Herb Reese

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Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

Intergenerational Ministry: Another New Promise Keepers Emphasis

In my last post I wrote about how Promise Keepers will be forming teams of men “in communities everywhere” next year at its men’s conference and worldwide simulcast at AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Today, I want to mention another new PK emphasis at this upcoming event: intergenerational ministry. Intergenerational ministry […]

Promise Keepers’ New Goal: Forming Teams of Men!

Back in the 90’s, Promise Keepers had a huge impact on my life. In fact, like many other of my contemporary men’s ministry leaders, PK is the main reason I’m in full time men’s ministry today. During that decade, I took men from my church to five PK stadium events […]

The Fear of God Invades Fulsom State Prison

The untimely death a week ago of America’s most famous black director, John Singleton, rekindled my interest in L.A. gangs. Singleton filmed his groundbreaking movie, Boyz in the Hood, about black gangs in Los Angeles during the early 90s, five blocks from where I grew up. When I watched the […]

Is “Que Sera, Sera” Theologically Accurate?

“Que Sera, Sera. Whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see. Que Sera, Sera. What will be, will be.” A while back, someone shared with me a personal misfortune that had a slightly humorous result. “Oh well, que sera, sera.” I blurted out. Later, I wondered if […]

How to Know When We are Doing “Every Good Work”

“Every good work” or “every good deed” is a technical term in the New Testament. The Greek is “pan ergon agathon” and it occurs nine times. Therefore, it’s an important concept for every Christian to understand. Here are those nine New Testament occurrences. “God is able to make all grace […]

Sitting in My Spaceship Out On the Front Lawn

“The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some […]

These Hands of Mine: The Holiness of Hard Work

“You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give […]

How to Develop Good Men in Bad Neighborhoods

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I’ve lived in two “bad” neighborhoods. I grew up in a rough inner city black neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles. While my family and I, who are white, lived there, our home was set on fire, my sister’s car was stolen out of our garage, my father was robbed and […]

Good Friday and Ministry to Widows and Single Moms

My childhood church had a Good Friday tradition of holding a special service at noon on the seven last words of Jesus. Since it was a downtown church, business people from the surrounding offices attended the service. Traditionally called the seven last words of Jesus, they’re actually the seven last […]