“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: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,    and apply your heart to my knowledge,18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,    if all of them are ready on your lips.19 That your trust may be in the Lord,    I have made them known to you today,...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord

5 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;    look, and see our disgrace!2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,    our homes to foreigners.3 We have become orphans, fatherless;    our mothers are like widows.4 We must pay for the water we drink;    the...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: Orderly Worship

26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. 27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: Persecution Will Come

16 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, 18 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: The Man of Lawlessness

2 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,[a]2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: Jonah’s Prayer

2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying,“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,    and he answered me;out of the belly of Sheol I cried,    and you heard my voice.3 For you cast me into the deep,    into the heart of the...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: The Resurrection

24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed...
Sunday Scripture: Words of the Wise

Sunday Scripture: The Triumphal Entry

21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with...