Then Saul---also known as Paul---was filled with the Holy Spirit; he looked straight at the magician
-Acts 13:9

Have you ever been stared at by the Holy Spirit? It is an experience not soon forgotten. The dividing edge of the Holy Spirit's gaze comes from grandmothers, spouses, preachers, children, the rich, the poor and whomever God chooses. In such a swath of holiness will be found no guile and no element of falsehood whatsoever. Read more

His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.
-Acts 28: 8-9Read more

As far as living arrangements are concerned, I've been in less comfortable places than military barracks, but not many. Open bay barracks are especially impersonal; cramped sleeping conditions, rampant theft and the obvious lack of privacy all work toward an experience most memorable. Still, people can make a home anywhere if necessary.

On one particular first century evening, Paul was in just such a place; Roman barracks to be precise. He was taken there for his own protection. Read more