“I haven’t done anything with my life!” That’s how I felt when I left church yesterday morning. I was visiting Redeemer Temple in Denver to help promote their men’s retreat. I’m speaking at it later this month. I was looking forward to hearing the pastor preach, but instead, they had […]
Herb Reese
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It’s been 2,000 years since Jesus started the first men’s ministry. Sadly, after three and a half years of hard work, he had only eleven quasi-committed disciples to show for it. But we men’s ministry leaders have learned a lot about men’s ministry in the centuries since then. Here are […]
I’ve been writing from time to time about the amazing young Christian couple that lives next door to us. They’re deeply involved in their church, participate in a home group that they sometimes host, and practice genuine Christian community. Andrew, who is a civil engineer but is changing careers and […]
Evangelicals tend to shy away from the topic of good works. For example, in all of the literature that I have read on men’s discipleship, I’ve seen next to nothing written on the subject of good works. Our tendency to avert our eyes from the idea of good works […]
I knew we were on to something when the Quincy Herald Whig published a picture of a team of men from a local church’s men’s team ministry on its front page. The picture was of the team serving as pallbearers, carrying their care receiver’s coffin out of the church after […]
Thursday, July 1, 1982: my first day as a new pastor. I was twenty-nine years old, with a wife of three years and an infant boy of three months. It was a huge step of faith. Patti and I had sold our home home in Houston, quit our jobs – […]
Here’s a depressing topic all pastors struggle with: churn rate. A church’s churn rate is the percentage of people who leave the church over a given amount of time. If it’s any consolation, Jesus himself had a churn rate. In fact, at one time it was almost 100%. “Yet there […]
I’ve been writing about how God speaks. I initially thought I could get everything into one post, but the subject grew to four posts and I still didn’t cover all the ways God speaks to us. We saw that not only are we living in God’s speech, we are God’s […]
We’ve seen in this brief series on how God speaks that God has and is utilizing many different ways to communicate with humanity. These include God speaking in creation, in our personhood, in our conscience and in the Bible. All of this communication, however, is impossible for humanity to understand […]
[I wrote this post just for fun. I hope you enjoy this true story.] Back in the day when people read newspapers, I decided to pick one up at my local King Supers grocery store to read while drinking my morning coffee. As I walked in the parking lot back […]