It’s sad to see people begging. It’s a reminder that we live in a fallen world and that there are people with real needs. But when it comes to seeing people begging, I almost always drive by without giving anything. But I also have to admit, I do feel a? […]
Herb Reese
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I know it sounds weird, but these last few weeks I’ve found that meditating on scriptural passages relating to both hell and God’s goodness is edifying. It’s helped me better understand both what hell is like and who God is. Meditating on hell has given me a greater awareness of […]
When I first began New Commandment Men’s Ministries fifteen years ago I had two primary concerns: safety and improper relationships. With regard to safety, the idea of thousands of volunteer men doing handyman projects in hundreds and hundreds of homes conjured up images in my mind of men with broken […]
“We have never been enslaved to anyone.” – Offended Jews when Jesus told them the truth would set them free. “Enslave – to control someone by keeping the person in a bad or difficult situation where the person is not free, or to make a slave (= person legally owned) […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Righteousness 101 By Herb Reese 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) ?I went to bible college for four years, but I […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog What Makes a Man Valuable? By Herb Reese Since men are getting a lot of bad PR these days, maybe it’s time to focus on the positive. So here’s my question: What makes a man valuable? Something to consider when answering this question is, […]
I broke my thumb this summer while mowing my lawn. Yes, it is possible to break your thumb while mowing your lawn. Here’s how I managed to do it. I wasn’t paying attention when I turned the mower around after mowing a strip of my backyard lawn. I thought I […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Hell Lite By Herb Reese Talking and writing about hell in public is a faux pas these days. But at the risk of being a Debbie Downer (or rather, a Dennis Downer) during the holiday season, I’m going to do just that. I was […]
Without God as Lord of our hearts… There?will never be enough laws. There will never be enough security cameras. There will never be enough police officers. There will never be enough body cams. There will never be enough check points. There will never be enough lawyers. There?will never […]
“Human nature never changes.” The professor and I both sighed. We were on a ten minute break at the Broomfield, Colorado, City and County Courthouse.. The lawsuit for wrongful termination against Vail Resorts had been dragging on and on and both of us were getting bored performing our civic duty […]
I was in Nashville earlier this week meeting with men’s ministry leaders from around the country. I almost didn’t go. I’ve had sinus issues for the past ten weeks. But I drug myself to Denver International, plopped my body in a plane seat, survived pressurized acute sinusitis at 30,000 feet, […]
Every time I fly somewhere I always notice a very specific and important moment on my trip: it’s the moment I transfer my weight from the end of the jetway onto the jet by stepping through the door. It’s a very delibrate act of the will, a decision that I […]
Someone once asked me why we don’t just give our training material away for free. Actually, we’ve given our training material away for free to churches outside of North America for several years now. But since New Commandment Men’s Ministries has bills to pay, our 501 (c)3 relies, not only […]
Dear Women: Welcome to the modern world and its secular, godless men. In this new world, men have been taught all their lives that they are the end product of millions of years of evolution: the fittest of the fit. They believe they are mere animals with huge sex drives […]
Maybe it was because my mother wasn’t Norwegian. I don’t know. But the reality was that Grandma Reese never thought Mom was good enough for her beloved firstborn son, Bernhard. No matter what she did, Mom couldn’t cook well enough, keep house well enough, or raise five children well enough […]
?If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters?yes, even their own life?such a person cannot be my disciple.” – Jesus I once quoted the above verse to a girl I was dating. I was just trying to explain my understanding […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Has Your Church Conducted a Pressing Needs Audit? By Herb Reese “Our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.” Titus 3:14 Ignoring the pressing needs of fellow believers is a violation of […]
Photo courtesy Honza Soukup We focus men’s team ministry primarily on the needs of their widowed and single parents in our congregations, but there is a subgoup of people in our churches who often need special attention: single care givers of disabled loved ones. Over the past twenty years, I’ve […]
As I’ve said before, men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is not the be-all and end-all of men’s ministry. There are many different aspects to men’s ministry besides serving the widowed and single parents. If you’re using men’s team ministry to begin a men’s ministry in your […]