If you ever get a chance to drive along Pacific Coast Highway – Highway 1 – do it. It’s one of the most beautiful scenic drives in America. As a child growing up in California, my family made that detour more than once on our way to visit relatives in […]
Herb Reese
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Taco Tuesday was a special night last night for me and Patti. We celebrated her last day at work and entrance into retirement after forty years working as a nurse practitioner with a hot date to Rubio’s in our local mall. Living with someone working in the medical field for […]
My house guest for the week got a frown on his face. “I’m sorry, I don’t shop here. They support…” He had been helping me with a DIY project at home. But when I needed something from Home Depot and invited him to come along without mentioning where I was […]
I know. I know. What is the president of a national men’s ministry doing watching Hallmark Movies? They’re formulaic (boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back), cheaply made (I jokingly call them “Walmart movies” to my wife), and targeted at women (After watching one I get the […]
Any disciple of Jesus knows that he or she must have this one goal in mind: to love others the way he has loved us. We see the importance of this goal in the following scriptures: “A new command I give you, love one another. As I have loved you, […]
Next Christmas, when you set up your nativity scene, you might consider leaving out the wise men. The reason is because the Bible tells us that the wise men didn’t visit Mary and Joseph and Jesus until about two years after he was born, and when they did, they visited […]
We read in Acts 2 that after the church sacrificially cared for the needy in its midst it “enjoyed the favor of all the people.” That popular response to the church’s observable love for each other mirrored Jesus’ prayer in John 17: “That they may be brought to complete unity. […]
I come from a large extended family that includes several missionaries. My sister and one of my brothers have served as missionaries in the Philippines and Guam. Several of my cousins, second cousins, and even third cousins have been/are missionaries. And my Uncle taught hundreds of students at a Bible […]
At the core of New Commandment Men’s Ministries is…well…the new commandment. Jesus states this new commandment no less than three times in what are called his Last Night Discourses, which are found in John chapter 13 through chapter 16. The first statement of this command is John 13:34-35. “A new […]
Peter said, “Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.” But Peter declared, “Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.” And […]