“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: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,    “return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;13     and rend your hearts and not your garments.”Return to the Lord your God,    for he is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Soul Who Sins Shall Die

This week’s selection from Holy Writ comes courtesy of our good friend, The Male Brain, from the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament. A lot of “Christians” seem to think that the vengeful, wrathful God of the Old Testament is somehow different from...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Daniel Interprets the Handwriting

13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah. 14 I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods[e] is in you, and that light and...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: The Conversion of Saul

9 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while...
Sunday Scripture: Return to the Lord

Sunday Scripture: Increasing Corruption on the Earth

6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, for...