“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: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

13 And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings. 2 And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be...
Of peddle-files and pentagrams

Of peddle-files and pentagrams

The missiles and bombs flying around various hot zones in the world tend to drown out some of the consequential things happening around us. We had one rather important example of such a thing emerge recently – originating from within Israel, right before the country’s...
Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

Sunday Scripture: David’s Charge to Israel

28 David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and livestock of the king and his...
Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

Sunday Scripture: God Destroys Sodom

Seeing as we are right at the beginning of a month-long “celebration” of sin, debauchery, stupidity, and human excess, that the Western “elites” call – ironically enough – “Pride Month”, it is probably worth going back...
Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

Sunday Scripture: Prophecy Against Jeroboam

14 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me...
Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

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...
Broken, beaten, bloodied, and betrayed

Broken, beaten, bloodied, and betrayed

Pondering through the Scriptures this morning, I was much struck by the passages in all four canonical Gospels concerning Judas Iscariot, the one who ultimately betrayed Jesus. The grand sweep of the greatest story ever told contains many rich details, and it is...
The Crucifixion

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between...
Sunday Scripture: A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

Sunday Scripture: David and the Holy Bread

21 [a] Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?” 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a...