This Sunday, November 1st, at 4:00 Justin Froese will be performing our music for our service along with singing the solo. It’s also Daylight savings time so fall back with your clocks an hour!
Last Sunday’s Solo was performed by Jen Hajj and you can watch some clips below.
Tomorrow is Halloween and we will be participating in the downtown Encinitas Safe Trick-or-treat
Come join the fun at the reading room around 5 PM and help us give out treats to the kids. Last year we had over 1000 visitors.
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This Sunday, October 25th, we are welcoming back Jen Haji who will be soloing for us and singing Tranquility
The lesson being read this week is on the subject of “Probation After Death“.
Come join us for our 4:00 pm service.
The following Sunday, November 1st, Justin Froese will be playing his guitar and soloing for us
when our Bible lesson will be on “Everlasting Punishment” at our 4:00 pm service.
(keep in mind that this will be the first day of daylight savings time so fall back one hour!)
Join Dr. Kinnamon, former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches and author of several books on Christian unity, for a discussion with time for questions and honest sharing. Dr. Kinnamon has been involved in dialogue with The Mother Church (and was a guest speaker there) about how Christian Science has an important place in the wider Christian community. It’s sure to be a special evening!
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Original post by Keith Wommack – Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Health, Thought and Spirituality
) Stop being critical. Criticism closes your eyes to the good that has always been yours. Critical states of thought lead to critical mistakes, as well as cause critical states of the body.
2) Stop keeping score. It is not what others do but how much divine goodness you express that will ultimately satisfy you.
3) Stop trying to prove you are right. Instead of telling others you are right and they are wrong, live what is right and your life will begin to sparkle.
4) Start forgiving. Forgiveness means starting over with love. It wipes the slate clean. Forgive yourself and others. Forgiving others is about your peace of mind, not about absolving someone else’s responsibility for wrongdoing.
5) Be grateful. Be grateful for everything good in your relationships and in your home. Gratitude completes the circuit in healing. It awakens you to the magnitude of your divine life. Pain and gratitude are incompatible.
6) Be honest. Honesty allows you to be at peace, even in the middle of unrest. It keeps you strong. “Honesty is spiritual power. Dishonesty is human weakness, which forfeits divine help.” (Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures)
– Keith Wommack is a Syndicated Columnist, Christian Science practitioner and teacher, husband, and step-dad. He has been described as a spiritual spur (since every horse needs a little nudge now and then). Keith’s columns originate at: KeithWommack.com
Sunday, October4 at 2:00p.m.
Poway/Rancho Bernardo church
16315 Pomerado Rd.
Clara Germani grew up in El Centro,
California and started her career straight
out of the University of Southern California, as a court reporter
for City News Service in Los Angeles, and then as a police beat
reporter for The Orange County Register. She is currently
managing editor of the New England Center for Investigative
Reporting – a nonprot news partnership between the Boston
University journalism school and the WGBH public radio station.
She spent most of her 35-year newspaper career with The
Christian Science Monitor, most recently as a senior editor managing
in-depth cover stories.
She guided numerous award winning projects for the Monitor.
Germani also spent ve years with The Baltimore Sun as
assistant national editor and as correspondent in Moscow,
where she traveled extensively covering everything from
indigenous reindeer herders in Arctic Siberia to the war in
Chechnya . She has taught numerous writing and editing
workshops as well as a journalism course at Emerson College.
She is married to the Monitor’s editor in chief, Marshall
Ingwerson, and they have a teenage daughter.
Great examples of optimistic reporting that show how we have solved many global world problems such as ozone holes and smog; and that we are capable of meeting our current and future challenges amidst the fear mongering of the opposing polarized naysayers who try to capitalize on our fears.
In an audio cast: Many Voices, One Foundation—The Public History of Christian Science, our Reading Room Librarian, Jobina Townsend Zellner, comments about the development of our church movement and our structure.
You can go to the nine minute mark of the June 3, 2015 audio cast by clicking here, and you will hear what was written by her about our recent history:
On June 13, 2015 the Mary Baker Eddy Library did a follow-up to the Library’s Annual Meeting program held the previous weekend. Staff members Jonathon Eder, Steve Graham, Mike Hamilton, and Judy Huenneke discuss their work in researching and creating the June 6 event “Building on the foundation of Christ-healing: From the Collections at The Mary Baker Eddy Library.”
Here is an opportunity to learn more about the letters and other documents that Mary Baker Eddy wrote or dictated, as well as additional materials that formed the basis for the program. As part of the broadcast, listeners are encouraged to submit their thoughts about “building on the foundation of Christ-healing,” including their own personal, family, and community histories.
Also of note, Jonathon, Judy, and Mike participated in an interview that appeared in the April 2015 Christian Science Journal—”The rich history of Christian Science”, in which they brought out different dimensions of the ongoing story of Christian Science and its healing impact on individuals and in the world.
Keitha, a mother and grandmother, and a local Journal-listed Christian Science Practitioner, shares her insights on “how to pray for the children of the world” and protect them.
