This week's issue | August 25, 2025
Worthy of redemption?
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Editorial
When we embrace the salvation Jesus’ example offers and strive to live so as to express the goodness that is naturally and forever ours, the sins of our past cannot prevent the healing of today.
Article
The world will try to get us to drop our spiritual altitude for a merely political opinion on one side or the other. But a true understanding of progress compels us to stay the spiritual course, allowing only spiritual observations and conclusions to take root in our thinking.
Article
So who is lifted to God by divine Love’s healing message? Anyone who commits their heart to seeking a better understanding of God, who watches and listens for God’s high calling, and who devotes life’s moments to Him.
Poem
A little person raises
both arms up
To the big person with him.
It is a natural thing to do—
A gesture …
both arms up
To the big person with him.
It is a natural thing to do—
A gesture …
Article
Nehemiah, who was morally courageous, was a great leader who did remarkable things through relying on God. Like Nehemiah, we can seek to fulfill the purpose that God has for us.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
She would be the only Christian Scientist on a demanding summer wilderness adventure. How would she respond to the dangers they would face?
This Week’s Featured Online Content
Poem
Without a qualm,
a doubt, or fear,
we belong to
You, Father,
not to the world.
No matter the
picture, the news …
a doubt, or fear,
we belong to
You, Father,
not to the world.
No matter the
picture, the news …
Article
Every challenging situation is an opportunity to spiritualize our view.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
Facing a summer full of mental and physical challenges, this author relied on prayer to find healing at each turn.
Sentinel Watch
How do you deal with the unthinkable? There are so many different ways, and our guests today, Liz and Matthew Hammond, share how they’re thinking and praying in the aftermath of a huge loss in their family. And what they share is both touching—and healing.
Testimony of Healing
During a Christian Science
church service some years ago, I had an instantaneous healing of chronic stomach trouble.
Testimony of Healing
I noticed a jolting change in my thought. It felt as if my identity was separated from everything that wasn’t consistent with God’s reflection—as if anything based on material theories and hypotheses was be unable to touch my true identity.
Testimony of Healing
As I performed the solo, I concentrated on the inspiring, comforting words of the song rather than on analyzing how I sounded, and I worked to hear God’s voice more than my own.
Bible Lens
Wings are frequent metaphors for of divine protection and shelter in Scripture.
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