KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Marriage
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...
SINCE GOD INSTITUTED marriage as an exclusive and permanent union, a union which he makes and man must not break, Jesus draws the inevitable deduction that to divorce one's partner and marry another, or to marry a divorced person,...
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...
WE ALL HAVE walls... Not the stone, concrete, or wooden ones that typically surround properties, but emotional ones. Ther are parts of our lives that we keep walled off from other people. The closer we are to someone, the fewer...
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...
TWO "OLD BOYS" down home went deer hunting and hit the jackpot... They killed an eleven-point buck and were dragging him through the thick underbrush toward their truck when they encountered another hunter who offered some free and unsolicited, "Fellows,...
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...
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...
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...
I CANNOT OVERSTATE how frightning it is to lose a sense of control or influence... People will even choose to stay in familiar situations that they know are not working rather than face the ambiguity of the unknown. Many times...
MY DEAR FRIENDS..., You know around here we are experiencing hardships, but we thank the Lord He is comforting us and caring for us in every way. When we experience misfortune, adversity, distress and hardship, only then do we see...
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...
WHEN A MAN says... When a man says "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN" He means: "I have no idea how it works" When a man says "TAKE A BREAK, HONEY. YOU ARE WORKING TOO HARD'' He means: "I...
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...