“The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.” Proverbs 4:19 One hour and thirty-six minutes. That’s my record time hiking the steep trail in Shadow Canyon to South Boulder Peak and back. I don’t make that climb anymore. My bad knees […]
Herb Reese
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Unless you’re one of the rare Christians who have grown up in their current church, we’ve all gone through the sometimes difficult process of searching for a new church. Checking off our list of requirements is a familiar drill: Is this church sound in doctrine? Do I like the pastor’s […]
The Apex Center, one of Arvada, Colorado’s rec centers, has a fantastic indoor water park. It’s comprised of a lap pool, a community hot tub, and a huge children’s pool that’s filled with all kinds of colorful water-propelled Rube Goldberg-like mechanics. One of those contraptions, which I enjoy watching when […]
Titus 3:14 teaches that a key goal of doing good works is addressing pressing needs in one’s church. The question then becomes, what are pressing needs?
I’ve been promoting a post on Facebook lately that has received a number of snarky comments from the general public about so-called “rich pastors.” Yes, there are some prominent wealthy pastors in the U.S. But they comprise a very small fraction of ministers. Considering their educational level, experience, responsibilities, and […]
Often when I speak and write about the responsibility churches have toward people in their congregations with pressing needs, I get responses like the one I received a few days ago: Herb, don’t forget that many small churches have difficulty keeping the doors open and the pastor fed. Without wisdom […]
I like to kid my evolutionist friends that evolution can’t be true because those who believe in it have fewer children than those who don’t, making belief in evolution “less adaptive” for our species (in evolution-speak) than not believing in it. I don’t know if evolutionists having fewer children is […]
I’ve been saying for many years that America’s churches have abdicated to the federal government their responsibility to provide for the needs of their widows, widowers, and others. Biblically speaking, the church has the responsibility to guarantee the well-being of those in its midst with long term pressing needs. (See, […]
I was chatting with a neighbor about her two sons a few days ago when she commented, “Young men seem to have lost their way these days.” I’m not going to quote the statistics on what has become a modern day truism that men just aren’t what men used to […]
“Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. […]