IN MANY SMALL local assemblies today, one pastor receives a significant salary while other elders or pastors often serve without pay. While this may seem practical, Scripture shows that local church leadership is a calling rooted in service, humility, and shepherding, not a corporate job. Paul’s Example: Missionary Support, Not Local Salary The Apostle Paul provides guidance on financial support for ministry: “Those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel” (1 Corint

“We know...Charlie was under a lot of pressure from numerous pro-Israel donors...He was suddenly publicly assassinated and we’re not allowed to ask questions?...By no means am I saying the Israelis did this...but there’s a lot of unanswered questions.” - Joe Kent ( Former director of the National Counterterrorism Center). An American politician, former United States Army warrant officer, and former Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer who served as the director o

HEBREWS Chapter 5 vv. 1-14 ~ 1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, 2 being able to deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; 3 and because of it, he is obligated, just as for the people, to also offer sacrifices for sins in the same way for himself. 4 And no one takes this honor to himself, but receives it whe

Today in history, 25MAR1306, Robert the Bruce was crowned king at Scone and went on to lead Scotland’s fight for independence. His decisive victory at the Battle of Bannockburn broke English control, and independence was later secured through the Treaty of Northampton. - Additional News of Note for 25MAR... 2002 -> A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Hindu Kush region of northern Afghanistan, causing widespread devastation. The disaster claimed more than 1,000 live

***THREAT BRIEF RELEASE*** #90 ///1118HRS/EST/25MAR26/CONUS/BARKSDALE-AFB/LOUISIANA/UNITED-STATES/US-UNABLE-TO-STOP-DRONE-SWARMS-OVER-BARKSDALE-AFB/// Location:   Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, United States. Threat: U.S. Unable to Stop Drone Swarms Over Barksdale AFB. Brief:   Legalinsurrection.com  - Legalinsurrection.com , " Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB), a major U.S. strategic bomber installation in northwest Louisiana, has just experienced an unusually serious se

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it family: whatever you call it, whoever you are... you need one."  - Jane Howard An American journalist, author, and educator. She worked at Life magazine from 1956 to 1972. She contributed articles to many publications and wrote several books; most well-known was her biography of Margaret Mead. Image Credit: “Clan Gregor Flag” by User: RolloTheLooter  is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . Source: https://commons.wikimedi

GENESIS Chapter 24 vv. 1-14 ~ A WIFE FOR ISAAC 1 Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in every way. 2 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who ruled over all that he owned, “Please place your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, 4 but you will go to my land and

HEBREWS Chapter 4 vv. 1-16 ~ THE BELIEVER'S REST 1 Therefore, let us fear, lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have fallen short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good news proclaimed to us, just as they also; but the word that was heard did not profit those who were not united with faith among those who heard. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest,” al

"Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format." - Frank Zappa An American composer, songwriter, guitarist, conductor, actor, satirist, filmmaker, and activist. Image credit:  Frank Zappa, 1970 by Dan Tsukroff, via Wikimedia Commons , license

In order to be prepared smartly, we must be situationally aware of any given threat that looms on the horizon and take the necessary steps to eliminate and/or mitigate those threats. For your situational awareness (FYSA), this column focuses on parts of the Original Northwest Territory to include the following states: Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Due to their strategic importance to the TBR family, we have chosen to add the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Our focus begins he

“The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats. We did that. And it doesn’t work. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. Instead of interdicting it, on the President’s orders, we blew it up. And it’ll happen again. Maybe it’s happening right now, I don’t know, but the point is the President of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations.” -

GENESIS Chapter 23 vv. 1-20 ~ SARAH'S DEATH AND BURIAL 1 And Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 3 Then Abraham rose from before his dead and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 “I am a sojourner and a foreign resident among you; give me a possession for a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” 5

“For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” - Winston Churchill A British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Image cred

The Quiet Edge | Nervous System Control and the Prepared Mind - In preparedness circles, one trait isn’t often discussed, but I believe it’s one of the most valuable assets a prepper can have. It isn’t gear, ammo, calories, or even skills--though all of those matter.... It’s nervous system control. I noticed it years ago, but only recently started paying attention to it deliberately. Sometimes when I’m cold enough that my teeth start chattering or my body begins to shiver, th

"On the seventh day we must think of the works that God did in six days: the children of God must call to remembrance what and how great are the benefits they have received the whole week — for which they must thank God, for which they must praise God, and by which they must learn God." - Heinrich Bullinger Successor to Zwingli, he helped shape Swiss Reformed theology and authored the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), widely adopted across Europe. Image credit:  Karl Joseph

"What is honor? Honor is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself...All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor." - Rob Roy MacGregor A Scottish Highland outlaw, cattleman, and later folk hero often called the “Scottish Robin Hood.” Image credit:  W.H. Worthington, Portrait of Rob Roy   (engraving, ca. 1820s). Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons (cropped and edited by blog author).