KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Leadership
GOD'S LEADERS MUST lead... "And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, 'Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people.' So they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people"...
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...
WE DON'T ORDINARILY think of ear as beautiful parts of the body... They never get featured on the covers of magazines. There are not many songs or poems about ears. No one seems to compliment them. When did anyone come...
REMEMBER ARTHUR Andersen and the Enron debacle...? There was still another failure, and it is the most unforgivable failure of all: the failure to learn from failure. Enron was just the latest and biggest in a string of costly Arthur...
WHY DOES A person enter military service...? Some want to travel and see the world. Others are thrill seekers who find the adventure (and danger) exhilarating. Quite a few choose a career in the service for financial rewards (college tuition,...
NEHEMIAH RETURNED TO the ruins of Jerusalem to restore the city... He rallied the remnant people of Israel, and they immediately began rebuilding the wall. Several naysayers and antagonistic groups attempted to intimidate the workers and stall the work. Then...
IN NOVEMBER 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Hal" Moore Jr. and the U.S. Seventh Cavalry's First Battalion were engaged in one of the opening battles of the Vietnam War... Surrounded by an estimated 4,000 North Vietnamese regulars at a jungle clearing...
I REMEMBER WALKING down the hallway and nervously waiting in the lobby of the downstairs Bible office at Freed-Hardeman University... I had an appointment for my first meeting with the upper-division Bible counselor, Dowell Flatt. Our first personal meeting...
PETER CARTWRIGHT, A nineteenth-century, circuit-riding preacher, was an uncompromising man... One Sunday morning when he was to preach, we was told that President Andrew Jackson was in the congregation. Cartwright was warned not to say anything out of line. When...
IN EVERY ELDER'S toolbox There should be some TISSUES A man can never serve successfully as an elder without compassion. We live in an age when people are hurting. Elders must learn to get down where people are, and weep...
IN EVERY ELDER'S toolbox... There should be a STIFF BACK BRACE Though the work of an elder can be a wonderful experience, it can also be a discouraging one. To borrow a statement from Franklin Camp, "No men on earth...
IN EVERY ELDER'S toolbox... There should be a PHONE By definition, a shepherd is one who looks after the flock. With the hustle and bustle that exists within the local church, it can be a real challenge to drop in...
IN EVERY ELDER'S toolbox... There should be a PILLOW I don't know how you could be an elder in the Lord's church if you are not intimately involved with God. Intimacy with God cannot be had separate from a devoted...
BECAUSE THE CHURCH is a spiritual kingdom (Col. 1:13), having Jesus Christ as her Lord, there are spiritual principles that govern her life... Jesus never intended for us to adopt worldly wisdom with its principles which guide and organize human...