“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Sunday Scripture: Report of the Spies

Sunday Scripture: Report of the Spies

25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed...
Sunday Scripture: Report of the Spies

Sunday Scripture:

3 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,    the oppressing city!2 She listens to no voice;    she accepts no correction.She does not trust in the Lord;    she does not draw near to her God.3 Her officials within her    are roaring lions;her judges are evening...
Sunday Scripture: Report of the Spies

Sunday Scripture: The Decree of Darius

6 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored. 2 And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record. 3 In the...
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Sunday Scripture: Paul’s Vision and His Thorn

12 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God...
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Sunday Scripture: Treasure in Jars of Clay

7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not...
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Sunday Scripture: The Lord’s Supper

17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I...
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Sunday Scripture: The Ministry of Reconciliation

11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer...
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Sunday Scripture: The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath

16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the...
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Sunday Scripture: The Law and Sin

7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the...
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Sunday Scripture: The Contrast of Wisdom and Folly

7 A good name is better than precious ointment,    and the day of death than the day of birth.2 It is better to go to the house of mourning    than to go to the house of feasting,for this is the end of all mankind,    and the living will lay it to heart.3 Sorrow is...