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.

Signed the Contract? Then Let’s Get to Work.

As I’ve stated before, what sets Christian good works apart from all other good works is that Christian good works are done “under contract.” That is, Christians are in a covenant relationship with God and that covenant dictates what kind of good works we do. Our covenant is called the […]

Coming Clean with God

When it comes to sin, all men are introverts. Guilt, shame and fear, as Gordon Dalby so eloquently points out in his book, Healing the Masculine Soul, keep us chained behind our private door. We can’t get out to do the good God wants us to do because, like Cain, […]

All Men’s Ministry Begins at Cain’s Door

I was doing so well. My first post introduced the idea of how?God has amazing things for us men to do. These are good things, jaw-dropping things. My second post talked about how the only thing we have to do to accomplish these good things?is enter into a covenant relationship […]

He Preached on Sunday, Did Porn on Monday: An Interview with Steve Etner

Steve Etner, founder of Pure Man Ministry, is one of the most courageous and transparent speakers I’ve ever heard. When I heard his testimony of how the Lord delivered him from addiction to pornography, I new I needed to get it down for my readers. Anyone struggling with pornography or […]

Why Men are Breaking Bad

America has a problem with its men. Performing the following simple mind experiment will highlight the issue. Ask yourself, which comes to your mind first, men or women, as you read the following: Spouse abusers Pornography addiction Child abandonment Terrorists Rapists Mass murderers Gangs Prisoners Drug cartels Computer hackers If […]

How God Accomplishes His Good In and Through Men

Once we know that the one amazing thing God wants to do with men is “good,” we next need to ask how God accomplishes this good. The answer is simple. God accomplishes his good in and through men by the use of covenants. A covenant is a contractual agreement between […]