KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Worship
WHAT IS YOUR favorite family tradition...? Perhaps it is hamburgers and fireworks on July 4. You may look forward to turkey on Thanksgiving Day, chocolate cake on your birthday, or a big family gathering in your childhood home. Or you...
IT WOULD BE next to impossible for one to read Hebrews 10:24-31 and reach any conclusion other than that there is a regular assembly of the saints commanded by God... One indeed might reach a different conclusion but such a...
WORSHIP... THAT SOUNDS like a simple question, doesn't it? One word to understand and one source from which to seek the information. Yet when you hear the multiplicity of answers given you must conclude that either the question is a...
DIANA ROSS MCCAIN wrote an insightful article entitled, "The Hardships of Worship..." In it she described what it was like to worship in a Connecticut church meetinghouse some two-hundred plus years ago. She observed: "There was no fireplace, no stove,...
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...
THE STORY IS told of a young man who came to the door of a monastery with a large duck in his arms... His uncle, who happened to be one of the monks, answered the knock. "Here, uncle, this is...
LAST VETERANS' DAY, I bought a poppy from those nice ladies outside the post office... That night an 18-year-old girl spotted the flower attached to my shirt pocket and asked what it was for. I was a little taken aback....
...SOME PEOPLE WORSHIP their bodies... People spend hours at the gym, sculpting their bodies, yet completely neglecting their spiritual lives. ...Some people think nothing of getting up at the crack of dawn and heading to the gym for that hour-and-a-half...
DURING THE CIVIL War, when Liberty, Missouri, was under the command of Union troops, an order was issued that no public meeting, of any kind, was to be conducted... This directive even included worship services. Dr. W.A. Morton, a strong...
QUEEN MARY MADE a regular visit to Scotland every summer... On one occasion she was strolling with a group of children. Suddenly the sky turned gray and thick, dark clouds appeared. The queen stopped at a nearby house and asked...
AS A BOY I noticed that men who worked outdoors in the winter found the warmth of a church building most conducive to sleep... A few years later, after working 17 hours on Saturday in a meat market, I struggled...
MY FATHER SIMPLY couldn't be embarrassed when it came to fulfilling his family's needs... I remember once we were driving down the road to our house when Dad spotted a broken Big Wheel tricycle in someone's trash. He stopped the...
...PEOPLE GIVE HIM very little help but expect him to be a great communicator in the pulpit, an incredible organizer and leader in the office, and a perfect husband and parent at home... That's a heavy burden for anybody to...
GOD WAS ANGRY with their careless, shoddy methods of worship... The animals they brought for sacrifice were not acceptable to Him because they were not the best of the herds and flocks. Instead, they offered stolen, lame, and sick animals....
THE FIRST ROLE of successful merchandising is to give consumers what they want... If they want bigger burgers, make their burgers bigger. Designer bottled water in six fruit flavors? Done. Minivans with ten cup holders? Give them twenty. You've got...
A POOR MAN who lived in the country broke his leg in an accident... That meant he was laid up for a long while, unable to work. His family was large and needed help. Someone got up a prayer meeting...