Serving others may be humiliating, but such humiliation is necessary. Humility is a prerequisite Christian virtue. “No task too small” should our motto.
Herb Reese
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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 […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Life and Times of Theodorus Eby By Herb Reese 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 […]
“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 […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Homelessness as Poverty of Relationship By Herb Reese 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 […]
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Men are to be Providers and Protectors By Herb Reese 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 […]
Explicit and pervasive, that’s how I describe what the Bible says about widows and orphans.
“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 […]
“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 […]