KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Death
WHEN THE X-RAY comes back and it doesn't look good, remember...God is still faithful... When you read that heart-breaking note from your mate, remember...God is still faithful. When you hear the worst kind of news about one of your...
THERE WERE SOME anxious moments at our house as my daughter and I prepared for our mission trip... Late in the packing process we discovered that my passport that had been set out earlier, was not a current passport! That...
A PREACHER TRAVELED across the country for a week of meetings... The only problem was, his baggage didn't make it. He needed a couple of suits so he went down to the local thrift shop. When he told the salesman,...
A STORY IS told about a man who came face to face with the dangers of worry... Death was walking toward a city one morning and a man asked, "What are you going to do?" "I'm going to take 100...
I HAVE A vivid recollection of that day... My wife came in the room, turned on the TV set and then spoke in shaken tones. She said, "They've flown a jet-liner into one of the World Trade Center towers in...
EVER PLANT A garden...? Or maybe just a few flowers in a bed or a plant in a pot? Something makes it possible for the gardener to function, or a farmer to produce a crop is a "law" of nature....
WITH THE DEATH of Michael Jackson, the media buzzes with details of his popular career and his bizarre life: star of the family group, the Jackson Five, the changes in his music, his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, his...
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...
DR. PEDRO ARA Sarria perfected a technique for preserving the body and applied it to Argentina's Eva Peron... The embalmed body was kept intact but, for political reasons, was moved from place to place. It went from his laboratory in...
THE SALMON NEARLY leaped onto to their hooks... That was a far cry from the day before when the four anglers couldn't even seem to catch an old boot. Disappointed but not discouraged, they had climbed aboard their small seaplane...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS accredited with saying that there is nothing in this life that is certain except death and taxes... Funny, is it not, how neither seems to come at an opportune time? Death is something that we never come...
HAVE YOU EVER felt truly alone...? After my father died, I gathered with our family at a funeral home to choose the casket and arrange specifics for the memorial service. As I drove away from the funeral home, I made...
OF THE DOZENS upon dozens of funerals that I have conducted, I have never conducted one where the casket was occupied by anyone who had anything in his hand... And none of the suits wrapped around those bodies required pockets....