As I write, yet another disaster threatens the United States. Hurricane Michael, a category 4 hurricane with 140 mph winds will make landfall in the Florida panhandle in a few hours. With little time to evacuate, residents have been warned to shelter in place. Often forgotten when these natural disasters […]
Herb Reese
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I’m doing research on best practices for churches that have been in the epicenter of natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and forest fires. If you lead or attend a church that has actually been through a natural disaster – not simply helped a church that has experienced […]
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV) “I went to bible college for four years, but I was never taught this!” Todd was a […]
Someone asked me a while back why I don’t write more about specific care receivers in my ministry. There are two reasons. First of all, as a consultant, I’ve helped hundreds of churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents. There are now several thousand care receivers […]
American culture is now unabashedly post Christian. It should be no surprise, then, that one of the first values it jettisoned was Christian sexual ethics.
My dog woke me up in the middle of the night last night because the low battery alarm on one of our smoke detectors kept going off. Patti and I have invested in a number of smoke and CO detectors for our home. Several years ago a CO detector saved […]
“Woe to me!” I cried. ‘I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips. And I live among a people of unclean lips.” – The Prophet Isaiah Isaiah was a man on a mission. Judah was in an advanced state of putrefaction and he, a court prophet, had […]
In my last post, I asked my readers if anyone had experienced a “Class A” miracle, meaning a miracle that broke the laws of nature. In response, Lucy Orebaugh left a comment describing two! I have experienced 2 class A miracles. First when I was just 15 my brother was […]
When I think about miracles, I divide them into two groups that I call Class A miracles and Class B miracles. Class A miracles are miracles that break the laws of nature. Jesus raising a dead girl in Mark 5 is an example of a Class A miracle. These types […]
Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow. Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they […]