Herb Reese

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Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

A Men’s Ministry Your Community Can’t Ignore

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 […]

A Suggestion for Young Pastors

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 – […]

6 Reasons Why People Leave Their Church

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 […]

How Satan Speaks

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 […]

How God Speaks – Part IV

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 […]

The Lady in the Black Ford Pickup

[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 […]

Should We Use Entire Families as Teams in Our Men’s Team Ministries?

Yesterday, a pastor on the west coast with a successful, years-long men’s team ministry called me with a question. He said three families in his church had asked if they could serve a widow or single parent as individual families. He asked me if I knew of any churches that […]

How God Speaks – Part III

In my first two posts on the topic of how God speaks, I covered how God speaks in creation, in our personhood, in our conscience and in the Bible. Today I want to look at the most important way God speaks. God Speaks in His Son, Jesus Christ The Bible […]

How God Speaks – Part II

This post is the second in a series on “How God Speaks.” In my first post I covered how God speaks in creation and in our personhood. I now discuss two more major ways God speaks. God Speaks in Our Conscience Our conscience is simply the awareness that God is […]