Yesterday, a pastor on the west coast with a successful, years-long men’s team ministry called me with a question. He said three families in his church had asked if they could serve a widow or single parent as individual families. He asked me if I knew of any churches that […]
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With the understanding that the vast majority of my readers are Christians, I must say that often in practice we act instead like we’re Mormons. Here’s why. I’m no authority on LDS theology, but I do know that Mormons believe that marriage survives death and lasts into eternity. Hence, Mormons […]
A breath of fresh air has been blowing through Ammons Circle lately. Over the last four years, seven young families have moved onto our block. Besides their young children, they’ve brought with them a zeal for updating and renovating their forty-something homes. Most of them have followed the new post […]
I confess. From time to time I feel a tinge of guilt for reading the news before I start writing my blog posts. Why immerse myself in the latest updates on intransigent wars, the dalliances of public figures, the social slop spread all over social media, mass shootings, who cursed […]
You’ve been caring for your loved one, possibly in your home or their home, and you’ve finally realized their needs have surpassed your ability to meet them. You’re exhausted and desperate. But before you go out and enlist the services of a nursing home you come to regret, here are […]
I have a prayer request, or rather, an anti-prayer request. Would you please stop praying about whether your church should serve its widowed and single parents? “But we haven’t started praying about whether we should serve these people,” you say. True. That’s probably because most churches completely ignore their widowed […]
Many years ago I was rummaging through my dad’s garage and came across a box of books. In it were the four famous volumes pictured here: The Fundamentals, published in 1917 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and edited by R. A. Torrey, first pastor of my home church, […]
In June of 2013, the Black Forest Fire burned 14,280 acres north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It killed two people and destroyed 509 homes. But because of the work of Oleta Goodrich’s team of men, it didn’t burn her home or the homes of six of her neighbors. Here’s her […]
Now that we’ve identified the five circles of a Christian man’s responsibility to guarantee the well-being of those in need around him — himself, his family, his extended family, his church and his neighbors — the next question is how one goes about fulfilling this responsibility without being completely overwhelmed. […]
New Commandment Men’s Ministries focuses on a very specific area of need: long term needs within the local church. Most often, people with this type of need are the widowed and single parents. But taking the biblical mandate to meet pressing needs as a whole, long term needs within the […]