KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Jesus
NEAR THE VILLAGE of Gevas in eastern Turkey, while shepherds ate their breakfast, one of their sheep jumped off a 45-foot cliff to its death... Then, as the stunned shepherds looked on, the rest of the flock followed. In all,...
MY NINE-YEAR-old daughter, Jennifer, was looking forward to our families' mini-vacation... But when our vacation arrived, she became ill, and a long anticipated day at Sea World was replaced by an all-night series of CAT scans, X-rays, and blood work...
DURING THE FILMING of the classic 1958 western, Big Country, one of the actors, Charlton Heston, thought he could help the director by improving the dialogue in one scene... During a break he walked over to William Wyler, the director,...
JESUS TOLD THE twelve to get into a boat on the Sea of Galilee... As they started across the sea, everything was smooth and calm, and Jesus went to sleep. Suddenly a huge wind blasted on the sea and the...
IN THE SPRING of 1861, Southern officials, believing him loyal to their cause, commissioned Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert as a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army... However on the day of his confirmation, Torbert was serving as a Colonel in the...
CROWDS EXCITE... Crowds have the appearance of success. The modern church is into crowds. Get crowds! Jesus feared crowds. Jesus ran from crowds (John 6). Jesus came to preach. Jesus left crowds to preach! Baffling! But the crowds wanted a...
JESUS WINS THE World's All-Time Most Distinguished Teacher award... It is not a plaque someone presented to Him but simply recognition by millions who have sat at His feet for nearly 2,000 years: He had not classroom, except the one...
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...
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...
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....
OFTEN, ESPECIALLY DURING times of temptation, we draw great assurance from the fact that we have a High Priest in heaven Who knows how we feel, One Who was tempted in every way we are tempted, and yet He overcame,...
SOCRATES TAUGHT FOR 40 years... Plato taught for 50, Aristotle for 40 and Jesus only three; yet those three years infinitely transcend in influence the combined one hundred and thirty years of teach of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, three of...
AN ENGLISH WRITER has said, "The early Christians did not go around saying, 'Look what the world is come to...' Rather they went out with great joy and said to all men, 'Look what has come to the world!'" There...
THE ILLEGAL ACTIONS of the Jewish leaders brought about the death of Christ...but those actions also brought about the completion of his resurrection and atonement... The trial of Christ was unfair. It was illegal. And that is one of the...
JESUS THEN PERFORMED one of His most dramatic miracles as He called Lazarus out of the tomb... You see, the Master was not really late at all. He only appeared to be overdue. He arrived at the precise moment necessary...
THE NEW TESTAMENT indicates that Jesus' body was prepared for burial according to "the custom of the Jews" (John 19:40)... This would involve washing the corpse. One recalls how the body of Dorcas was washed in preparation for her burial...
AFTER A HIJACKED plane slammed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, many people inside the building were trapped by a cloud of thick, blinding smoke... Police officer Isaac Hoopi ran into the blackness, searching for survivors, and heard people...