Jesus said to her, ?Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.? The woman said to Him, ?Sir, give […]
Herb Reese
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We spend a lot of time talking about the importance of training care givers when starting a men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents. Care givers need to be trained in the love of Christ, the importance of good works, why we use teams, what the men’s team […]
There really shouldn’t be a parachurch ministry called New Commandment Men’s Ministries. In fact, it felt very strange incorporating the “New Commandment” as a 501 (c)3 fifteen years ago. And I never have managed to get up the nerve to trade mark our logo. How can I possibly tell people, […]
My wife has a problem. Patti has been a women’s health care nurse practitioner for forty years. That means she’s done over 100,000 exams. And that means she continually gets her left and right mixed up. Why? Because as she faces her patients and talks to them about their left […]
Pastor, the men in your church need you. More specifically, they need you to do something for them. They need you to help them make healthy male friendships. Men who lack friends has become a huge red flag in our culture. Look at these recent titles from leading publications: Boston […]
Men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents is not rocket science. It’s easy to start one in any church. Here are three ways to begin a men’s team ministry in yours. First Way – Steal Our Idea! ? Actually, men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents […]
Nothing is working right this morning. I got locked out of my online ministry banking account. (Hmm, what is my accountant’s mother-in-law’s first name?) And for some reason, I can’t access my ministry’s website with my home wifi, Starbucks’ wifi, or with my cellphone hotspot. I can check my email, […]
I wrote recently about “Hell Lite.” I discussed how God isn’t a sadist, arbitrarily assigning everyone to the same fate in hell. (This is a favorite atheistic straw man argument against the existence of a personal, holy God.) Instead, there are degrees of hell, with some being more tolerable than […]
“Neighbor means neighbor.” That’s been my mantra as I’ve thought and written about what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves. The reason I’ve focused on the concreteness of our neighbors is because we tend to go first to the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). In that […]
?This is an usual post. First of all, I want to give you a heads up about an app that has particular relevance to my current topic: loving our neighbors as ourselves. Secondly, I need your feedback on three ads I’ve developed for Facebook. Those ads are below. The app […]