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Seeking solutions? Find Truth.

Tony Lobl

Divine Truth, or God, isn’t aloof from our human needs, but as we apprehend Truth, is practical in meeting them.
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The “mind of Christ” is yours!

Moriah Early-Manchester

We can rely less on personal effort and instead rest in the truth that the Mind of Christ is God and is ours, now and always, ushering in the light that dispels the darkness, releasing us all from rumination and bringing peace of mind and heart.
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In search of joy

Name Withheld

God was assuring me that our family would have what we needed. We could trust in our Father-Mother God’s care and provision. My fear was gone.
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How I found Christian Science

My journey to becoming a Christian Science nurse

Ina Brink

I took home several copies of The Herald of Christian Science from the Christian Science Reading Room. The testimonies of healing in the magazines inspired me so much that I realized everyone could perform such healings if we understood and applied these teachings.
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Thinking about God? You’re praying!

Blythe Evans

As clear thinkers, we are clear pray-ers, and we can see the results of our prayers in our lives.
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Testimony of Healing

Healing of ear pain

Ingrid Monsalve Hernández

This experience left me with valuable lessons, one of which is that a truth, even if not fully understood, neutralizes the error of disease or inharmony that seems so real to us.
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Love’s embrace

Bruce Butterfield

Whenever clouds 
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And tumult brings
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Resist dismay to see aright …
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The watchfulness that brings peace

Karen Neff

We all want peace in our lives and the world, and Christian Science teaches that to find that peace, it is essential to watch our thoughts as Christ Jesus taught when he said, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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This book healed me: On fire with the Word

With Barry Huff

This week’s guest, Barry Huff, shares just how relevant the stories in the Bible are today, and how the book is filled with inspiring ideas that can address even the biggest challenges.
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Testimony of Healing

Rupture between neighbors healed

Eliana Cerviño

There were breakthrough moments when I was able to see my neighbor and his wife as God’s children—as loved and filled only with love—the way God sees them.
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Praying for the world dispels exhaustion

Kristie Savey Marinello

As the day went on, I was not feeling any better. Then, it occurred to me that I could pray for the world, especially those who are engaged in conflicts and other severe situations.
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Across lakes, into a kingdom, I reach out my hand to clasp yours, with this silent benediction: May the kingdom of heaven come in each of your hearts!
—Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, p. 143
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Man

September 2–8, 2024

“Born of God” illustrates the inherent nature of God’s children—the Godlikeness that excludes the possibility of sin.
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Letters

Trudi Carter, John Cartwright, Bob Minnocci

This author’s beautiful and healing expression of divine Love proves that man is truly the image and likeness of God.
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Not enough time?

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

There is always time to pray, even when it feels as though there’s not.
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We need church—and it needs us

Fenna Corry

The usher didn’t miss a beat and warmly invited me in without any other comment. It turned out that I very much needed the atmosphere of peace I felt at the service that morning, and I was very grateful that I was a welcome visitor.
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How precious also are 
thy thoughts unto me, O God! 
how great is the sum of them! 
If I should count them, 
they are more in number 
than the sand. —Psalms 139:17, 18
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What should I do now?

Russ Gerber

It’s natural for each of us to hear and follow divine direction when we realize that we’re never separated from its source—the infinite, all-loving, and all-good Mind, God.
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Right now

Kim Haig

The veil of gloom has lifted,
so clearly I can see 
no unhappy thought or woe …
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Burned out or fired up?

Leide Lessa

By paying attention to God’s healing messages, I understood that neither burnout nor a sleep disorder is any part of God or His creation. Why? Because God, divine Mind, is the inexhaustible source of all movement, energy, and intelligence—and our source as well.
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Love’s embrace

Bruce Butterfield

Whenever clouds 
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And tumult brings
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Resist dismay to see aright …
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The watchfulness that brings peace

Karen Neff

We all want peace in our lives and the world, and Christian Science teaches that to find that peace, it is essential to watch our thoughts as Christ Jesus taught when he said, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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This book healed me: On fire with the Word

With Barry Huff

This week’s guest, Barry Huff, shares just how relevant the stories in the Bible are today, and how the book is filled with inspiring ideas that can address even the biggest challenges.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

