In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

When I felt depressed during lockdown

Olivia Scott

Cut off from friends and family during the pandemic, this teen found herself slipping into constant unhappiness with no clear way out. But was her happiness really at the mercy of her circumstances? A conversation with her mom brought new spiritual insights.

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‘Lo, I am with you alway’

Name Withheld

It was my desire not only to live a moral, God-centered life, but also to maintain honor and respect for my family back in the United States.

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Climbing my gratitude ladder

Teddy

Every time I express gratitude I feel closer to God.

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Dispelling the fear of money

Jasmine Birtles

God’s blessing isn’t something up in the sky, a rarefied goodness that you can get only if you’re a bit of a saint. It’s here. It’s genuine. It’s solid. And it has expression in a way that makes sense to us at this moment.

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How you can help end the pandemic

Lyle Young

Through understanding the supremacy of God and our divine right to overcome illness, including this pandemic, we can prove the sheer rightness—indeed the sheer all-powerful reality—of harmony, including health and holiness.

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Following Jesus through faith

Andrea McCormick

Jesus wanted to know only what God knew. He wanted to see only what God saw. We, too, can experience healing or saving when we have these desires.

TeenConnect: Your Healings

I didn’t need to have my wisdom teeth removed.

Phoebe

When the dentist told her that she had no choice but to have her wisdom teeth extracted, this high school student picked a different route. Her choice? Call a Christian Science practitioner and pray together—with results that surprised the dentist.

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Love that can transform a life

Lauren Hippert

That perfect love that Christ Jesus demonstrated is already within each of us, because we are made in the image of God. It is our true nature to love, because we are the image of Love.

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Self-immolation: Purifying, not condemning, self

William Whittenbury

When we find that unspiritual impressions have built up in thought, we can “turn on the self-cleaning oven” of self-immolation and burn away those false conceptions, all stemming from the belief in a selfhood apart from God.

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Your defense against manipulation

Jan Keeler Vincent

There is no need to manipulate. Instead we can enjoy witnessing God’s perfect timing, direction, control, and influence.

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Can prayer stop a bully?

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

Rather than retaliating with our own bullying behavior, my friends and I, through our prayers, were responding with the healing love Jesus taught.

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A song can be a prayer

Emma Kieran Schaefer

God made each of us so good—actually Godlike—and I really love to bring that out in my songs.