KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
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SOME HANDS ARE used to play piano, some to mold clay, others to sign for those who cannot hear... Some hands are used to cook for others. Look at your hands. What do you see? I see veins popping...
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...
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,...
ON PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S first Saturday in Washington as President, a member of the Cabinet insisted that a Cabinet meeting must be called... Garfield refused on the grounds of another engagement. The Cabinet member insisted. Garfield still refused on the grounds...
POSSESSIONS OF THE powerful, wealthy, or famous, no matter how common, can become extremely valuable, even priceless... Napoleon's toothbrush sold for $21,000. Can you imagine paying thousands of dollars for someone's cruddy old toothbrush? Hitler's car sold for over...
EVER PLANT A garden...? Or maybe just a few flowers in a bed or a plant in a pot? Something makes it possible for the gardener to function, or a farmer to produce a crop is a "law" of nature....
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...
A FELLOW GOSPEL preacher relates the following story... "The first year of our marriage was spent on a farm. My wife, though reared on a farm, always allowed her parents to take care of killing as well as preparing frying...
I SAW THIS sign at a gas station while I was traveling... It made me think about instances when I've had to deal with "gunky build-up" in my life. For me, gunky build-up occurs when I let less important stuff...
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my family was camping in the mountains of Colorado... We have arrived there late in the afternoon, and we picked out a nice spot close to a beautiful river. While I was attending to the chores of...
ARISTARCHUS, MARK AND Justus were the only Jewish Christians who stood with Paul... The others may have been those of whom Paul wrote, "The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains" (Philippians...
FEW GREAT LEADERS are accomplished without obstacles or opposition... Nehemiah encountered both. The officials in Jerusalem ridiculed and opposed Nehemiah's efforts to rebuilt the wall. Tobiah the Ammonite chortled, "What they are building--if even a fox climbed up on it,...
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...
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...
IT WAS A fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island... She intended to swim the channel from the island to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new...
DR. PEDRO ARA Sarria perfected a technique for preserving the body and applied it to Argentina's Eva Peron... The embalmed body was kept intact but, for political reasons, was moved from place to place. It went from his laboratory in...
JOHN WOODEN, THE famous UCLA basketball coach, always kept a cross in his pocket... He said he kept it there to remind himself that there was something more important in life than basketball. THOUGHT: The cross (Philippians 2:8) ought to...