Churches often focus on marriage and family at the expense of the widowed and single parents.
Herb Reese
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I like simple things. Maybe it’s because I’m a simple person. Or maybe it’s because I don’t like unnecessary work. Dr. Howard Hendricks, my professor at Dallas Seminary, had a mantra he repeated often, “Don’t work harder. Work smarter.” And my childhood pastor, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, had a more […]
I wrote my first post for this blog on January 20, 2014. The title was, “The One Amazing Thing God Wants to Do with Men.” Five years and four hundred posts later, the question came to my mind, if I were to summarize the main points I’ve been trying to […]
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Okay, here’s the deal, Christians: reality is utterly different than the majority of people around us realize. We have come to understand […]
For my first thirteen years as President of New Commandment Men’s Ministries helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I focused on men’s conference ministry. I worked primarily with Iron Sharpens Iron, one of the premier men’s ministries, doing seventy-five minute workshops around the U.S. […]
The men’s ministry at Crossroads is deeply spiritual, extremely healing, highly meaningful and very practical in a way that meets men at all spiritual levels.
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world […]
“Herb, Glenn is missing.” My mother’s phone call induced an immediate tension in my chest. Glenn, my oldest brother by eighteen years, was last seen stepping onto a bus on Crenshaw Boulevard just north of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles and hadn’t been heard from again for days. It was […]
Let’s face it, men serving widows and others with long term needs isn’t exactly a huge draw in men’s ministry…until I can personally get in front of men in a workshop and talk about the love of Christ and how it applies to widows. When I can do that, men […]
David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God. In ancient Israel, God had a fascinating way of informing his people when they were out of […]