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When my first grandchild was three months old, I had the pleasure of taking care of him for about ten days. I had forgotten what it was like to be immersed in caring for such a pure and precious child, whom I knew to be truly an idea of God. It really was exalting. I found I didn’t want to have a thought, word, or action that wasn’t worthy of coming into his experience.
For example, when I gave Mikayel a bottle during the evening news, it wasn’t long before I turned off the TV. It was just too difficult to feed him and edit out reports of violence and all those commercials depicting disease and drugs. Not knowing how much he was capable of taking in, I decided that TV could wait until he had some tools with which to defend himself.
Once, while carrying Mikayel, I raised my voice at one of the dogs to get him to stop doing something. That made the baby cry. It helped me realize we don’t come into this world conditioned to startling words or loud noises. It helped me to question why I thought there weren’t alternatives to such jarring actions.
All of this was reminiscent of my very first days of motherhood. I remember the strong desire that welled up inside me to be the best person I could be so that a suitable model would be presented to my child. I wasn’t a Christian Scientist then, but in a few short years I read the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and came across this sentence: “Nothing unworthy of perpetuity should be transmitted to children” (p. 61). The sentence had a familiar feel to it, although I was reading it for the first time.
That’s the way it is with an idea that comes from God. It has always been in divine Mind and is something we all innately know, even before we are particularly conscious of it or choose to be governed by it. And we can effectively support the children of the world and their caregivers by praying to bring out the correct idea of parenting that already exists in man’s true consciousness. Each of us, as the complete reflection of God, includes all the rightful attributes of our divine Parent (see Genesis 1:26, 27)—and this fact, when understood and put into practice, makes a good parent.
Seeing everyone as God’s reflection as we pray for mankind, we can help every parent and guardian of every child by acknowledging that the perfect qualities of our Father-Mother God are being expressed through each idea of His creation. Mothering and comforting ministrations are divinely natural to every individual charged with the care of a child.
The fatherhood and motherhood of God, reflected in God’s idea, man, are never absent, never overridden by false concepts such as exploitation, domination, or lack of compassion. We can know with deep conviction that everyone is, in reality, created to express the unselfed love so important in caring for children. Our recognition of this truth helps support the innate ability of all mankind to respond selflessly when called upon to care for those innocent ones, who express such childlike qualities as trust, optimism, and goodness. Our youth, after all, are the budding citizens of our future world, and worthy of our utmost attention and very best efforts.
The Glossary of the Christian Science textbook referenced above defines children in part this way: “The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love” (p. 582). Life, Truth, and Love are capitalized because they are synonyms for God. Can mankind do less than honor and cherish children, and see them as precious spiritual ideas who are linked to God, as we all truly are?
Each of us, as the complete reflection of God, includes all the rightful attributes of our divine Parent.
Is it possible that our prayers can have an effect on the thought of others and help uplift world consciousness about the care of children? Years ago I was shown the need to pray about this issue and was given evidence of the effectiveness of such prayer. With my toddler daughter in a stroller, I was shopping one Sunday afternoon in a discount department store. A young woman with a little boy who looked to be about three years old was also shopping while pushing a stroller. They came to my attention because, although it appeared that she was the mother of the child, she was in a very matter-of-fact way making hateful remarks to him and calling him names.
The woman’s remarks bothered me greatly, and I moved away so my child wouldn’t hear them. I began to pray. Although I knew enough about Christian Science to know I didn’t have the right to interfere with another’s thinking without his or her knowledge and consent, the thought came to me that neither was I to bear witness to a false concept of man. In other words, I needed to stop being impressed by the picture before me and pray to see and know only what was actually true about the idea God created.
A short while later I took something into the dressing room to try on, and this young woman and her child were in an adjacent room. The verbal abuse of the little boy continued. At this, I turned wholeheartedly to God, and at that moment overwhelming compassion for both the mother and the child swept over me.
I don’t remember exactly what came to thought, but I do remember acknowledging that one spiritual idea could not harm another, nor could anyone be made to act out feelings of being victimized by the birth of, or need to care for, a child. I prayed to know that an innocent child could not be blamed or become the victim of another’s frustration or wrath concerning what she might be going through. I affirmed that love is eternally expressed in all of us, as God’s spiritual offspring; therefore, love is always present between a mother and a child and could be felt and expressed. I saw that love is the only true motivating factor of parenthood.
I have no idea how long I prayed along these lines, but gradually I became aware of a completely different attitude being articulated in the other cubicle. The most tender and loving words were coming out of this mother’s mouth. She was expressing the affection of real parenting to the little fellow.
This incident taught me a good lesson about how to pray for the children of the world. It assured me that God shows us what direction our prayers should take, and that our prayers do make a difference.
Researchers are learning more and more about the brain everyday; but they still admit to knowing very little about Mind. Listen to this interesting TED talk where Donald Hoffman a Cognitive scientist presents his research on this subject.
Hoffman, in his presentation debunks our current theories about consciousness stating that “we are wrong and misinterpreting our perceptions” and that there is a different source than the brain for consciousness. Yet he still is reluctant to draw a correlation to a deific source.
In Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, established early on that Mind is a synonym for God. She writes in the glossary of the Science and Health on page 591
Mind.The only I, or Us; the only Spirit, Soul, divine Principle, substance, Life, