“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.”

Domain Query: Genetics is NOT destiny

Domain Query: Genetics is NOT destiny

I had a rather odd drive-by comment from someone who calls himself Genetics is destiny on that post from a while back about Billzebub the Gates’s imploded marriage with MELinda the Dude. (For some reason, that is now THE most popular poast I’ve ever...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,    and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”20 Where is the one who is...
Didactic Mind, Ep 86: The Call to Arms

Didactic Mind, Ep 86: The Call to Arms

This week’s episode of Didactic Mind is all about embracing the conflict that we find ourselves embroiled in – physically, mentally, and most importantly, spiritually. I talk about the world we are living in right now, built on lies as it is, and I walk...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: A Call to Persevere

17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They[f] said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause...
Desperately dodging the blindingly obvious

Desperately dodging the blindingly obvious

LRFotS Robert W passed on a video to me via a comment to this week’s Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer that is both deeply engaging and very thought-provoking. It concerns attempts by physicists to find a new and tractable approach to that hoary old chestnut,...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: The Jerusalem Council

15 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: That You May Know

13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us...
Sunday Scripture: Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Sunday Scripture: The Sun Stands Still

10 As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction,[a] doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among...