KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Salvation
SOSTHENES (1 Corthians 1:1) WAS A common first-century name... This name also appears in Acts 18:17. There Luke describes how someone with this name was beaten by a Jewish mob because he failed to make a case against Paul....
ON MARCH 10, 1974, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, who had been a Japanese lieutenant in the Philippines during World War II, became the last Japanese soldier to surrender... The war ended in 1945, but Onoda hid in the jungles of the...
IF YOU WANT to be saved from your sins, just believing in Jesus is not enough... The first time the Gospel is ever preached is in Acts chapter 2. Peter preaches Jesus as a miracle-working teacher whom the Jews had...
TO BE "SAVED" means to be made safe... It implies that the unsaved person is in danger. Mark 16:16 speaks of salvation and safety from sin. When the term saved is used in reference to a Christian, it means he...
THE FUTURE OF our nation's health care system is in the spotlight... Congress has been asked to pass a package of legislation with an unimaginable price tag. No one denies that there is a need to make changes to our...
IT LOOKED AS if the rain would never stop... The clouds were laden and heavy. The thunder rumbled across the sky, and there was even an occasional flash of lightning. The day was gloomy enough, but the funeral that I...
WITHOUT QUESTION, THE best-known verse in the Bible is John 3:16... Martin Luther called it the Bible in miniature, and some even go so far as to say that if the Bible were lost except for John 3:16, we would...
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...
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...
I ALMOST CLEANED out my attic today... It is such a mess. I've been putting it off until warmer weather. I almost started sorting out the stuff that needs to be thrown away from the stuff I need to keep....
"ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS saved" is wrong--the Bible teaches that one can fall from grace... However, "If saved, barely saved," is equally wrong! We not only teach that "One can fall from grace--he probably will!" Brethren come to worship to be...
THERE IS COMING a day that won't be followed by another day...Are you ready...? There is coming a day when this earth, and all that is in it will be burned up and destroyed...Are you ready? There is coming a...
A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL named Jessica was playing outside of her house one day when a pit bulldog came up in her yard... She went over to pet him and he attacked her--knocking her down and immediately clamping down on her...
CAN YOU BE a Christian without being perfect...? "It's no use. I tried and failed. I quit." Sound familiar? "Once saved, always saved" is wrong. "Once saved, never saved" is equally wrong. Christians must know they are saved. Because I...
THE BLOOD... The blood that cost Him His life means life for me. The blood that brought Him pain in shedding it brings me eternal peace. The blood that, when He shed so much of it, surely caused Him sickness...
ON MARCH 20, 1980, MOUNT St. Helens in Washington, a supposedly dormant volcano, began to quake and rumble... The local population was evacuated to a "safe" distance 8 miles away. Later, the side of the mountain began to bulge. Scientists...
GENESIS 12:3 IS the second recorded gospel sermon... It is the second piece in God's spiritual puzzle of redemption. It looks backward to man's problem in Genesis 3:6 and forward to God's remedy in Calvary. It looks backward to man's...