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Editorial
As I was about to voice an incensed personal put-down as payback for a friend’s recent unfriendliness, something different—and sweeter—came to me to say.
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Revolutionizing the world

Proving that we live solely in God’s world is going to require a commitment to a God-demonstrating revolution in thought.
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Image and Inspiration
Such tender beauty, Lord, from Thee
Is shed abroad o’er all the earth …
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Article

First, choose Spirit

What does our day look like if we go through it frequently reminding ourselves that there is no other Mind than God, Spirit?
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Poem

What defines you

You are 
because I AM. 
You are luminous 
because I am Light. 
You are ...
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Seeing as God sees

Seeing as God, Spirit, sees involves recognizing that the perfection of spiritual being is the only reality of existence and that anything discordant is the darkness, which must disappear in the light of God’s infinite goodness, here and now.
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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?
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Sentinel Watch
If you think spiritual healing is relegated to a certain time period (maybe biblical) or to special individuals (Jesus!), you’re going to want to tune in to this podcast episode. Host Jenny Sawyer talks with Lynn Jackson about how spiritual healing is alive and well—and reliable—today.
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Poem

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
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Article
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
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When Ricky got home, his hand did not hurt anymore.
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Testimony of Healing
I realized that healing results from seeing God’s goodness and our inseparability from that goodness, and from knowing that we are always experiencing it.
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Testimony of Healing
Discord is no part of God’s kingdom and therefore not real, so I knew I had the God-given authority to cast it out of thought, and I did so.
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Testimony of Healing

No unwelcome surprises

Praying for others with an unselfish motive calmed me and helped me to know that we are all safe and cared for by God. 
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Bible Lens

God

God’s people are strong witnesses to His omnipresence and sovereign power.
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Letters

Letters & Conversations

This testimony confirmed the gratitude I felt after having hung up on a phone call asking for my Medicare card number.
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It doesn’t matter how many are gathered together—whether “two or three” or many more. We all can experience the healing power of God as we pray for and with one another.
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Article
As long as we’re looking exclusively to divine Spirit, it doesn’t matter if God’s healing insights come as a series of subtle, quiet epiphanies or in a single, momentous blast.
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The main lesson I have taken from these situations is to humbly know who is really solving all problems.
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Looking for a cause?

When faced with a problem of some kind, we might ask, “Why did this happen to me?
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Back on the water

God’s messages, like the wind hitting the rigged sail, can move us forward.
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Testimony of Healing
I prayed to understand that sickness is not not part of my true, spiritual identity as God’s offspring. In three days, the blockage was expelled, and my breathing became normal. 
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This Week’s Featured Online Content
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?
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
If you think spiritual healing is relegated to a certain time period (maybe biblical) or to special individuals (Jesus!), you’re going to want to tune in to this podcast episode. Host Jenny Sawyer talks with Lynn Jackson about how spiritual healing is alive and well—and reliable—today.
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Poem

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
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Article
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
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Testimony of Healing

Healed of herniated disc symptoms

Over the next several days, fear gave way to trust. I was conscious of the fact that healing was inevitable.
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Testimony of Healing
This episode began on a Wednesday; by Sunday I was at church teaching Sunday School.
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Poem

Seek His face

“If I strive with earnest gaze, / to seek God’s face / I can see / in those I love …” Inspired by Psalm 105:4, read the rest of this Christian Science poem by James Walter.
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Bible Lens

Sacrament

In the Christly model, allegiance to God and His Son—and the loving regard for one another flowing from it—fulfil all the law.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

What a beautiful, bold, and unequivocal statement. Thank you!
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Why choose kindness?

Consider what might happen, individually and collectively, if we were to become conscious of God’s infinite love and the spiritual fact that nothing except Love and its effects are real.
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Article

Nothing to lose

We should boldly deny that we can be without anything we need, for to accept that we could be is to dishonor God, who ceaselessly provides for the welfare of His entire creation.
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Article
The divine message quickly came: “God never leaves us without a safety net.” All fear left me. I was safe, and I knew I could rely on that spiritual fact, despite not knowing how it would manifest itself.
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Article
The beauty that never fades is God’s gift to all of His children, and it brings to each heart a bright inner glow of love.
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Image and Inspiration
E’en the hour that darkest seemeth, Will His changeless goodness prove …
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

When the future is looming

At a crossroads in her life, this author felt like she had no idea what to do or where to go next. But she was about to find out that God hadn’t abandoned her.
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This Week’s Featured Online Content
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?
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
If you think spiritual healing is relegated to a certain time period (maybe biblical) or to special individuals (Jesus!), you’re going to want to tune in to this podcast episode. Host Jenny Sawyer talks with Lynn Jackson about how spiritual healing is alive and well—and reliable—today.
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Poem

