I wrote my first post for this blog on January 20, 2014. The title was, “The One Amazing Thing God Wants to Do with Men.” Five years and four hundred posts later, the question came to my mind, if I were to summarize the main points I’ve been trying to […]
Men’s Team Ministry
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For my first thirteen years as President of New Commandment Men’s Ministries helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I focused on men’s conference ministry. I worked primarily with Iron Sharpens Iron, one of the premier men’s ministries, doing seventy-five minute workshops around the U.S. […]
Let’s face it, men serving widows and others with long term needs isn’t exactly a huge draw in men’s ministry…until I can personally get in front of men in a workshop and talk about the love of Christ and how it applies to widows. When I can do that, men […]
Back in the 90’s, Promise Keepers had a huge impact on my life. In fact, like many other of my contemporary men’s ministry leaders, PK is the main reason I’m in full time men’s ministry today. During that decade, I took men from my church to five PK stadium events […]
“You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions. In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give […]
My childhood church had a Good Friday tradition of holding a special service at noon on the seven last words of Jesus. Since it was a downtown church, business people from the surrounding offices attended the service. Traditionally called the seven last words of Jesus, they’re actually the seven last […]
I’ve had it. Up to here. I’m currently working with three widows, each of whom have an adult son who is not pulling his weight when it comes to helping his mother. And the problem is, the mothers are too timid to call them on it. It’s not like the […]
Serving others may be humiliating, but such humiliation is necessary. Humility is a prerequisite Christian virtue. “No task too small” should our motto.
This post is a follow up on a recent one entitled, “Are Seminaries the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” I was going to title this one, “Are Pastors the Reason why Churches Ignore their Widowed and Single Parents?” But most pastors are already overburdened and stressed […]
It’s a sign of the times that I have to begin a post about an obvious truth – that men are to be providers and protectors – with a disclaimer: No, I am not saying that only men can be providers and protectors. Women can, and often do, fill that […]