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Safe in the storm

Joyce Heard Hawes

When the hurricane was just ten miles offshore, it suddenly—some said miraculously—lifted up and never touched land. There was much talk in our area about how prayer had protected us all from danger.

TeenConnect: Q&A

Do I have to be perfect to have a healing?

Deborah Huebsch

Does having a healing depend on us living perfect lives, never making a single mistake or doing anything wrong? Hear from this author about why we can be healed no matter what, but why it’s also natural to want to do the right thing.

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Henry and the knights

Virginia Anders

His aunt explained that one way to know God is through the names for God that you can find in the Bible and in a book called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. She said that he could think of each name for God sort of like a knight that was always with him and protecting him.

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A community of healers, open to sincere seekers

Daniel Mfumu Mawonzi

At its core, the opportunity to take Primary class instruction is an opportunity to join a community of healers where men and women support each other and humanity at large through prayer.

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Image and Inspiration

This week’s photographic inspiration and related text.

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Don’t skip the “meat and potatoes”

Debra Brandt

I found it easier to read an article here and there in the Sentinel than to study the Bible Lesson daily. All of that changed one semester when I became so ill with a debilitating sore throat, fatigue, and weakness that I could not attend classes.

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Infinitely worthy in God’s eyes

Karen Neff

When I expressed love to others instead of looking to others to love me, I lost the fear of being judged. God was revealing to me my true nature as His faultless reflection, secure in His—infinite Love’s—keeping.

TeenConnect: Turning Point

God really was with me

Fredrick Higgins

I was able to make my way back to the parking lot, feeling as though I had just witnessed a miracle. But I knew from Sunday School that it hadn’t been a miracle; it had been proof of God’s saving presence and power.

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My expectation of good was explained

James Bennett

As my future wife explained the concept of material existence as an incorrect understanding of a good God’s creation, I was intrigued enough to try to understand what she was talking about.

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When you think of God as Soul

Caryl Emra Farkas

To think of God as Soul instead of imagining soul as personal and subject to the vagaries of material conditions is to see kindness, provision, inspiration—all sorts of spiritual resources—as present, even when those good gifts might not seem immediately apparent.