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Editorial

Stillness and hearing God’s voice

Lynn G. Jackson

The spiritual closet of prayer is a sacred shelter where we commune with God as Jacob did—face to face.
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You’re the effect of perfect Love

John Biggs

Even though my experience at that moment did not yet manifest perfect, God-given harmony, that didn’t mean that what I was learning in Christian Science Sunday School wasn’t true; it must mean instead that sticking with what I was learning could change my experience for the better.
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Same old story, brand new insights

Gretchen Newby

I’d asked God for a new idea, and He had abundantly answered my prayer!
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Image and inspiration

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what [the Lord] will say unto me.
—Habakkuk 2:1
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The arrival of the new year and its blessings

Douglas Figueiredo

God, Life, is eternal, and this sense of eternity unfolds in our thought day by day.
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A matter of fact

Wendy Mulhern

Evil is not a thing.
It’s just all the imagined
wrong answers2+2=4 is not dogged
by 2+2 as 7 ...
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

A quick healing during a hockey game

MacArthur Kline

After an injury during a hockey game, this teen quickly found himself back on the ice—thanks to prayer.
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Sentinel Watch

Will I ever be perfect?

With Tony Lobl

This week’s guest, Sentinel Watch’s very own Tony Lobl, shares the lessons he’s learned about the difference between striving for perfection and understanding our spiritual perfection—and why it’s important to make the distinction.
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Poem

God is All—right now, right here

Malissa Lakin-Watson

Shepherd, show me how to go; 
Tell me what I need to know. 

Move my tired feet along 
To the path where I belong. 

Give me …
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God parents us all

Jay Frost

Listening to messages from God helps stop me from feeling as though I have to be in control of every detail of my children’s lives and behavior, or that I might make a big, regrettable mistake. It also guides me to right actions as a parent.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Praying for a family in Gaza

Katelyn Cleland

 When this teen met a girl from Gaza, she knew she had to do something. But would her prayers make a difference?
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Testimony of Healing

No more fear or pain after a fall

Cathrine Hogg

I protested that God, infinite Mind, never punishes deeds of kindness and that there are no accidents in divine Mind, which is wholly good.
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Testimony of Healing

Ear obstruction dissolved

Fenna Corry

If we are busy expressing good and being kind, we can’t help but be filled up with good, so there is no room for anything other than good.
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Testimony of Healing

Healing of back pain

Debbie Peck

Life is the source of all action and is expressed in effortless, dynamic movement.
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Bible Lens

Sacrament

January 6–12, 2025

After the Master’s ascension, breaking bread became a precious symbol for his followers.
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Letters & Conversations

Cliff Wattley, Barbara Russell, Debi Brandt

This is a powerful and very timely editorial.
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Editorial

The ever-breaking news of salvation

Tony Lobl

What could be more compelling than the present possibility of Christian healing? This is news we should want to read!
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“The inward voice”

James Walter

The inward voice is less and less seen to be our own thinking and pondering and more and more understood to be the guiding voice of divine Love.
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God’s message at eventide

Barb Goodspeed Grant

Sun sinks west 
       at God’s behest, 
while I look east 
       my glorious feast 
              is pink—
like lemonade ...
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Embracing our communities in spiritual love

Gloria Cecilia Caro Valderrama

I became more conscious of God’s almighty power correcting whatever is unjust in the world, including in education and government.
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Image and Inspiration

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
—Proverbs 16:17
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Lose defensiveness, feel free

Sandy Graham

I was able to let go of my initial reaction. It felt so good to lose the anger, blame, and hurt and to embrace humility, trust, and Christlike love. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

A quick healing during a hockey game

MacArthur Kline

After an injury during a hockey game, this teen quickly found himself back on the ice—thanks to prayer.
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Sentinel Watch

Will I ever be perfect?

With Tony Lobl

This week’s guest, Sentinel Watch’s very own Tony Lobl, shares the lessons he’s learned about the difference between striving for perfection and understanding our spiritual perfection—and why it’s important to make the distinction.
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Poem

God is All—right now, right here

Malissa Lakin-Watson

Shepherd, show me how to go; 
Tell me what I need to know. 

Move my tired feet along 
To the path where I belong. 

Give me …
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God parents us all

Jay Frost

Listening to messages from God helps stop me from feeling as though I have to be in control of every detail of my children’s lives and behavior, or that I might make a big, regrettable mistake. It also guides me to right actions as a parent.
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How I found Christian Science

I had to find out for myself

John Simon

It’s my hope that seekers everywhere can discover Christian Science and grow in the understanding of God’s healing power as I did.
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Kids

My throat didn’t hurt anymore

Guadalupe

Thinking about how God is always with us, always taking care of us, and loving us makes me feel happy.
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Testimony of Healing

Knee injury healed

Julie Weed

Looking to Christ, the true idea of God, I was immediately assured of my eternal safety and joy. 
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Testimony of Healing

No more heart trouble

Shelly Richardson

The Christian Science practitioner reminded me that God is always reliable, and that spiritual Truth, God, and man as Truth’s reflection are uninvadable.
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Testimony of Healing

A provable Science

Kathie Bell

I looked at my finger later that evening and there was no evidence of a burn.
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Bible Lens

Life

January 13–19, 2025

The book of Revelation shows God to be omnipresent, not limited to a sacred space in a physical structure.
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Letters & Conversations

Astrid Leaf-Wright, Ellen White, Dan Ziskind, Laura Pearson

What a wonderful demonstration.
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Editorial

Following the star

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

God’s light shines on and for all of us, all the time.
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Christmastime goodwill ... always

Suzanne Riedel

Learning the nature of God as Love itself, as the divine Principle and law of good for all creation, leads us to realize that the love and peace and healing power that Jesus’ life and ministry modeled were given to us to be emulated.
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God holds Her child

Kit Cornell Kurtz

Christmas: dawning, opening, unfolding ...
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Honoring Christ through our lives

Mónica B. Esefer Passaglia

Every day, we can abandon a materialistic view of life and wholeheartedly honor Christ through lives filled with healing. 
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Image and Inspiration

Christ will be the beacon that will light our way.

—Enrique S. Turrall, English translation Mary Louise Bringle, Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430–603, Hymn No. 517, adapt. © CSBD

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HOW I FOUND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

My thinking about life shifted to a spiritual basis

Ronald R. Fontana

I realized with great conviction that if there was a God, He would never want His creation to suffer.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

A quick healing during a hockey game

MacArthur Kline

After an injury during a hockey game, this teen quickly found himself back on the ice—thanks to prayer.
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Sentinel Watch

Will I ever be perfect?

With Tony Lobl

This week’s guest, Sentinel Watch’s very own Tony Lobl, shares the lessons he’s learned about the difference between striving for perfection and understanding our spiritual perfection—and why it’s important to make the distinction.
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God is All—right now, right here

Malissa Lakin-Watson

Shepherd, show me how to go; 
Tell me what I need to know. 

Move my tired feet along 
To the path where I belong. 

Give me …
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God parents us all

Jay Frost

Listening to messages from God helps stop me from feeling as though I have to be in control of every detail of my children’s lives and behavior, or that I might make a big, regrettable mistake. It also guides me to right actions as a parent.
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From the Christian Science Board of Directors

A new member of the Christian Science Board of Directors

The Christian Science Board of Directors

An announcement about an appointment of a new member of the Christian Science Board of Directors: Elizabeth (Beth) Schaefer, CSB. Rich Evans, CSB, has decided to rotate off the Board.
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Kids

Celebrating Christmas . . . before Christmas!

Sentinel staff

Here’s a Christmas activity you can do with your brother or sister, or with a friend, parent, or grandparent.
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Testimony of Healing

A Christmas gift

Mary Valentine

From that time on, I had total freedom to swallow and talk. I felt so much joy.
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Discolored spot gone

Rhett Rinne

I realized that if God is all good and the only substance, then good qualities and flawless substance are all that I can express because I’m made in the image of God.
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Testimony of Healing

Able to hike again

Nancy New

I was instantly and completely freed of fear and its limitations. I felt safe and secure, surrounded by Love, and my mother and I were able to finish the hike to the summit with great joy.
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Bible Lens

Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

December 16–22, 2024

The Messiah was predicted to be a descendant of David who would bring salvation to everyone, even those considered sinners and outcasts.
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Christian Science

December 23–29, 2024

For Jesus’ followers, the Comforter guarantees spiritual guidance and protection.
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Letters & Conversations

Linda Noren, Kim C. Korinek, Jobie Townshend-Zellner

This poem was just what I needed.
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Editorial

“Where had the diseases gone?”

Jennifer McLaughlin

The truths in Science and Health, revealed by God, speak directly to each of us.
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Toolbox . . . or revelation of reality?

Madora Kibbe

We don’t use Christian Science to get what we want. We yield to the power of Love, God, because—more than anything else—we want to know what God is and the nature of His creation.
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Image and Inspiration

Lo, to our widening vision dawns
     The realm of Soul supreme,
Faith-lighted peaks of Spirit stand
     Revealed in morning’s beam.—Edith Gaddis Brewer, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 287, © CSBD
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How can “intractable” situations be resolved?

Maryann McKay

The consciousness of God as almighty good enables us to witness convincing proofs that even the most difficult and stubborn situations, when addressed through God-directed prayer, can be resolved. 
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How I Found Christian Science

I learned about God’s incredible love

Vienna McMurtry

My new view of myself prepared me for the reception of Christian Science, which gave me an even clearer understanding of myself as our divine Father’s loved child.
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Announcement

Rotation on the Board of Trustees and in other positions at the Mother Church

Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, The Christian Science Board of Directors

An announcement about a change on the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society as well as some new assignments being taken on by current employees of The Mother Church.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

A quick healing during a hockey game

MacArthur Kline

After an injury during a hockey game, this teen quickly found himself back on the ice—thanks to prayer.
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Sentinel Watch

Will I ever be perfect?

With Tony Lobl

This week’s guest, Sentinel Watch’s very own Tony Lobl, shares the lessons he’s learned about the difference between striving for perfection and understanding our spiritual perfection—and why it’s important to make the distinction.
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Poem

God is All—right now, right here

Malissa Lakin-Watson

Shepherd, show me how to go; 
Tell me what I need to know. 

Move my tired feet along 
To the path where I belong. 

Give me …
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God parents us all

Jay Frost

Listening to messages from God helps stop me from feeling as though I have to be in control of every detail of my children’s lives and behavior, or that I might make a big, regrettable mistake. It also guides me to right actions as a parent.
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Time

Bobby Lewis

Time, you are not the master of good
One alone holds the world in Her embrace ...
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Love is an active prayer

Beck Riedel

After an accident on a biking trip, this author discovered a way of praying that wasn’t just effective for him; it also allowed him to help someone else.
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Testimony of Healing

Eye redness quickly vanishes

Robert Pennamon

One day last year, I woke up with a bloodshot eye.
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Testimony of Healing

God’s law of harmony, always in operation

Claudia Honorato

I began to be more conscious of the fact that I am spiritual, since God is Spirit and everything in God’s universe expresses Him, so nothing could harm me. After a few hours I realized that there was no more pain.
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Testimony of Healing

Grateful for two healings

Lois Degler

Mary Baker Eddy often shared with people close to her how she prayed.
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Bible Lens

God

December 30, 2024–January 5, 2025

Christ Jesus’ command to repent demands a profound commitment to regeneration.
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Letters

Letters & Conversations

AJ Kiser, Linda Vara, Trudi Carter

This is a wonderful example of willingness to relinquish personal control in order to give God the opportunity to fulfill His promise.
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