaper and the woman is looking down at her smart phone. Passing by, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 7 Things to Keep in Mind When Loving Your Neighbors By Herb Reese As Christians, we’re commanded to love our neighbors “as ourselves.” A high bar indeed. For the past seven years Patti and I have tried to take this command literally and seriously. […]
“You say, ?I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.??But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” -Revelation 3:17 Several years ago I spent a week doing mission work in Haiti. Of course, the physical poverty was overwhelming. But […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Difference Between Loving Our Fellow Believers and Loving Our Neighbors By Herb Reese To date, I’ve written primarily on the topic of men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents. But as I’ve related in my last three posts, God has also […]
[This is the third in a series of three posts on Acts 2:44-47 and 4:32-37. You can read the first post here and the second post here.] Dr. Litfin was wrong. I didn’t split my church the one time I finally got up the courage to preach on Acts 2 […]
[This post is the second of a three part series on Acts 2:44-47 and 4:32-37. You can read my first post here.] So what is the church supposed to look like? Fortunately, the Bible gives us two very clear descriptions of what it is to look like. We find them […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog How My Master’s Thesis Changed My Life and Ministry By Herb Reese Seminary wasn’t exactly a joy ride for me. Since I didn’t think a pressure cooker experience like getting a masters from Dallas Theological Seminary was the best way to start a marriage, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog A Brief History of Men’s Team Ministry to the Widowed and Single Parents By Herb Reese Next month marks New Commandment Men’s Ministries’ fifteenth anniversary. It’s hard to believe we’ve been helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents for […]