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 […]
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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 Churches may face resistance, leadership transitions, limited volunteers, financial concerns, liability questions, or uncertainty about long-term ministry. This post addresses eleven common obstacles to starting a men’s team ministry […]
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 […]
(Note: This post is an outline of a men’s ministry workshop I’ve done at men’s conferences around the country for many years. The title of the workshop is “Mobilize Your Men to Meet the Needs Spectrum in Your Church.” You can listen to it here.) As believers, we are commanded […]
One of the reasons men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents has spread to so many hundreds of churches is because New Commandment Men’s Ministries has made it possible to start the ministry by simply purchasing our DVD and playing it. Over 90% of churches start the ministry […]
It’s hard to believe that ministry to widows, single moms and fatherless children has anything to do with a US presidential election. But it does. Here’s why. There’s nothing like a presidential election cycle to throw one into the doldrums. As I write, we have a week to go before […]
Students of intellectual history know that the reason why science took off in Western Civilization during the 1500’s is because of Christianity’s conviction that God is a rational God who communicates to us in ways that He intends for us to understand. Therefore, if it is true that a rational […]
We tend to emphasize the application of the love of Christ in marital and family relationships but ignore the broader needs of widows, widowers, and single parents.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 11 Formative and Remarkable Men in My Life By Herb Reese When I think about the men God has brought into my life to mentor and influence me, Luke 12:48 often comes to mind: “From everyone who has been given much, much shall be […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Difference Between Mandated and Non-Mandated Church Ministries and Why You Should Care By Herb Reese Here’s a question: what church ministries are specifically commanded in the Word of God? A quick perusal of the New Testament reveals a relatively short list of mandated […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Instilling a Caring Family Legacy: How Christians Motivate and Prepare Their Children to Care for Them in Their Old Age By Herb Reese The U. S. Census Bureau reports that the median net worth in 2015 for an American at retirement was only $43,921 […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog What I Learned from Spending Two Nights in Rescue Missions By Herb Reese “Oh, you’re a student from Dallas Seminary.” The intake officer at Dallas Rescue Mission wasn’t fooled. Al Nucciarone and I were dutifully fulfilling a requirement in the Pastoral Ministries program at […]