New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Preparing Your Teams for Their First Service Day By Herb Reese It’s critical that your men’s team ministry’s first service day goes well so that you can begin to establish healthy patterns that will last for years. At the same time, your first service […]
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Busy Layman’s Guide to Leading a Men’s Team Ministry Devotional Hour By Herb Reese The men’s team ministry model that we present to churches asks men to donate three hours of time one Saturday morning a month. Those three hours are divided into […]
I received some great responses to my question, “Has Anyone Reading This Ever Seen an Angel?” Thanks, everyone, for sharing your stories. Here they are for the rest of us to read, with a little editing for brevity and clarity. ******** I had gone through a brutal battle with the […]
I heard a sermon on angels a few weeks ago. It brought back memories of a sermon I once preached on angels. Right in the middle of it I stopped and spontaneously asked if anyone in the church had ever seen an angel. Out of a congregation of a couple […]
All pastors know the importance of maintaining a close walk with the Lord, getting enough rest, eating right and having a good work/life balance. But here are some very concrete things I wish I’d known when I started my first pastorate. If you’re a young pastor, I hope you find […]
I’m on vacation in Southern California. Actually, it’s a workation for both myself and my wife. Yesterday I met with some men from a church in Rancho Cucamonga, a bedroom community forty miles east of Los Angeles. Their church has had a men’s team ministry to their widowed and single […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog An Alternative View of Bi-vocational Pastorates By Herb Reese Meet Paul, the first bi-vocational pastor The first bi-vocational pastor in the history of the church was the Apostle Paul. Famous for his “tent trade,” Paul supported himself with his skill at making tents while […]
Watching the news on Hurricane Harvey this week brings back some bad memories. As a pastor, I’ve been through a hurricane in the Houston area: Hurricane Alecia in 1983, a category 3 storm that caused almost 2 billion in damage. And while it didn’t come close to Hurricane Harvey in […]
The congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hitchcock, Texas, built their Kingdom Hall down the street from my first pastorate in one day. Pretty impressive. But since our family lived in the parsonage next to the church, we subsequently became the target of numerous visits from fervent JWs. That experience gave […]
Recently, I received the following email from someone I’ve known for several years. It’s a cry of desperation because her church is not responding to her family”s deep need. I’ve contacted the church on their behalf, but to no avail. Here’s the email: My husband has been hospitalized for several […]
Pastors have many irons in the fire. A pastor is often on call 24/7. His typical workweek is at least 55 hours long and involves the following: Church meetings Staff meetings Board meetings Counseling sessions Long term planning Lunch meetings Sermon preparation Conflict resolution Crisis intervention Weddings and funerals Hospital […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Has Isaiah 1:18 Ever Actually Happened? By Herb Reese “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” Isaiah […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Meet Bored Ward and Fulfilled Phil By Herb Reese Meet Bored Ward Bored Ward is fifty-five years old and has been married thirty years to his wonderful wife, Karen, with whom he has raised two children. With both of those children grown and gone, […]
Tomorrow (August 15, 2017) marks the first anniversary of my live, full-time, online ministry. Doing ministry on the Internet was a radical change for me. I had many questions floating around in my brain when I started. Could I get my message across? Would anyone listen? Would anyone do anything […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog An Easy Way to Form Teams When Starting Your Men’s Team Ministry By Herb Reese The goal of a men’s team ministry orientation is to recruit teams of men. So the process of forming teams at the end of your orientation is critical. Don’t […]
The problem with Protestant, non-liturgical churches is they tend to be personality driven. The reason is because Protestant churches elevate the sermon to a central focus of worship. And if the sermon is critical to the worship service, then the ability of the pastor to preach the sermon well becomes […]
t for me and my cousins, Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell will always be remembered as “Uncle John and Auntie Mary.” Because they had no children of their own, Uncle John and Auntie Mary treated me, my siblings and my cousins like their own sons and daughters.
This month I’m working on a new section of my Meeting to Meet Needs membership site. The section is called “Case Studies.” I’m in the process of compiling a list of churches with men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents that I’d like to review on the site […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog No Self Respecting Man Would Sit at a Turquoise Picnic Table By Herb Reese Kristin Schell’s sojourn as an exchange student in France, with their long, boisterous three-times-a-day family meals, instilled a hunger in her heart to recreate the same kind of experience in […]
Someone from Illinois recently passed on this question to me that he received about bringing sons on service days: “I just got a question from a dad who would like his 14 and 10 year olds to be on a team. What is the earliest age recommended or approved to […]