KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Money
A PREACHER TRAVELED across the country for a week of meetings... The only problem was, his baggage didn't make it. He needed a couple of suits so he went down to the local thrift shop. When he told the salesman,...
ONE DAY, THE father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live... They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm...
JERUSALEM -- An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday. The woman told Army Radio that she...
AN ANCIENT LEGEND tells of Al Haffed, a wealthy man who owned a large farm... One evening a visitor related to him tales of diamonds that could be found in other parts of the world. The vision of all this...
THE 1918 INFLUENZA epidemic was the most destructive in history... It is estimated that more than 20 million people world-wide perished of the flu in a few months and more than 50 times as many were sick. In the US,...
THE BLOG TITLE read, "Moron turns in $140,000.00..." The title refers tot he news story that broke last month. Eli Estrada, a 40-year-old Palm Beach resident found a bag containing $140,000 in unmarked $20 bills. Mr. Estrada certainly could have...
IN 1995, OUTSIDE THE Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the son of a former embassy employee lost his life... Walking with his friends, he was confronted by muggers. Apparently, however, his murder could have been avoided. The thieves only wanted...
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,...
YOU'VE READ STORIES of lottery winners who are more miserable a few years after winning than they were before... The wealth they dreamed would bring happiness didn't. Not even close. At the airport, Hugh Maclellan Jr. saw an acquaintance who...
WHO HASN'T DREAMED of hitting the jackpot and buying a new car and taking the vacation of a lifetime...? Not all that long ago, Nevada was the only place you could legally play the slots or poker, and New Hampshire...
HE HAD JUST left... Saddened by Jesus' command to sell everything. To give his money to the poor. He had great wealth. The problem was, he loved his money. Probably, the disciples stared unbelieving at Jesus, perplexed that he would...
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...
IT WAS DURING the war... His wages were low. He and mother wore old clothes, and tried to provide as best they could for our family. We were very poor; but frankly, I didn't know it then. Yet, while it...
IT'S FLU SEASON again, only there’s a not-so-new strain that is out there that is more vicious than any germ... Its Latin name is affluenza-gottabuyitis. The symptoms affect us all unless we are inoculated with the contentment serum that comes...
MORRIS AND HIS wife went to the state fair every year, and every year Morris would say, "Esther, I'd like to ride in that helicopter..." Esther always replied, "I know Morris, but that helicopter ride is 50 dollars and 50...
WORRY IS WIDESPREAD and is a universal problem... It is not limited to any one class. The poor and rich, the cultured and the unlearned and both the young and old worry. We worry about how to get money, and,...
HAVE YOU EVER noticed how some televangelists are always making urgent pleas, asking for money to keep their ministry afloat...? They often promise that if you "plant a seed of faith" (translated: give them money) you will receive one hundred...
WHETHER MEN ARE wealthy or poor -- or somewhere in between -- their attitude toward material possessions is one of the most reliable marks of their spiritual condition... There is a temptation to both the rich and the poor. The...