From the Montana Street bulletin, comes the following article by Brother Jeff Jenkins, preacher for the Lewisville congregation in Lewisville, Texas.

During President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address on January 20,1961, President Kennedy said the following inspiring words supporting the many freedoms we have in our great nation: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

In looking at Scripture, I’ve often wondered how King Solomon might have summed up his life in six words. As a young man, he could have written: “God has given me great wisdom” (1 Kings 4:29-34). But in his later years, he might have said: “Should have practiced what I preached” (1 Kings 11:1-8).

After the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the thinking was that more people would turn to religion. And perhaps they did — at least momentarily — to that brand of religion that offers gentle homilies and smooth platitudes while demanding no true conversion or spiritual growth.

Do we believe that God exists because of some “leap of faith” or is there real evidence for God’s existence? God “did not leave Himself without witness” (Acts 14:17). There is much evidence. It is not some “leap of faith” or some assumption as some teach! There is credible evidence for God’s existence. Here are […]

The story is told of a boy who once lived with a badly disfigured face. As a result, there came many unkind remarks. One day the boy said to his mother, “Mom, I hate people.” Realizing he had become despondent, she took him to a canyon and told him to shout, “I hate you!”

A querist asks, “How can I know which books are properly part of the Bible and which aren’t?”

The proper spiritual training of our children is a God-assigned, individual responsibility assigned primarily to fathers that cannot be abdicated to anyone else. Fatherhood inherently imposes obligations to train children — whatever is entailed in Ephesians 6:4, cannot be shifted to someone

In the former Soviet Union, peasant farmers often enjoyed telling humorous stories to lighten their dreary lives. The following is such a story:

Not long ago, my wife and I decided to eat breakfast at one of our local restaurants, I wanted bacon instead of sausage, but the menu said “No substitutions.”

In the morally bankrupt society of Jeremiah’s day, God instructs the prophet to: “Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; see now and know; and seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her, though […]

Have we ever thought about the distance from God’s glorious throne down to the horrible cross of Calvary? What is the measure of our loving Savior’s love for us? In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he described Jesus’ descent from the heights of glory to the depths of shame and agony and back again.

Too much of our writing, preaching, and visiting is directed to the weak and unfaithful. In this article, our intent is to reverse that order. This article is not addressed to you who have to be begged, petted, and pampered before you will attend all the services of the church, and still are absent as […]

Years ago, a man wrote to Dear Abby and asked, “Dear Abby: I am in love and am having an affair with two different women. I can’t marry them both. Please tell me what to do, but don’t give me any of that morality stuff” (source).

On the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mt. Everest, a television newsman said that much of Hillary’s status as a hero in Nepal was “not about what he did when he stood on top of the world, but what he did when he came back down.” After conquering the world’s highest […]

When this writer gets up every weekday morning at 5:00 a.m., preparing myself to go to the workplace, I immediately start to fix myself a healthy breakfast consisting of fruit, eggs, turkey bacon (without any fat), whole wheat toast and orange juice. Research tells us that a healthy breakfast is the most important meal of […]

President James A. Garfield is quoted as saying, “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”

In one of his most famous speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King longed for his children to grow up in a world where they would be judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

There are athletes who have run in more than one marathon in less than two months. That level of fitness requires relentless, dedicated training.

If we’ve ever visited a cemetery, we know that death plays no favorites — the grim reaper’s sickle reaps the king on the throne as well as the slave working in the field. Death not only claims the elderly on the bed of pain and suffering, but takes a tragic toll