New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 10 Reasons Why Men Work so Well Together on Teams By Herb Reese A frayed rope is useless. But “a chord of three strands is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Spiritually frayed men are useless too. And our churches are full of them. Maybe […]
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New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog My Favorite Men’s Ministry Passage By Herb Reese Sometimes I am asked the question, “What biblical passage best defines men’s ministry?” One biblical passage in particular describes a Christian man’s complete journey from salvation to maturity There are many passages I could give in […]
On Thursday evening, March 3rd, I?ll be doing a pastors? seminar in a very special place: Lighthouse Baptist Church in Quincy, Illinois. It was during my pastorate at Lighthouse twenty years ago (Has it really been that long?!) that the Lord led me to form our men into teams of […]
The ominous big red sign on the front door of the house for sale grabbed our attention: “DANGER. THIS BUILDING IS UNSAFE FOR HUMAN OCCUPANCY. UNSAFE TO OCCUPY.” Patti and I normally wouldn’t have bothered to go in, but our realtor was getting testy and we were desperate. “Did you […]
It’s Christmastime. It’s the season when we remember the birth of our Savior. It’s also the time when we naturally think of Jesus’ mother, Mary. To help us celebrate Christmas appropriately as men, I have a hypothetical question: If Mary attended your church, how would you treat her? Perhaps one […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog 7 Reasons Why Evangelicals Get Good Works Wrong By Herb Reese The topic of good works appears again and again throughout the New Testament and in the writings of the early church fathers. The first and second century church practiced good works as a […]
As I teach on men’s team ministry around the country, I have a habit of pointing out two facts from the New Testament: First, the New Testament contains only three commands to witness (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 2 Timothy 4:5). Second, the New Testament contains over forty commands to love […]
In his radical call to follow him, believe in him and love like him at the expense of family, Jesus was deconstructing the family.
Devoid of any transcendent values to halt the process, our culture in general, and men in particular, are rapidly descending into the sewer.
I‘ve discussed the seven ways Christian men go about meeting pressing needs in their five circles of responsibility (Those circles of responsibility being themselves, their family, their extended family, their church and their neighbor). The means by which Christian men meet pressing needs are: they develop loving relationships, they work […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Meeting the Pressing Needs in a Christian Man’s Five Circles of Responsibility By Herb Reese Now that we’ve identified the five circles of a Christian man’s responsibility to guarantee the well-being of those in need around him–himself, his family, his extended family, his church and […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog A Christian Man’s Five Circles of Responsibility…and Blessing By Herb Reese Circles of Responsibility Okay, so now we know that the task of a Christian’s man’s good work is to guarantee the wellbeing of those around him. So the question is, who are these […]
In my last post, I developed the topic of what a Christian man’s good work is, namely, that of guaranteeing the wellbeing of those in need around him. We saw that there are excellent examples throughout the Word of God of men taking responsibility for others, such as Abraham, Judah, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog A Christian Man’s Good Work: Guarantee the Wellbeing of Those In Need Around Him By Herb Reese By way of review, we Christians are not at liberty to decide what good works we are going to do. The reason is because we are under […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Who Benefits from a Man’s Good Works? By Herb Reese Now that we men are in a proper relationship with God through faith in his son, Jesus Christ, it’s time to get to work and do the amazing good God has called us to […]
As I’ve stated before, what sets Christian good works apart from all other good works is that Christian good works are done “under contract.” That is, Christians are in a covenant relationship with God and that covenant dictates what kind of good works we do. Our covenant is called the […]
The problem, however, is that this dream we men have has a dark side: the reality that all of us fall short of our ideal hero role.
When it comes to sin, all men are introverts. Guilt, shame and fear, as Gordon Dalby so eloquently points out in his book, Healing the Masculine Soul, keep us chained behind our private door. We can’t get out to do the good God wants us to do because, like Cain, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog All Men’s Ministry Begins at Cain’s Door By Herb Reese I was doing so well. My first post introduced the idea of how?God has amazing things for us men to do. These are good things, jaw-dropping things. My second post talked about how the […]
Steve Etner, founder of Pure Man Ministry, is one of the most courageous and transparent speakers I’ve ever heard. When I heard his testimony of how the Lord delivered him from addiction to pornography, I new I needed to get it down for my readers. Anyone struggling with pornography or […]