Most Christians know what agape is. It’s the Greek word for love. Agape is the highest Christian virtue. It means “unconditional love.” Paul in 1 Corinthians 13 famously describes agape love and ends with extolling it as greater than even faith, which saves us, and hope, which sustains us. But […]
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I’ve moved often over the years, both as a single man and while married. So I’ve collected a number of bad neighbor stories that inspire me to think about what it means to be a good–and bad–neighbor. Take the lout across the street from us who constantly yelled at his […]
Emily Colson, daughter of Prison Fellowship founder, Chuck Colson, shares how she found God’s blessing in the midst of trial as a single mom and mother of an autistic son. Herb: Emily, it’s been wonderful to meet you and get to know you. You are a single mother with an […]
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Over the years, I’ve often asked the men in my workshops how many of them have helped someone in their church move. Well over ninety percent raise their hands, often groaning and nodding as they do. Then I joke about how they didn’t know it, but when they joined their […]
We just got through the holiday season, which means we all received a tsunami of requests for donations from charities, New Commandment Men’s Ministries included. But more than a few of us may be experiencing “Giver’s Remorse,” a subtle regret that maybe it wasn’t so smart to shove that $50 […]
I know it sounds naive to even ask this question, but if America in the early 19th century could be regarded as primarily a “Christian” nation, meaning the Bible was taken seriously by the culture in general, most churches, with some variance, held to historic Christian doctrine, and Christian norms […]
Never underestimate the ability of the human race to corrupt good things, and that extends to good works themselves. Now that the church has a two thousand year track record, we have plenty of examples of how even Christians can turn good works into bad things. Here are several ways […]
It’s no secret that American men have a problem with porn. Here are the sad statistics. 68% of young men visit a porn site at least once a week 12% of all websites are pornographic 25% of all search engine requests are porn related But things are different for Christian […]