New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog How to Double Your Men’s Ministry in Just Two Months…and Keep Your Men Coming Back for Years! By Herb Reese I have two questions for you. First, what percent of all the adult men in your church are involved in your church’s men’s ministry? […]
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“Lisa,” a member of my church in Illinois, had moved from Bolivia to the US, married, and started a family. When she and her husband bought their first home, I asked her how she liked it. “It’s okay,” she said, with a disappointed look on her face. “But back in […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Why Every Pastor Must Say, “Follow My Example” By Herb Reese “Here, let me show you how to do that.” Depending on the circumstances, that statement can be taken as either arrogant and demeaning, as when a stranger offers unsolicited advice when you find […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Volkswagen Commercial: Naked Honesty and Resolute Repentance Make a Comeback By Herb Reese We’ve seen a slew of major corporate scandals in recent years. There’s Wells Fargo, Enron, Lehman Brothers, Uber, CBS, Facebook, and Equifx. Even Apple had its “batterygate.” These companies have responded […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 8 Walls that Hide Christ’s Love from the World By Herb Reese I grew up in a large commuter church. Church of the Open Door in downtown Los Angeles drew a few thousand Christians together every week from a twenty-five mile radius in all […]
Churches often focus on marriage and family at the expense of the widowed and single parents.
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. […]