KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Eternity
COLUMNIST L. M. Boyd described the amazing good fortune of a man named Jack Wurm... In 1949, broke and out of a job, he was walking along a San Francisco beach when he came across a bottle with a piece...
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....
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday. The woman told Army Radio that she...
A WOMAN IN Brooklyn is suing a dental clinic for medical malpractice after she was given anethesia and then inadvertently left in the clinic alone overnight... Ramona Mercado was expecting to have her wisdom teeth pulled and she was prepped...
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my family was camping in the mountains of Colorado... We have arrived there late in the afternoon, and we picked out a nice spot close to a beautiful river. While I was attending to the chores of...
WHEN BRITAIN'S OLDEST man turned 111, vintage aircraft did a flyover, and the Band of the Royal Marines played "Happy Birthday..." According to the Daily Mirror, Henry Allingham was amazed by all of the attention. Until 6 years earlier, he...
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...
"EVERYBODY ENDS UP somewhere in life... A few people end up somewhere on purpose."1 The quote reminds me of the words of Paul to the saints at Philippi: "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high...
IN 1937, AMELIA Earhart set out on a 29,000-mile flight around the world... With only 7,000 miles remaining, she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in search of Howland Island, 2,556 miles distant in the middle of the Pacific Ocean....
ON FRIDAY A new Embraer Legacy jet took off from my city of São José dos Campos on its way to its new American owner... Over the thick Amazon jungle, it collided with a Boeing 737, Gol Airlines Flight 1907,...
THE SOCIAL REGISTER contains the names and addresses of 25,000 of America's most prominent families along with their club memberships, and other facts... It provides information about art, travel, collecting, philanthropy, and other subjects of interest to the well-heeled. It...
IN THE EARLY days of World War II, Winston Churchill called Britain's coal miners together... A great crisis had arisen. The miners were not getting out enough coal to fuel the factories that produced the planes, ships, etc., so desperately...
WHEN I WAS a boy, I had a bike that I had grown tired of... There wasn't anything wrong with it, I just wanted something better...a 10-speed. So I took my fire-engine red, Huffy bicycle, with a white banana seat,...
GOD HAS PROMISED to take away: . DEATH: No more bedside vigils, anxious moments and the mixed feelings that force us to cry, "I hate to see her suffer; but, I cannot bear to say, 'Goodbye.'" . MOURNING: No more...
YESTERDAY I STOOD at the bedside of a dear brother in Christ... His doctor recently diagnosed him with brain cancer and has given him only a few weeks to live. I watched as he wept in sadness as he thought...
JESUS, THE GREATEST preacher of all time, spoke often of hell... Never man spake as Jesus (John 7:46) -- yet He spoke of hell (Matt. 5:22; 23:33; 25:41; 13:49-50). Jesus used the word in his first sermon (as recorded by...
IN AN INTENSIVE care ward, all visitors are united by a single, awful thread: concern over a dying relative or friend... Economic differences...fade away. You'll see no sparks of racial tension there. Sometimes strangers will console one another or cry...
TUTANKHAMEN, THE BOY king, was only seventeen when he died... He was buried with solid gold chariots and thousands of golden artifacts. His gold coffin was found within gold tombs within gold tombs within gold tombs. The burial site was...