KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Family
PICTURE THESE TWO situations, and then ask yourself how you would react -- what it would be like in your house... Dad comes home after a busy day at the office to find Mom in the kitchen working on dinner....
MARCH OF THE Penguins follows the Emperor Penguins of Antarctica on their incredible journey through ice and snow to mating grounds inland... This beautiful documentary captures the drama of these three-foot-high birds. Once the penguins have made the trek and...
WE ARE IN danger of rearing a generation of children who do not have "No" in their vocabulary... We have been treated to a milk and toast diet of "accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch onto the affirmative" and...
MARITAL ARGUMENTS CAN have a significant effect on the physical health of each spouse, a 2005 study from Ohio State University showed... The study looked at 42 couples who had been married at least 12 years, during two clinical visits...
IN ANOTHER COMMUNITY I spoke in fervent tones about reclaiming our families for God... After the session a mother approached me and thanked me for speaking boldly about our families. She informed me that she was very thankful that her...
STUDIES SHOW THAT entire families who begin the day with hot food, encouraging words, and affection do their respective tasks more efficiently during the time they are apart... The unfortunate ones who leave each other after a quarrel do not...
GLYNN "SCOTTY" WOLFE was the most married man in the world, holding the Guinness Book of World Records title as the most-married man... The acclaimed marriage king died on June 10, 1997 of heart disease at his Redlands, California, nursing...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR once said, "By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact... But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds,...
LAST VETERANS' DAY, I bought a poppy from those nice ladies outside the post office... That night an 18-year-old girl spotted the flower attached to my shirt pocket and asked what it was for. I was a little taken aback....
PEOPLE OFTEN PAY high prices because of one man in the concert: the conductor... He enters to the applause of the audience. A hundred instruments are poised by a hundred tense musicians. Each player is prepared to make a special...
HER WRITING CAREER spanned three decades, from the mid-1960's through the mid-1990's... She wrote 12 books and received 16 honorary doctorate degrees. But 3 years before she died of cancer in 1996, popular humorist Erma Bombeck told an ABC TV...
THE LOVE THAT God commands is not a feeling but a commitment, a decision to treat people right (Matt. 7:12)... I wish I had the ability to communicate accurately that concept to couples before, during, and after the wedding. Many...
MARRIAGE STRIPS AWAY the illusions about sex pounded into us daily by the media... Few of us live with oversexed supermodels. We live instead with ordinary people, men and women who get bad breath, body odors, and unruly hair; who...
ABOUT 10 MILLION people live with an unmarried partner... That's about 8% of U.S. couples, most in the 25-to-34 age group. Women view cohabitation as a commitment taken before marriage to that partner, while men see it as a step...
...AN UNHAPPY HOME produces unbalanced children... However idyllic the kingdom of David, his home was unhappy. He may have built an impressive legacy for Israel and expanded his realm beyond the dream of any other man. He may have been...
TWO-YEAR-OLD Samantha is a doll... Her smile brightens the room. Her big, brown eyes sparkle with life. Samantha was visiting her grandparents for the holidays. One afternoon she was tottering through the house with her "sippy cup" in hand. Those...
AFTER THE UNITED States was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001, President Bush called on Congress to create a Department of Homeland Security... The job of this agency is to do everything possible to keep citizens safe. THOUGHT: Our...
SEVERAL DECADES OF social science research reveals that children do best in two-parent, father and mother families, and that any departure from this model diminishes children's chance of success... Without a father in the house, children of both sexes are...
THE WORLD HAS made a god of sex and a mockery of marriage... Jumping from partner to partner, from mate to mate, from bed to bed has become more rule than exception. "Free love", which in truth is neither free...
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN began seeing a marriage counselor... Her walk, her dress, her smile were real attention-getters. She was extremely attractive. "I'm falling in love with a man in my office," she said. "We haven't had sexual relations, but I'm...
THE HEBREW PHRASE "train up" came from agrarian terminology, which referred to training a tree or vine to grow in a particular shape or direction... If you have ever been to Disney World, you have seen those fascinating shrubs shaped...