As an Evangelical Christian, I am not engaged in the process of making America Christian, but in the process of making Americans Christian. The first is political coercion. The second is the Great Commission. The first is cultural warfare with flesh and blood. The second is spiritual warfare with Satan […]
Herb Reese
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We live in a love-saturated culture. People everywhere talk about, write about (as I am now), sing about, make movies about, paint about…love. All. The. Time. But what we don’t live in is a Christian-love-saturated culture. Jesus tells us that there is a qualitative difference between Christian love and all […]
Today is the last day of my bedroom imprisonment. My consignment to household oblivion began a week ago Thursday with diarrhea. I didn’t think much of it until the next morning when I awoke with a sore throat and sinus congestion. “Who gets diarrhea with a sore throat and congestion?” […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog My Secret Rendezvous as a Sojourner Christian By Herb Reese By all accounts, Richard and Cynthia Murphy were living the American dream in suburban Montclair, New Jersey. They and their two daughters had been residing for twenty years in a two-story colonial home that […]
Ever since Erasmus decided that divorce could be a good thing, Christians and humanists have been dancing a five hundred year long intellectual, spiritual, and cultural tango. Often it looks more like a tangle than a tango, but for better or for worse, we are stuck with each other. Now […]
As I’ve mentioned in a recent post, Patti and I love watching the home remodeling channel, HGTV. One of our favorite shows is Good Bones, where Mina Starsiak and her mom, Karen Lane, remodel dilapidated homes in the southeastern suburbs of Indianapolis. At the beginning of each show Mina’s husky […]
Restructure your church governance so that your deacons do only what the first deacons did.
“Thy lovingkindness is better than life.” Psalm 66:3 They didn’t know it, but when Tom Cook and Joseph Feeny promised with a handshake nearly three decades ago that if one of them ever won the Powerball lottery they would split the winnings, they were engaging in a thousands year old […]
Pastors, how long has it been since you preached that dreaded sermon on widows?
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Farm By Herb Reese “Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.” Matthew 19:29 A couple of […]
I love daily naps and long walks. No, I am not a sloth. I get up around 5 am, often earlier. But while I work hard, naps and walks have been a part of my regular schedule for thirty years. Besides the obvious health benefits, the reasons I have napped […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Heaven’s Version of Fixer Upper By Herb Reese “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” John 14:3 One of Satan’s strategies with us […]
I don’t know about everyone else, but learning to love my neighbors has been a lifelong work in progress for me. It’s been the old two steps forward and one step back. Sometimes it’s even been one step forward and two steps back. If I were to add up all […]
The late Dr. John G. Mitchell, a well known and much loved pastor and Bible teacher in the Pacific Northwest, would tease his students when they couldn’t answer a biblical question during his lectures. He’d lean over his lectern, smile, and ask, “Don’t you read your Bible?” Over the past […]
“One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.” Romans 14:5 The early church had a problem: Jewish Christians had been taught for centuries that worship had to occur on Saturday, the Sabbath. Gentile […]
Talk about role models for boys! How about 50 of them? In Stand-Up Guys: 50 Christian Men Who Changed the World, Kate Etue and Caroline Siegrist give fifty examples of Christian men who, motivated by their faith, made dramatic and often world-wide impacts for good.
My team met together to serve our care receiver for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic last Saturday. We maintained our six feet of distance as we ate breakfast burritos out on her back deck. Then we did various outdoor projects for the rest of the time. Our need […]
The Bible says every man has distinct groups of people around him. It describes who these people are and what our relationships with them should look like when we walk in obedience to Jesus Christ. In this post I will first describe these groups and then I’ll look at two […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Review of 5 Essentials to Engage Today’s Men: Conversations Every Church Should Have about How Men Connect with Their Purpose, with Others, and with Their Faith By Herb Reese Finally, some scientific data on men, church, and men’s ministry! For years men’s ministry leaders […]
I have been playing with sand the last few days. I laid a couple of small flagstone patios in our backyard that required sand foundations. The Loews how-to video I watched said I should make the foundations five inches deep, but I think they just wanted to sell me a […]