KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Doctrine
UNUSUAL EVENTS often stir excitement that the coming of Christ is near... News of such things as earthquakes, wars, and political or economic upheavals are claimed by self-appointed prophets to be signs of the end. While premillenialists generally refrain from...
A MAN FELL over Niagra Falls... He managed to catch on a ledge of rock far below. He could not save himself. Neither could those above save him by letting a rope down to him. Being back under the ledge...
FAR BE IT from me to speak a word against the grace of God... Amazing grace -- how sweet the sound -- That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found -- Was blind, but...
A MAN'S WILL cannot be in effect before he dies... What does making a will require? It requires a testator, the man who makes it. There must be a gift or something to bestow. It requires conditions upon which the...
PERHAPS YOU HAVE had the experience of studying a section of the Bible and wondered how it could benefit your life... To be sure, it is not because you doubt that the Bible is inspired of God, but it just...
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...
THE BLOOD... The blood that cost Him His life means life for me. The blood that brought Him pain in shedding it brings me eternal peace. The blood that, when He shed so much of it, surely caused Him sickness...
WHEN WE CONTEND that baptism is essential to salvation, a common objection to such teaching is that it means that we earn our salvation... The objection might be worded like this: "Baptism is a work. If we are saved by...
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: ....
KNOWING THAT THE church is built (Matt. 16:18) upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, and thus that it will stand forever (Dan. 2:44), will cause Christians to appreciate the fact that time and culture cannot alter the makeup of the...
ON MARCH 20, 1980, MOUNT St. Helens in Washington, a supposedly dormant volcano, began to quake and rumble... The local population was evacuated to a "safe" distance 8 miles away. Later, the side of the mountain began to bulge. Scientists...
REPENTANCE IS ALSO an essential work of righteousness... Proof of this is seen in the combination of Matthew 12:41 and Jonah 3:10. Jesus said that the Ninevites repented at the preaching of Jonah (Matt. 12:41). Of the Ninevites, the record...
FALSE TEACHERS continue to propagate the idea that all works of righteousness are excluded from the salvation process... If these preachers would follow their "reasoning" to its logical extreme, they would have to exclude even faith from the salvation process....
NAAMAN WAS A great man, but he was a leper... He knew that he could not cleanse himself, and so he ultimately sought direction from the man of God named Elisha. Through a messenger, Elisha informed Naaman that God's power...
THE EVENTS SURROUNDING the tenth plague and the Passover are particularly instructive with reference to how God's part and man's part blend together in the accomplishment of deliverance from bondage... God's part was to pass through Egypt in judgment, but...
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE spake against Him, God sent fiery serpents among the people to bite them... Consequently, much people of Israel died (Num. 21:1-6). Penitence on the part of the people and the prayer of Moses moved a gracious God...
SOME BELIEVE AS long as they do enough good works, God will save them... Many at judgment will try to get through the gate in this way. Jesus explained, "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have...
SOME ARE CONVINCED that God's grace is all they need to get to heaven... It is true that none would make it without God's marvelous grace. Paul said, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not...
SOME HAVE BEEN taught all they have to do to be saved is "believe in Jesus..." "Faith alone" is their motto. While faith in Christ is absolutely essential (John 3:16; Heb. 11:6), it is not all that God requires. James...
NAAMAN WAS A great man, but he was a leper (2 Kgs. 5)... He knew that he could not cleanse himself, so he ultimately sought direction from the man of God named Elisha. Through a messenger, Elisha informed Naaman that...