I confess. From time to time I feel a tinge of guilt for reading the news before I start writing my blog posts. Why immerse myself in the latest updates on intransigent wars, the dalliances of public figures, the social slop spread all over social media, mass shootings, who cursed […]
Herb Reese
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I have a ministry montra that I repeat often: “It is God’s will for every church to be able to say, ‘There is not a needy person among us.’” This morning, someone asked me on Facebook, “Won’t the Poor and Needy Always Be With Us?” The short answer is, yes, […]
You’ve been caring for your loved one, possibly in your home or their home, and you’ve finally realized their needs have surpassed your ability to meet them. You’re exhausted and desperate. But before you go out and enlist the services of a nursing home you come to regret, here are […]
I have a prayer request, or rather, an anti-prayer request. Would you please stop praying about whether your church should serve its widowed and single parents? “But we haven’t started praying about whether we should serve these people,” you say. True. That’s probably because most churches completely ignore their widowed […]
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced […]
Pastors should encourage charity giving, both to the church benevolence fund, and also directly to individual widows and single moms.
Many years ago I was rummaging through my dad’s garage and came across a box of books. In it were the four famous volumes pictured here: The Fundamentals, published in 1917 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and edited by R. A. Torrey, first pastor of my home church, […]
In June of 2013, the Black Forest Fire burned 14,280 acres north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It killed two people and destroyed 509 homes. But because of the work of Oleta Goodrich’s team of men, it didn’t burn her home or the homes of six of her neighbors. Here’s her […]
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 his neighbors — the next question is how one goes about fulfilling this responsibility without being completely overwhelmed. […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries focuses on a very specific area of need: long term needs within the local church. Most often, people with this type of need are the widowed and single parents. But taking the biblical mandate to meet pressing needs as a whole, long term needs within the […]