In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Our true stature in Christ

Christ Jesus, our beloved Master, embodied the perfect stature of man, God's image and likeness.
How vital is this moment! We can never again live a past moment, a past hour, or a past day.
Charles Dickens, a master of caricature and wit, has a wonderful story about laughter in his book Nicholas Nickleby.

The light of Christmastide

One winter when I was living in Eastern Europe, I had gone to a mountain resort for skiing.

The gift of gifts

How vividly the memory of treasured gifts stays with us.
"Joy to the world," we sing.

The daystar and peace

The discussions of the military defense system called "star wars" have caused me to think more deeply about the meaning of a particular star—the star associated with the Prince of Peace.

Arms filled with love

Christmas was always my favorite holiday.
Does joy sometimes seem to elude you?

What a gift: God's grace

Genesis tells of a traveler who stopped at a well outside a city in Mesopotamia.
The story of Daniel in the Old Testament tells of tangled factors leading to the sentence that he be thrown into a lions' den.

Moses and the saving Christ

Perhaps it was Shiphrah and Puah, the Hebrew midwives, who first broke the news that Pharaoh had ordered that all sons newly born to Hebrew mothers be killed at birth by the midwives.