This past year, but especially around the Feast of Tabernacles, a number of God's people experienced the isolation of quarantine, leading many to questioning God's purpose or motive for imposing the unsettling and confusing isolation. It …
In 1984, R&B singer Tina Turner resurrected her fading pop-music career with the release of the pop-single, “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” Written by Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, the Grammy-winning song cautions the listener to avoid …
A few weeks ago, a local talk-show host, self-described as "an aging hippie," remarked that he believed that in most matters one can find "the truth somewhere in the middle." He proceeded to explain that on just about any issue, if a …

(36) And Joses, who was also named Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated Son of Encouragement), a Levite of the country of Cyprus,
In Acts 4:36 Luke translates Barnabas to mean "son of encouragement" or "son of consolation." The original Greek word rendered "encouragement," paraklesis , means encouragement, consolation, comfort, exhortation, and entreaty. It may be …
When a military force secures a stationary line of resistance (in Korea, it was called the “main line of resistance” or MLR), the officers often send part of the force back a mile or two to build a secondary line of defense. This new line’s purpose is to provide a defensive position for mainline soldiers to fall back to if the enemy bursts through the MLR. Bunkers and other defense structures are built in advance to provide shelter and protection. Once an army gets the opposition on the run, it has the upper hand. If the enemy has no secondary line of defense prepared, a hasty retreat …
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