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 […]
Herb Reese
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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 […]
Over the past fifteen years of helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I’ve received exactly two derogatory emails. The first was about ten years ago. The writer was irate that I would have the nerve to charge for my training material. The second was […]
“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” -Ephesians 2:10 (Today’s English Version) Wally was an unusual addition to his team?at his church. Unusual because […]
If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. -The Apostle Paul At the moment, Patti and I have great neighbors. But that has not always been the case. All of us from time to time have had difficult neighbors who irritated us […]
What does it really mean to love our neighbors as ourselves?? That’s the question I’ve been asking in this series of blog posts. Here are some practical suggestions to help us do just that. Pray for yourself. God wants to do a work in our neighborhoods. But first he wants […]