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.

The Last Thing Pastors Need is One More Guilt Trip

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This post is a follow up on a recent one entitled, “Are Seminaries the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” I was going to title this one, “Are Pastors the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” But most pastors are already overburdened and stressed […]

The Life and Times of Theodorus Eby

I’m sitting in Corner Coffee Shop in Intercourse, Pennsylvania – Amish country – watching traffic go by while I write this post. A constant stream of cars and semis whiz along the narrow, two lane road running through town. Sometimes black buggies pulled by beautiful black or brown horses driven […]

My Harrowing Experience as a Mediator

“Helen” had a worried look on her face. “I need you to go to the hospital and talk to someone on behalf of my husband.” Her husband had just broadsided a car and severely injured two young boys in the back seat. Their father, who was driving, became irate and […]

Homelessness as Poverty of Relationship

Over the last couple of years I’ve had a number of fascinating conversations with homeless people. One frequent theme I hear is the problem of broken relationships. When I ask the homeless person I’m talking to whether or not they have family, they often respond that they do, but that […]

Men are to be Providers and Protectors

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It’s a sign of the times that I have to begin a post about an obvious truth – that men are to be providers and protectors – with a disclaimer: No, I am not saying that only men can be providers and protectors. Women can, and often do, fill that […]

Precooked Good Works

“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” It’s hard for us to believe that the God of the universe concerns himself with the trivia […]

Moral Foundations and Serving the Widowed and Single Parents

“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 Good question, isn’t it? If the foundations of law and order are destroyed, what can we, who like to think we are part of that group called “the righteous,” do? Well, one thing we can do is shore […]