God’s guidance during my travels

Isabel Clark

I wasn’t helpless. I’ve known since I was a little kid that I can always turn to God for help.
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Testimony of Healing

Reaction to raw honey reversed

Catherine de Jocas

I checked on my daughter several times during the night, and she slept peacefully with no trouble whatsoever. All symptoms disappeared overnight.
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Testimony of Healing

Lump healed

David Taillefer

By the end of the day, I felt the conviction that God alone governs and maintains my being and that nothing else has authority and influence. I felt clearly that in no moment had error ever appeared in my true, spiritual life.
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Love overcomes grief

Gordon Sass

Early one morning while I was studying the Bible Lesson, a tangible feeling of love filled our home. I knew that this came from God, who is divine Love. I stopped and simply reveled in this experience, which was completely new to me.
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Bible Lens

Substance

September 9–15, 2024

The poor in spirit are seen as those humbly open to God’s Word.
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Letters & Conversations

Sue Knight, David Long, Dwight Henneberger

We love hearing from readers. Here’s the conversation this week.
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Who needs the Bible, anyway?

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

The Bible has a proven healing record. The spiritual sense of its words speaks to the hearts of individuals across time, across languages, across cultures.
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Where do we place our trust?

Madora Kibbe

The healing came, not through human will or by “powering through,” but with trust.
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Employment, ethics, and putting God first

Richard Nisley

With my improved understanding of God, I could face these accusations without fear.
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Get off the hamster wheel

Marietta Stofer

In our prayers, we must direct our gaze to what is divinely true—to what is true about God and about us as His beloved reflection—not to what seems to be wrong.
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How I Found Christian Science

My first healing

Marshall Reddick

I was on the road to understanding that Science and Health had the healing answers to any problems I might face in the future.
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Do prayer and exercise go together?

John Biggs

I’d discovered that my joy, my strength, my capacity were all sourced in God, who is certain and sure.
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Love’s embrace

Bruce Butterfield

Whenever clouds 
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And tumult brings
     a saddened tear,
Resist dismay to see aright …
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The watchfulness that brings peace

Karen Neff

We all want peace in our lives and the world, and Christian Science teaches that to find that peace, it is essential to watch our thoughts as Christ Jesus taught when he said, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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This book healed me: On fire with the Word

With Barry Huff

This week’s guest, Barry Huff, shares just how relevant the stories in the Bible are today, and how the book is filled with inspiring ideas that can address even the biggest challenges.
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Image and Inspiration

Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more
For olden time and holier shore:
God’s love and blessing, then and there,
Are now and here and everywhere.
—John Greenleaf Whittier 
    Christian Science Hymnal, No. 238 
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Testimony of Healing

Finding restoration and refreshment in God

Eva Regina Scherer do Nascimento

The normal mobility of my hands and arms was restored, and I had energy and vitality in carrying out tasks. I even felt freer and better than before this whole experience.
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Severe burns healed

Adriana Mora

I felt it was Christ, which Jesus embodied, that was strengthening me and enabling me to rely on God for healing. Christ, Truth, was the solid, spiritual foundation on which I was standing, and it would not fail me.
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Ankle injury gone

Susan Sherwood

Understanding that God’s creation is spiritual and perfect, I denied the false suggestion that I was material and could be injured. As I held to these truths, within an hour the pain suddenly left, and I was able to walk without limping.
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Soul

August 12–18, 2024

To bless God’s holy name is to humbly revere His nature—to express wholehearted gratitude for His goodness and love.
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Letters & Conversations

Paul White, Robert Dillon, Bonnie Shaver

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Finding the real cause

Susan Stark

Christ, God’s message of Truth and Love, comes to our receptive hearts to take away our fears and break the mistaken association between material cause and effect.
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Filled up or fulfilled?

