Here are the biggest mistakes I see church men’s ministries making on their men’s ministry web pages.
Ministry to Men
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I’ve posted before about Dr. Chuck Stecker, a good friend of mine who has a ministry called A Chosen Generation. It specializes in helping churches develop intergenerational ministries. Churches tend to silo their ministries, dividing them up into children, youth, young adults, men, women, etc. A Chosen Generation shows churches […]
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a pastor in Illinois experimenting with men’s team ministry to their widowed and single parents in my church, I realized we were on to something when one of our four teams decided to build their care receiver a Habitat for Humanity home. They got […]
I like to think of Christian men who have a deep relationship with the Lord as drop down menus. There he is, in the crowd, looking just like any ordinary guy. But get to know a Drop Down Menu Christian Man and suddenly exactly what you need appears all around him.
My husband’s father, Frank, recently passed away. We found some of his writings as you sometimes do after someone dies, sorting through their possessions with awe and wonder at all the experiences a human life can hold. I came across a passage written so eloquently that it brought me to […]
I get excited when I see a church effectively using social media to promote its men’s ministry. Today I came across Cypress Fellowship’s men’s ministry’s Facebook page and I love it. Here’s why. The name of their men’s group is masculine and immediately conveys what it’s about. “Cypress Fellowship Wingman” […]
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 […]
“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” Okay, here’s the deal, Christians: reality is utterly different than the majority of people around us realize. We have come to understand […]
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. […]
The men’s ministry at Crossroads is deeply spiritual, extremely healing, highly meaningful and very practical in a way that meets men at all spiritual levels.