Can we break the chains of materialism?
Explore how prayer brings freedom

[Point Loma, San Diego]: What if the world we see and feel around us were an illusion? We live in a world where advertising creates desire for material things. But materialism goes deeper. Can we free ourselves not only from the hypnotism of advertising, but from all dependence on a matter world? International speaker John Tyler says, “We can free ourselves from these influences! I’ve found in my own life that, through prayer and active love, we can radically change our lives.”

A practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing, Tyler will present a free interactive talk titled “Can we break the chains of materialism?” on [Saturday July 30, 2:30pm, at Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, 2340 Chatsworth Blvd., San Diego, CA 92106].

Tyler’s ideas are based on the Bible, the original source book on Christian healing, along with the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, a book of universally applicable ideas on practical spirituality. This talk will focus on prayer-based action. Using scenes and ideas from the film “Matrix” as a metaphor, Tyler shows how we can free ourselves from the straightjacket of materialistic thinking. He illustrates this road to freedom with examples of physical and other healings.

Tyler, a long-time activist for civil rights, has degrees from both Princeton University and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, and taught political science at Princeton and the University of Pittsburgh, before becoming a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing. He now travels internationally speaking about the power of prayer to bring peace, health, and healing in people’s lives.

Saturday, July 30 10:15 to noon

Maggie talk PDF

Please join us today at 4 PM for our last church service of this summer. Our services in the garden will resume  again on Sunday, September 11th.  Our Reading Room will remain open during the summer months.  Please check this website for hours of operation.  Our solo today will be performed by Tiona Pecaut.

Click here to hear her sing an earlier solo

Please join us for our 4:00 church service.  Last week we had an inspiring solo by Ms Pecaut which you can listen to here

We will not be having our Third Thursday Garden music series for the months of July, August, and September.  We will start up again in October. Please join us for our next concert on October 20th at 7:30. Please check back later to find out who our local artist will be.

We will not be having Church services on July 31 through September 4.   But our Reading Room will be open during the summer.  Please check this website for hours of operation

Here is review of some of the great music we’ve had so far this year.

Come today at 4:00 to our out door service in our garden and join Tiona and our congregation for the Bible lesson on God.

In celebration of Memorial Day, less than a handful of my neighbors gathered for a barbecue lunch. All of us being church members, the topic of conversation was largely how to pray for our world and country. And of course we thoroughly enjoyed salads of all kinds and fresh watermelon along with our meal, and cookies for dessert.

As I stashed my plateful of left overs onto a refrigerator shelf, it occurred to me that, as well as remembering soldiers who fought with three dimensional weapons, I need to honor those soldiers who have fought with weapons “mighty through God” – and let their examples inspire my current prayerful action. Some of these scholar-soldiers and translators lost their lives because they translated the Bible into our mother tongue and distributed it to the people. Their sacrifice is an underpinning of the freedom of religion that we enjoy in this country.

Here is a recording from the journal “The Biblical World” that tells their story.

“Martyrs for the English Bible”

Their bravery and sacrifice has taken God’s Word out of the hands of a few and into the reach of all. I know I can better appreciate what they did by simply making more room for the truth of that Word in my every day thought and actions. I hope that their sacrifice may inspire others to appreciate their direct line to our Creator through His-Her Word in the Scriptures.

This freedom of thought that Tyndale and others fought for,
is also seen in an article published in another journal*, less than thirty years after “Martyrs for the English Bible” (recorded above). The Christian Science Journal was “designed to put on record the divine Science of Truth” – Mary Baker Eddy, first editor of the CS Journal, and the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
My. 353:11-12 designed (to;)

Visitors to our Christian Science Reading Room often ask “Why put ‘Science’ with ‘Christian’?” Science is used because God is Love, and divine Love is the motivational power, or divine law, that operates for the benefit of all. Divine Love is as constant as a law in its blessing, which makes it a divine Principle. Christianity is based on divine Love; since divine Love is a Principle, Mary Baker Eddy, united ‘Christian’ with ‘Science’. We can exercise the highest freedom of thought, and freedom of religion, when we think and act from the basis of Principle, or divine Love, first and foremost.

Jobie Townshend-Zellner

* The link to this article on Christian Science is below:

NULLIFYING THE CLAIMS OF LEVI
By John Randall Dunn
From the February 1946 issue of The Christian Science Journal

http://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1946/2/64-2/nullifying-the-claims-of-levi

Please note: This will be our last music event for the summer.  We will start up again in September.  Please check back here for updates, or enter your email address into the subscribe box in the side bar on the right to receive infomation and notices.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING IN AFRICA

You’re Invited to a Free Talk by Mark Ruble

HE HAS TAKEN YEARLY TRIPS TO AFRICA SINCE 1999 AT THE REQUEST OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN ZAMBIA AND IS A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER IN ZIMBABWE AND ZAMBIA FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS

Wednesday, June 8, at 1:15 PM right after our testimonial meeting at Noon