KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Culture
"ANTI-HERO: A main character in a dramatic or narrative work who is characterized by a lack of traditional heroic qualities..." Consider what occupies and diverts our attention from substantive matters: Anna Nicole Smith; Britney Spears; the astronaut gone wild. It...
WE OFTEN HEAR the cultural argument from those who wish to justify their behavior... They contend that behaviors the New Testament held as sinful for the first century is not for the 21st century. To handle the Scriptures like this,...
...THE EARLY CHRISTIANS didn't rationalize matters from a human viewpoint... Even though divorce was considered perfectly proper in their society, they didn't permit divorce except for adultery. As Origen wrote, "What God has joined together, let no man separate --...
THE STORY IS told of a young man who came to the door of a monastery with a large duck in his arms... His uncle, who happened to be one of the monks, answered the knock. "Here, uncle, this is...
JOHN A. MCARTHUR Jr., in his book Ashamed of the Gospel, wrote: "Judging from attendance figures, lots of church members feel spending the Lord's Day in church is tantamount to blowing the whole day..." He then explained that some churches...
ONE OF THE great topics of discussion over the last year has been the price of gasoline... One frequently heard accusation has been that "the oil companies only raised the prices so high because they wanted us to feel like...
THE AUTHORS OF this country's freedom documents believed that Christian faith in God and political liberty were inseparable... Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that man's three basic rights were "unalienable" because they came from God and that...
SIN IS BEING celebrated in so many ways in our culture that we really should not be surprised that there is now a line of greeting cards specifically for people having affairs... The new "Secret Lovers Collection" has an initial...
"RADICAL CHRISTIANITY IS as dangerous as radical Islam..." (Rosie O'Donnell, spoken on "The View," Sept. 12, 2006). KneEmail: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter...
THE LIBRARIAN OF an elementary school was instructed to remove Bibles from her shelves of learning (yes this actually happened)... Accordingly, the word of God was escorted to an obscure spot in the back of the building. Overhearing a little...
THIS PAST WEEK, on June 16 the, a major religious body in the United States, at their national convention, voted against two proposals that expressed opposition to all same sex unions... My response to such an action is two-fold: ....