Karen Neff

I had everything going for me—health, a successful business, companionship, family, travel, etc. Yet I felt emptiness. It was heartbreaking because I didn’t know what to do about the darkness that haunted me or even why it was there.
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. . . a rose, the smile of God . . .
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 175
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“You have a listening to do”

Pamela McKnight

The sense of loss and the burden and fear of thinking I had to do this all on my own began to lift. I could turn to God, divine Love, as my dear Parent, to guide me.
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How I found Christian Science

My thirst for Truth led me

Douglas Figueiredo

Our family members and friends noticed the big difference in our family, through our tranquil attitude. I understand this to be due to the fact that we are constantly conscious of the truth governing us and the whole universe.
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Prepared to heal

Eric Nager

We need to be spiritually prepared so we are ready at any moment to defend our or another’s right to health and harmony.
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Love’s embrace

Bruce Butterfield

Whenever clouds 
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And tumult brings
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Resist dismay to see aright …
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The watchfulness that brings peace

Karen Neff

We all want peace in our lives and the world, and Christian Science teaches that to find that peace, it is essential to watch our thoughts as Christ Jesus taught when he said, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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This book healed me: On fire with the Word

With Barry Huff

This week’s guest, Barry Huff, shares just how relevant the stories in the Bible are today, and how the book is filled with inspiring ideas that can address even the biggest challenges.
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I had a healing one night

Westley

God is good, so He couldn’t make anything bad like coughing or illness. He makes only good.
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Testimony of Healing

Nausea and dizziness overcome

Lisa Jasper

I rejoiced over this healing—especially the realization that no one is left out of God’s loving care. 
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Dog freed from paralysis

Rosalinda Johnson

After we’d prayed, by the next day or the day after, our dog was running up and down the stairs as she always had.
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Urinary pain gone

Maitreyee Dutta

Within two days, I was completely free from all symptoms, and they have not returned.
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Incandescence

Kit Cornell Kurtz

Sparkle
little reflection.
See how you shimmer 
with Spirit’s light …

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Mind

August 19–25, 2024

God’s tabernacle or presence with His people is a comforting theme throughout Scripture.
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Letters & Conversations

Yasmin Merchant, Barry Persky, Mona Mellon

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A structure designed for healing

Deborah Huebsch

The structure of Church was provided by the eager hearts of everyone present. It was a collective demonstration of spiritual receptivity, each one contributing to the whole.
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What does the future hold?

Mark Swinney

Under God’s authority, we have the right to stand up to false prophecies about the future suffering of God’s children. As we do so, we not only help ourselves but embrace and support everyone’s God-given right to live in health and joy.
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What chased the clouds away? 
’Twas Love whose finger traced aloud 
A bow of promise on the cloud.                                 —Mary Baker Eddy
                                    Poems, p. 7
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Turning Points in Spiritual Growth

Reconnecting with Christian Science

Robert Craig McManigal

There were no aftereffects from the fall. I’d been completely healed by God. 
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Just good deeds or genuine love?

Yvonne Renoult

We can abandon any sense of having our own personal ability or inability to forgive and turn to divine Love, the source of all forgiveness. I began to pray in this way every time this acquaintance came to thought.
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A week full of healing

Sara Lang

I was overwhelmed by this loving divine presence and basked in it as I held the puppy. 
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Love’s embrace

Bruce Butterfield

Whenever clouds 
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And tumult brings
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Resist dismay to see aright …
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The watchfulness that brings peace

Karen Neff

We all want peace in our lives and the world, and Christian Science teaches that to find that peace, it is essential to watch our thoughts as Christ Jesus taught when he said, “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37).
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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This book healed me: On fire with the Word

With Barry Huff

This week’s guest, Barry Huff, shares just how relevant the stories in the Bible are today, and how the book is filled with inspiring ideas that can address even the biggest challenges.
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Testimony of Healing

Freed from altitude and heat sickness

Suzanne Riedel

I recognized that the divine law governing free and joyous existence is the only law and is the same at sea level as it is at 13,000 feet and the same regardless of temperature.
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God’s justice prevails

Teresinha Santos

Taking a higher, spiritual view of everything and everyone involved, I denied the lie that my son had been negligent in demonstrating generosity toward the tenants and could be hurt or disadvantaged for an act of kindness.
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Healing of sudden illness

Yasuko Yoshikawa

Within half an hour, the nausea subsided and I was able to walk, even though earlier I could not walk at all. I left the hospital without any tests or treatment.
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Go deeper

Nancy Humphrey Case

Go deeper, dear seeker of Truth.
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Christ Jesus

August 26–September 1, 2024

Jesus assures his listeners that God’s faithful will endure tribulation and conquer it.
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Letters & Conversations

Janine Labak, Daniel Hicks

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