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.

An Outline for My New Book on Men’s Team Ministry

I’ve been putting it off for years, writing a book on men’s team ministry to the widowed and single parents. I’ll probably put it off for one or two more. But at least now I’ve got an outline in my head. Here it is. Chapter 1: I’ll start with my […]

Even Good Works Can be Corrupted

Never underestimate the ability of the human race to corrupt good things, and that extends to good works themselves. Now that the church has a two thousand year track record, we have plenty of examples of how even Christians can turn good works into bad things. Here are several ways […]

The Role of Good Works in Treating Pornography Addiction

It’s no secret that American men have a problem with porn. Here are the sad statistics. 68% of young men visit a porn site at least once a week 12% of all websites are pornographic 25% of all search engine requests are porn related But things are different for Christian […]

Thanks for a Fantastic November, Now Here’s the Plan

November was the best blogging month I’ve had to date. When I started writing this blog once a month (sometimes) back in January, 2014, my first post was read a whopping 110 times. But last month, my posts were read 6,245 times by over 3,000 people! Thanks for the encouragement […]

How to Meet Pressing Needs Without Becoming Obsessive

For those of us who, like myself, have an obsessive streak in our personalities, talking about meeting pressing needs can be like offering a PB&J sandwich to someone with a peanut allergy. Suddenly we become focused solely on meeting the needs of others and lose our life balance. For myself, […]

An Update on Promise Keepers

Twenty years have passed since the heyday of Promise Keepers. Like myself, hundreds of thousands of men who attended the packed stadium conferences around the country had their lives dramatically altered. In 1997 alone, 1.1 million men filled football stadiums to overflowing singing A Mighty Fortress is Our God and […]