KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Influence
IN HER BOOK The Key to a Loving Heart, Karen Mains has parable entitled "The Brawling Bride..." The parable describes a climatic moment in a wedding ceremony. Both families have been seated. The grooms and his attendants are in...
THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL and straightforward way of winning with people is to give them a compliment -- a sincere and meaningful word of affirmation... If you want to make others feel like a million bucks, you've got to master...
THE ITALIAN WORD for influence is influenza... The word influenza was introduced into English in the mid-1700s, apparently coming from the Italian phrase which attributed the origin of this malady to an influenza di freddo (influence of the cold)....
WHAT IF SOMEONE knocked on your door today and asked, "Could I sell you some misery today...? What have all kinds for sale." Would you buy it? Of course not, but many of us, including me, have "bought" it...
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...
A GOOD FRIEND of mine's personal statement on Facebook says, "Don't let your eyes adjust to the dark..." He gives no explanation or elaboration, and for his friends who are unfamiliar with the Bible, the message probably makes no...
"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."...
I CARRY SOME coffee stir sticks around in my backpack because I want to remember that I need to be a stir stick... I want to get into the lives of people and stir them up and help them reach...
FOR THE FIRST time in her life, Western Oregon University's Sara Tucholsky not only hit a home run in a game against Central Washington University, but she hit it over the fence... She had passed first base and was on...
WHEN I WAS a little kid, I got a pretty nasty burn on my leg... The doctor applied a bandage designed to adhere to the burned skin. The bandage was made of a material that had a healing ointment in...
WHAT SHOULD WE leave behind when we die...? A faithful family. We will leave a mourning family behind on that sad day, but will we leave a faithful one? Will each be on his or her way to heaven? We...