“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 […]
Herb Reese
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?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 […]
Imagine you’re walking down a path in a city park. It’s Saturday morning and two people are sitting on the bench ahead of you, a man and a woman. The man has his head buried in a newspaper and the woman is looking down at her smart phone. Passing by, […]
As Christians, we’re commanded to love our neighbors “as ourselves.” A high bar indeed. For the past seven years Patti and I have tried to take this command literally and seriously. Here are some things we’ve learned along the way. Respect your neighbors’ privacy. It seems counter intuitive, but the […]
“You say, ?I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.??But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” -Revelation 3:17 Several years ago I spent a week doing mission work in Haiti. Of course, the physical poverty was overwhelming. But […]
To date, I’ve written primarily on the topic of men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents. But as I’ve related in my last three posts, God has also taken me on a forty year journey of teaching me how to love my neighbors. So I want to dedicate […]