KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Righteousness
ORBITING OUR PLANET at speeds more than 4.5 miles per second is a growing collection of space junk... Nuts, bolts, and other discarded debris from space flights are presenting a real hazard to future spacecraft. Their sheer speed makes...
EVERYONE DEALS WITH guilt... All of us have been less than pure; our actions aren't always righteous. Our spirituality sometimes shrivels up like a leaf. We feel our sins will sweep us away. Paul said that all have sinned and...
MICHAEL HODGEN TELLS a rather humorous story about a man dressed in a devil outfit who was on his way to a costume party when suddenly he got caught in a rain storm. Searching for cover from the downpour, the...
WHEN I WAS a boy, I had a bike that I had grown tired of... There wasn't anything wrong with it, I just wanted something better...a 10-speed. So I took my fire-engine red, Huffy bicycle, with a white banana seat,...
I ONCE VISITED the testing room of a large steel mill... I was surrounded by instruments and equipment that tested pieces of steel to their limits and measured their breaking point. Some pieces had been twisted until they broke, and...
BILL TOOMEY RANKS as one of America's great twentieth-century athletes... He brought the gold medal for the decathlon back to the United States in the 1960s. I was a member of Bill Toomey's track team at the University of Colorado...
SOLOMON IS A disturbing biblical character... He begins his reign wisely, blessed by God with an incredible wisdom. God allows him to build a glorious temple. Wealth and wisdom are his; what more could a man want? But instead of...
SHORTLY BEFORE HIS death, the Duke of Burgundy was presiding over the Cabinet Council of France... A proposal was made by the ministers that would violate a treaty but would secure important advantages for the country. Many reasons were offered...
YEARS AGO, A radio station received a letter from a shepherd who lived on an isolated ranch in the western part of the United States... Never before had the station received such an unusual request. It read, "Will you please...
B. C. GOODPASTURE used to tell the story of a county superintendent of education who had three applicants apply to fill a vacancy for a school bus driver... He devised this scheme for selecting the best driver. He took the...