KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Men
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...
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...
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...
IN 490 BC, THE Persians landed at a place called Marathon with the hope of capturing Athens... Greatly outnumbered, the Athenians dispatched Pheidippides to Sparta for help. Pheidippides is reported to have run one hundred and fifty miles in two...
WHEN SOMEONE BEGINS speaking by saying, "The ONLY thing you have to do to be saved is..." they involve themselves in error or double talk... There is no "alone" in the salvation process. It takes a combination of things on...
REMEMBER "LONESOME DOVE," television's blockbuster mini-series...? It was the saga of two men, Woodrow Call and Gus McCray. Both strong. Stronger together. Men with rock solid commitments to each other. To be sure, both were stubborn eccentrics. They called each...
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,...
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...
ANCIENT WRESTLING MATCHES weren't for the squeamish or timid... Hoping to see some clean takedowns, reversals, and figure-four leg locks? Better look elsewhere. During the time of the Roman Empire, little things like kicking, biting, and scratching were perfectly acceptable...
QUESTION: BASED ON 1 Tim. 3 and Titus 1, is a man disqualified (from serving as an elder) if his children become unfaithful after they leave home...? ANSWER: Since each of us "shall give account of himself unto God" (Rom....
AFTER WORLD WAR I, hundreds of shell-shocked French soldiers could not remember who they were... The military's records were so faulty that they were no help. How could those victims of amnesia recall their names and be reunited with their...
STUART BRISCOE WRITES about a funeral for a war veteran in which the man's military buddies had a role in the service... The friends requested that the minister lead them to the casket for a moment of silence. They would...
CAPTAIN JERRY COFFEE was a pilot who was shot down during the Vietnam War... He spent 7 years as a prisoner of war in some of the most hellish conditions known to humankind. He was beaten, became malnourished, and was...
THE GREEK COUNTRYSIDE was in turmoil... The Persian military had never yet been defeated. It looked hopeless. Still, Greek men gathered from Sparta, from Plataea, and from Athens. When the opposing armies met, it was disheartening. The Greeks had something...