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 […]
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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 […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog Some Suggestions for Restarting Your Men’s Team Ministry By Herb Reese My church recently came up with a gradual phased in plan for reopening during our COVID-19 pandemic. The first phase consists of meeting in smaller groups outdoors, which is a perfect way for […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Love of Christ is Not for Sissies By Herb Reese Since the love of Christ in us is the goal of our salvation (1 Timothy 1:5; Ephesians 3:14-19; John 13:34, 35, etc.), it behooves every believer to meditate deeply on this subject. I’ve […]
Have you noticed? I rarely ask my readers to donate to New Commandment Men’s Ministries. But I am now. New Commandment is facing a serious financial shortage and needs your help. If you have been blessed by this ministry and have a burden for men and for widows, widowers, single […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog There is More to Christian Responsibility than God, Family and Work By Herb Reese I recently read an article on the importance of setting priorities as Christians. It listed three responsibilities as the main priorities every Christian should have: our responsibilities to God, family, […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Power of Men’s Team Ministry Testimonies in this Dark Hour By Herb Reese I enjoyed so much our blog subscriber Zoom meeting this past Saturday evening. Three men from three churches in different parts of the country joined the meeting to learn from […]
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Matthew 15:24 These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.” Matthew 10:5-6 Several […]
How churches treat widows gives us a clear indication of their moral and spiritual maturity.
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Leviticus 9:18 “I’m packing heat. So give me a call if anything happens.” My new Christian vigilante neighbor said good bye, turned and walked back to his house. It was several years ago and our family had just moved into a new home. […]
It all started with the cost of postage and printer ink. My online ministry, that is. About fifteen years ago I realized that I was spending way too much money on postage and printer ink to produce my monthly snail mail ministry newsletter. God was blessing my ministry, but that […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Brotherhood: How Jesus Started a New Human Race By Herb Reese “Go, tell my brothers to go to Galilee. There they will see me.” Matthew 28:9-10 “For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so […]
“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do […]
The apostles paid close attention to doctrine as a basis for their practical Christian discipleship.
New Commandment Men’s Ministries Blog The Difference Between Fearing COVID-19 and Being Afraid of COVID-19 By Herb Reese Take a close look at the picture that accompanies this post. It’s an image of the temporary green fence in my backyard. I erected it because I have a multi-day project […]
My mother-in-law recently moved in with us from Katy, Texas. She is a member of Second Baptist Church in Houston, a church with tens of thousands of members. Every Sunday she avidly watches the church worship service online and yesterday she mentioned to me and my wife that the church […]
It may come as a surprise to some, but after decades of repression under communist rule, the Russian Orthodox Church has been enjoying a resurgence among its countrymen of late. In fact, the proposition can be made that the church has supplanted communist ideology with its own and reestablished itself […]
Fortunately, I don’t have many problems with New Commandment Men’s Ministries. Over the last eighteen years, men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents has been well received and implemented in hundreds of churches around the world. I have faithful donors who, even in the middle of one of […]