New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Orthopraxy Has Nothing to do With Your Teeth By Herb Reese After my interview with Jim Daley on Focus on the Family in 2011, I went out to lunch with the producer. He mentioned the hundreds of requests for interviews FOTF gets from a […]
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Men’s health and ministry to widows and single moms seem to be two disparate fields. But they aren’t at all. In fact, they’re intimately intertwined.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog So Your Wife Makes More than You Do? Get Over It. By Herb Reese I’ve been in ministry almost all of my professional life. And my wife has been a nurse practitioner all of hers. Early on in our marriage I realized that I […]
I’ve been putting it off for years, writing a book on men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents. I’ll probably put it off for one or two more. But at least now I’ve got an outline in my head. Here it is. Chapter 1: I’ll start with my […]
Never underestimate the ability of the human race to corrupt good things, and that extends to good works themselves. Now that the church has a two thousand year track record, we have plenty of examples of how even Christians can turn good works into bad things. Here are several ways […]
Men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents provides exceptional opportunities for men to share the gospel.
Everyone does kind gestures. But not everyone loves the way Christ does. In fact, the love of Christ is unique to Christians. Jesus himself said so.
It’s no secret that American men have a problem with porn. Here are the sad statistics. 68% of young men visit a porn site at least once a week 12% of all websites are pornographic 25% of all search engine requests are porn related But things are different for Christian […]
One of my goals in life is to see the day when men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents becomes standard practice in every church in America, if not the world. Like Sunday School, bulletins and offering plates, men’s team ministry, or something like it, would be just […]
November was the best blogging month I’ve had to date. When I started writing this blog once a month (sometimes) back in January, 2014, my first post was read a whopping 110 times. But last month, my posts were read 6,245 times by over 3,000 people! Thanks for the encouragement […]
For those of us who, like myself, have an obsessive streak in our personalities, talking about meeting pressing needs can be like offering a PB&J sandwich to someone with a peanut allergy. Suddenly we become focused solely on meeting the needs of others and lose our life balance. For myself, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog An Update on Promise Keepers By Herb Reese Twenty years have passed since the heyday of Promise Keepers. Like myself, hundreds of thousands of men who attended the packed stadium conferences around the country had their lives dramatically altered. In 1997 alone, 1.1 million […]
Here’s the picture: you’re a single mom or widow (or a single dad or widower or someone who is disabled) and you’d absolutely love for your church to form a team for you to help you out around your home once a month for two hours. In fact, you desperately […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Hesed Love is What We’re Attempting to Do With Men’s Team Ministry By Herb Reese Today’s Christians often focus on the New Testament concept of agape love, or unconditional love, especially as it is expressed in 1 Corinthians 13. But we often forget another […]
“Why don’t you just write a book?” That was my wife’s response when I first started talking about starting New Commandment Men’s Ministries. “Because I don’t want to write about what I just think is a great idea,” I responded. “I want to prove the value of men’s team ministry […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog How God Led Me into Ministry to the Widowed and Single Parents By Herb Reese [Note: This is a very long post. Sorry. For the two of you who actually read it all the way through, I hope you find it inspiring.] I got to […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 11 Obstacles to Starting a Men’s Team Ministry and How to Overcome Them By Herb Reese Believers sometimes get excited about a particular parachurch ministry but then run into a brick wall when they try to get their church to start it. Men’s team […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Is it Really God’s Will for Every Church to be able to say, “There is No Needy Person Among Us”? By Herb Reese In Acts, Luke records the early church as having “no need person among them.” But is that a normative goal for […]
Here are 9 qualities of an effective men’s ministry for you to use to evaluate the men’s ministry is at your church.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 10 Ways to Make Widows, Widowers and Single Parents Feel Special By Herb Reese According to Scripture, God has a deep love for widows, widowers and single parents. Therefore, Christians should too. Here are 10 ways to make widows, widowers and single parents feel […]