KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Love
LET'S CONSIDER THAT prized trophy or treasured car... Would you consider leaving it outside in the open, exposed to the elements of nature, animals, dirty-fingered kids, and inconsiderate neighbors? Probably not. More likely you would shield it from these...
IT IS IMPORTANT for husband and wife to have fun together... What do you do for "play time"? Do you spend your recreational time together or doing your own thing? There is nothing wrong with having some activities that...
DURING WORLD WAR II, Nazi Germany dropped pornographic pamphlets from the sky over enemy territory... The reason; to distract the soldiers minds with fascinations causing them to ignore the front line. This has been the strategy of porn from...
IN HIS BOOK "The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage," Myles Munroe says: . When a male demands, a female reacts; she doesn't respond. . When a male gives, a female responds. . When a male commits, a female...
THE BIBLE ACKNOWLEDGES the problem of anxiety... An awful lot of people's answer to anxiety is medication. I certainly don't want to make light of the very serious issues of anxiety with which many people must cope in their...
A COUPLE MARRIED for 15 years began having more than usual disagreements... They wanted to make their marriage work and agreed on an idea the wife had. For one month they planned to drop a slip in a "Fault" box....
BUILDING A GOOD marriage and building a good log fire are similar in many ways... You build a fire with paper and kindling, and all at once it goes up in a brillilantly burning blaze. Then the primary blaze burns...
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,...
BOOKSTORE SHELVES ARE full of books on marriage, many of them describing the reasons marriages fail... Such books are usually written by therapists, who spend their time working with clients whose marriages are experiencing meltdown. A great deal can obviously...
SHE LOOKED HIM right in the eyes and said, "I want a divorce, the romance is gone out of our marriage... The terms "romance" and "love" are so nebulous to the average person, the court dockets are loaded with divorce...
CONSIDER THAT A faithful Christian wife doesn't submit to her husband because he is stronger... She does so because of her conviction that this is God's will. Most women have within their power to control and manipulate their husband if...
MY HUSBAND AND I dated all through high school and we have boxes and boxes of notes we used to write back and forth... I loved getting these notes, but it seemed that after we go married these stopped. One...
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...
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...
HAVE YOU EVER felt truly alone...? After my father died, I gathered with our family at a funeral home to choose the casket and arrange specifics for the memorial service. As I drove away from the funeral home, I made...
JUST BEFORE JESUS went to Calvary He said to His disciples, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that...
NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband... "I do not only want to get rid of him; I want to get even. Before I divorce him,...
CHILDREN DO NOT always learn in the schoolroom how to treat one another with dignity and affection... You can't diagram respect, forgiveness, or servanthood. It isn't found in any encyclopedia that I know of. It is observed and then put...
IT WAS A 99 degree September day in San Antonio, when a 10-month-old baby girl was accidently locked inside a parked car by her aunt... Frantically the mother and aunt ran around the auto in near hysteria, while a neighbor...
A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL named Jessica was playing outside of her house one day when a pit bulldog came up in her yard... She went over to pet him and he attacked her--knocking her down and immediately clamping down on her...
NO PREMARITAL OR extramarital sex, no out of wedlock pregnancy, no divorce, no abortion, no sexually transmitted disease, no incest, no love triangle, no homosexual or lesbian involvement, no other sexual perversion; yet, this simple and sweet love story of...
IT IS SAD to hear people say: "I know he must have loved me, but I never heard him say it..." Listen to parents who gather around their child's casket sobbing, "When she left for school today, we had been...
WE MUST STRIVE to never wallow in sentimentality and call it love... We must remove all permissiveness toward sin in the name of love. True biblical love does not permit, endorse, excuse or countenance sin. On the contrary, with all...