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ANNOUNCING my Bible Lesson: A NEW 'FULL TEXT' EDITION TO ENGAGE YOUTH
"The Committee on Sunday School Lessons cannot give too much time and attention to their task, and should spare no research in the preparation of the Quarterly as an educational branch."
(Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 114)
We're very pleased to announce a new Web-based publication, starting in September 2006, called my Bible Lesson, a "full text" edition of the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons specifically designed for teen and young adult readers. my Bible Lesson includes the Lesson text, Bible notes and biographical information, quotes from Bible translations, timelines, word definitions, and questions—all designed to facilitate students' deeper learning and exploration of the Lesson.
Mary Baker Eddy was a lifelong student of the Holy Bible. Her discovery of Christian Science was the result of a lifetime of pondering the Scriptures and searching their spiritual meaning. As teacher, pastor, lecturer, and healer, she drew inspiration from the Bible constantly. Her establishment of these Bible Lessons as "an educational branch" of her Church nurtures our study and understanding of the Scriptures with correlative passages from the textbook she authored, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
Over the past several years the Board of Trustees, together with the Christian Science Board of Directors, has been giving special thought to making the Bible Lessons more accessible to wider and younger audiences. Recently, The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy, after consulting with young people and Sunday School teachers, published a new Study Edition of the Bible and Science and Health. my Bible Lesson, which is being published by the Trustees, is another step being taken to embrace younger readers, in accord with provisions of the Deed of Trust. "The Trustees shall employ such number of persons as they may deem necessary to prepare Bible Lessons or Lesson Sermons to be read in the Christian Science churches, the same to be published Quarterly as has heretofore been done by and in the name of the Christian Science Quarterly; and they may, in their discretion, change the name or style of such Quarterly publication as occasion may demand." Mary Baker Eddy, Deed of Trust Organizing The Christian Science Publishing Society, January 25, 1898, No. 7.7. Designed in collaboration with the Bible Lesson Committee, TMCYouth, and members in the Field, my Bible Lesson employs technology and study tools that enable readers to engage and interact with the Lesson on the Internet, a communications medium that young people are very comfortable using.
This is a high-graphics, digital-only product, in PDF format, which subscribers can choose to read online or download and print out. Each page points readers to the text of the Lesson and encourages further reading and study in the Bible and Science and Health.
my Bible Lesson is about making the ideas from the Bible Lesson practical in your own life. It was orginally designed by two Sunday School teachers and now joins a growing family of Bible Lesson products, which for over a century has connected students of Christian Science around the world, and continues today to support each reader's spiritual growth and ability to heal.
You are invited to preview six summer issues of my Bible Lesson without charge, beginning with the June 5–11 Bible Lesson, "God the Preserver of Man." The Web address is mybiblelesson.com. Also, for your convenience, a two-section sample of the July 3–July 9 Bible Lesson, "Sacrament," can be found on the following three pages.
We hope you will welcome this new member of the Bible Lesson family into your hearts and homes.
Board of Trustees, The Christian Science Publishing Society
July 3, 2006 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from HEIDI SKOK, ETHEL GREGORY EMMEL, DON SNYDER
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The Love that heals loneliness
MAIKE BYRD, CHILDREN'S EDITOR
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Loneliness—God has an answer for you
BY RON MANGELSDORF
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Turning 'alone' into 'all one'
BY DORA E. HENRY
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Lonely? Leave it to God
BY CAROL MATTHEWS-NICOLI
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THE MESSAGE was a stone's throw away
BY WENDY WILSON
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ANNOUNCING my Bible Lesson: A NEW 'FULL TEXT' EDITION TO ENGAGE YOUTH
Board of Trustees, The Christian Science Publishing Society
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You can be at home with God ANYWHERE
Blake Buxton
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THE MOST WONDERFUL JOB
DAWN MARIE CORNETT
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THE 'REAL' IN RELATIONSHIPS
VAL MINARD
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PRAYER ALERT: ANOTHER HURRICANE SEASON
GEORGE KRUSZ
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FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH, FRESH FOCUS ON HEALING, YOUTH OUTREACH
BY GREGORY M. LAMB STAFF WRITER OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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A FAMILY PRAYS FOR HEALING
JENNIFER ENID LE GRANGE with contributions from JACQUES PAUL LE GRANGE
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PRAYER OVERCOMES RASH AND BACK PAIN
ED LEEVER