KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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WHAT IF SOMEONE knocked on your door today and asked, "Could I sell you some misery today...? What have all kinds for sale." Would you buy it? Of course not, but many of us, including me, have "bought" it...
GORDON BELL IS trying to devise a system in which he can recall almost anything in his life... For the past decade, Bell, a Microsoft researcher, has been "moving" the data from his brain onto computers. The process is much...
YEARS AGO, A thunderstorm swept through southern Kentucky and blew over an old pear tree on a farm where the Claypool family had lived for six generations... Old Grandpa Claypool grieved to lose the tree he had climbed as a...
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...
I HAVE A vivid recollection of that day... My wife came in the room, turned on the TV set and then spoke in shaken tones. She said, "They've flown a jet-liner into one of the World Trade Center towers in...
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...
PEOPLE USED TO travel between the UP (Upper Peninsula) and LP (Lower Peninsula) of Michigan by ferry until they built a bridge along the Straits of Mackinac... In 1934, the Michigan Legislature created the Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority to study...
IMAGINE A PERSON you love very much... They are a wonderful person and a terrific FRIEND - smart and capable. You have a great rapport, and enjoy the times you are together. You laugh together, and can share sorrows too....
The Prodigal Son, in the Key of 'F' Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the family finances. He flew far to foreign fields and frittered his fortune feasting fabulously with faithless friends....
TWO MONKS WERE walking together through the country-side... Both had taken the vow of silence and the vow of cleanliness, which meant they were not to speak to or touch anyone. Their journey brought them to a shallow stream, but...