KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Gospel
THE VERB "BEWARE" is used in the New Testament 31 times... That in itself shows that there is constant danger in living the Christian life. The prophet Ezekiel warns of the same danger mentioned here. God's people were in danger...
IF YOU WANT to be saved from your sins, just believing in Jesus is not enough... The first time the Gospel is ever preached is in Acts chapter 2. Peter preaches Jesus as a miracle-working teacher whom the Jews had...
A MAN IN his sixties was walking down the street of a modern subdivision... In his hand was a scrap of paper from a doctor's office with a name and address scribbled in pencil. As the man approached the house,...
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...
TO BE "SAVED" means to be made safe... It implies that the unsaved person is in danger. Mark 16:16 speaks of salvation and safety from sin. When the term saved is used in reference to a Christian, it means he...
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...
"YOU'LL HAVE A hard time topping him...!" This was the comment made by a well-intentioned Christian lady to the next speaker on the lectureship. He responded to this sister, "I don't want to top him. We're on the same side."...
WITHOUT QUESTION, THE best-known verse in the Bible is John 3:16... Martin Luther called it the Bible in miniature, and some even go so far as to say that if the Bible were lost except for John 3:16, we would...
WHEN SOMEONE BEGINS speaking by saying, "The ONLY thing you have to do to be saved is..." they involve themselves in error or double talk... There is no "alone" in the salvation process. It takes a combination of things on...
A MAN VISITED Tiffany's jewelry store in New York City... He was shown a magnificent diamond with its gleaming yellow light and many other splendid stones. But he observed one stone that was perfectly lusterless and said, "That has no...
I HEARD ABOUT a baby camel that asked, "Mom, why do I have these huge three-toed feet...?" The mother replied, "To help you stay on top of the soft sand while trekking across the desert." "And why the long eyelashes?"...