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
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Article
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
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Testimony of Healing

Herniated disc healed

My wife bought Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy at a street fair. After it sat on our bookshelf for a while, I read it—cover to cover. I began to find answers to many questions.
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Testimony of Healing

Prayer and protection

I looked into the man’s eyes and knew that there was only one influence over him: God. In reality, he was God’s child, the pure and sinless man of His creation.
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Testimony of Healing
In three days, I was back to walking normally. After a week, all evidence of injury was gone.
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Poem

See divine Life

Look up, My child,
Away from the past,
See the beauty . . . 
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Bible Lens

God the Preserver of Man

Believers are to turn from pride and pretension to the meek trustfulness of a child.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

The statement “Hatred; damaging decisions; and the pollution of guilt, abuse, or stubborn will have no activity, voice, or impact because they do not abide in Love” stopped me in my mental tracks.
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Editorial
Christ awakens us to a new kind of life, the life we’ve always had as God’s child, and selfishness and sinful behavior give way to the lasting spiritual joy, dignity, and authority that comprise our real, sinless nature. 
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Article
I felt more confident that individual prayer uplifts and spiritualizes the world’s collective mental atmosphere and thus blesses humanity. 
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Article
Grief is not the price we pay for love but the false sense that comes from dark views of life and love as material and finite. 
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Article

Claim your inheritance

We claim our God-given inheritance by consistently acknowledging our status as God’s spiritual creation and disavowing any aspect of mortal, material selfhood.
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Kids
What a big double-blessing day we had because God’s love always ripples outward. Thank you, God!
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Testimony of Healing
I stopped fretting. I enjoyed my time with friends, my career, and my church work and cherished the present good God was giving me.
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This Week’s Featured Online Content
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?
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
If you think spiritual healing is relegated to a certain time period (maybe biblical) or to special individuals (Jesus!), you’re going to want to tune in to this podcast episode. Host Jenny Sawyer talks with Lynn Jackson about how spiritual healing is alive and well—and reliable—today.
ListenPreview
Poem

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
Read ListenPreview
Article
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
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Testimony of Healing

Muscle soreness gone

I realized my God-bestowed health and limitless activity. As a result, on Monday I was pain-free and able to participate in my normal activities for that day.
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Testimony of Healing

Healing of bronchiolitis

As we left the doctor’s office, my wife started to cry. At that moment I said to her, “There is a treatment—Christian Science treatment.”
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Bible Lens
Jesus chooses the mustard seed, with its tiny size and immense potential, to illustrate faith.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

Thank you for this spiritual “call to arms.
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There was no blame to assign; I had never left God’s care—and neither had anyone else.
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Article
Christian Science boldly states to the world that our true lives are found in Spirit. Those who cling to the popular belief that life resides in matter—that we are merely or largely flesh and blood—may doubt, even oppose, Christian Science. But that does not change its truthfulness or threaten its existence.
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Yielding to the truth that each of us is Love’s creation has increasingly enabled me—despite anyone’s devaluating actions and my reactions to them—to perceive God’s love for them and me, to acknowledge what that means God knows us to be, and to recognize that I can love. 
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Turning Points in Spiritual Growth
I made up my mind that I would stop thinking so much about myself and start considering how I could help others. As I began to put this into practice, remarkable things started to happen.
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Image and Inspiration
High in the heavens, eternal God, Thy goodness in full glory shines …
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
It was the day of her piano performance—in front of a judge!—and this teen felt full of nerves . . . until an unexpected message from God shifted her whole mindset. 
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This Week’s Featured Online Content
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?
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
If you think spiritual healing is relegated to a certain time period (maybe biblical) or to special individuals (Jesus!), you’re going to want to tune in to this podcast episode. Host Jenny Sawyer talks with Lynn Jackson about how spiritual healing is alive and well—and reliable—today.
ListenPreview
Poem

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
Read ListenPreview
Article
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
Read ListenPreview
Testimony of Healing

Tooth problem reversed

Everything about me, including this tooth and its root, is continually maintained by God and cannot deteriorate or die.
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Testimony of Healing

Back injury healed

I give full credit to God for this healing. I am grateful for the growing understanding of my unbroken relationship to Him that I gain from my continuing study of the Holy Bible and Science and Health. 
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Testimony of Healing

No more fear of public speaking

God was expressing good qualities through my son as the speaker, and He would also be expressing good through the audience, causing each one to love what God was doing and respond appropriately.
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Poem
Lambs follow their Shepherd, 
all needs supplied. 
Their rest they take unfettered, 
calmly satisfied ...
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Bible Lens

Christian Science

The book of Revelation describes a tree that offers universal access to healing and restoration.
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Letters

Letters & Conversations

Thank you for this spiritual “call to arms.
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