KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Culture
DURING WORLD WAR II, Nazi Germany dropped pornographic pamphlets from the sky over enemy territory... The reason; to distract the soldiers minds with fascinations causing them to ignore the front line. This has been the strategy of porn from...
SHE LOOKED HIM right in the eyes and said, "I want a divorce, the romance is gone out of our marriage... The terms "romance" and "love" are so nebulous to the average person, the court dockets are loaded with divorce...
A GOOD FRIEND of mine's personal statement on Facebook says, "Don't let your eyes adjust to the dark..." He gives no explanation or elaboration, and for his friends who are unfamiliar with the Bible, the message probably makes no...
AS A MAN Thinketh by James Allen is arguably the best non-inspired book ever written on the power of thought... Allen compared the mind to a garden and its owner to a master gardener. A good character is not the...
...I HAVE NO alternative but to bluntly call it a war... The prize is the inner spirit of my children, and the stakes are high. Arrayed against me are those who wish to extract money, loyalty, and the strong creative...
"IS IT REALLY possible for a person to KNOW the truth...?" There are so many opinions about what the Bible teaches. "Is truth even attainable in the religious realm?" These are common questions today. Consider a few observations from Scripture:...
IN 1995, OUTSIDE THE Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the son of a former embassy employee lost his life... Walking with his friends, he was confronted by muggers. Apparently, however, his murder could have been avoided. The thieves only wanted...
THIS PAST WEEK, the eyes of the nation were fixed on Washington, D.C. and the historic inauguration of Barak Hussein Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first black to be elected to the nation's highest office......
WHO HASN'T DREAMED of hitting the jackpot and buying a new car and taking the vacation of a lifetime...? Not all that long ago, Nevada was the only place you could legally play the slots or poker, and New Hampshire...
HAVE YOU EVER tried to figure out the remote control for your television set...? I find myself calling our cable company at least once or twice a year to say, "Hey, how do I make this thing work?" Inevitably, some...
"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: ....