When I was around ten years old, my siblings and I had the opportunity to visit a Christian Science Sunday School. I had attended several different denominational Sunday Schools with my cousins and friends, but none taught as Christian Science does that because God is perfect, His children are perfect. Even at that young age, […]
Misery and depression lifted Read Post »
“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). How many times must I have repeated this line from the Lord’s Prayer throughout the many decades since I was a student in Christian Science Sunday School! Yet the significance and healing power of those words were unfolded to me in very
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After decades of civil war, South Sudan attained independence in 2011. Originally from Kenya, I did humanitarian work in South Sudan for ten years before and after its independence, and the country became my second home. At times I faced life-threatening challenges, but out of compassion for the suffering people my organization served, I stayed
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From the August 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal In the early 1990s my family was able to bear witness to God’s unfailing care in the most trying of circumstances. I lived in Florida with my then husband and our two young children. I had been raised in Christian Science and had seen and
From the August 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal Each day brings added proofs that God is indeed “our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,” as the psalmist described (Psalms 46:1). This was evident last summer after I accidently deeply cut my foot on thick broken glass left outside a store
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ADAM H. DICKEY From the January 1916 issue of The Christian Science Journal Man lives by divine decree. He is created, governed, supported, and controlled in accord with the law of God. Law means or implies a rule that is established and maintained by power; that which possesses permanence and stability; that which is unchanging,
God’s Law of Adjustment Read Post »
BERNICE HOLLY HIGGINS What does it mean to take up the cross? It means following Christ Jesus by loving God with all your heart and mind. It means striving to express the divine nature with which man, God’s idea, is endowed. To express unselfed love is to take up the cross. The basis of life
Take up the cross! Must I? Read Post »
ROSE PRICE “Giving in to anger … violates God’s law of perfect harmony” Some people check an angry outburst by counting to ten. But to count the blessing of sonship with God can destroy even the tendency to give vent to anger. As a gradually developed emotion or as a sudden flare-up, anger is alien
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By Todd Eastin From the July 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal The chapter titled “Christian Science Practice” in the textbook of Christian Science is filled with helpful directives on how to heal through prayer. One of my favorites is on page 390: “Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon