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Quality of life: the radical difference Christ makes
People are concerned about their standard of living. They don't want to see the quality of life deteriorate for themselves or for their children. But given the giant debt many nations face, crises in health care, and unemployment, many people just hope to hold on to whatever good they have.
Instead of making do with a shortfall of hope, health, opportunity, joy, we should be seeing much fuller good in daily life. Our heavenly Father intends this for all His children. As Christ Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). Shouldn't we learn to look more consistently to God for that which makes life worth living? This is in line with His wishes: "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else" (Isa. 45:22).
How do we bring God's transforming power to bear on problems? By learning and employing in our lives the spiritual facts of God and man that Christ Jesus showed us. What we need to know to begin experiencing this Christ-power can be found in the Bible's spiritual meaning. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy helps acquaint us more fully with this message. It explores what the Master saw and proved of God's creation—that man is never other than whole and free, in possession now of God's infinite blessings.
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October 17, 1994 issue
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Quality of life: the radical difference Christ makes
Sharon Slaton Howell
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Letters to the press
Christine J. Herlinger
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Well able to heal
Donald Billman
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Challenges, spiritual growth, and love
Barbara Morris
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Name and nature
Hugh George Eccles
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"I bear them no ill will ..."
An interview with Ireland's Senator Gordon Wilson by contributing editor Hazel Joynes
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Preparing for seekers of Truth
Ulrich Hanisch
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Compassion and healing
William E. Moody
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City living without crime
Mary Metzner Trammell
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With profound gratitude I give this testimony of a healing...
Johanna Dietrich
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An acquaintance introduced me to Christian Science in...
Monica Lagerstedt Baldwin
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In the early 1980s, I began to attend Christian Science...
Sharon Pocus Black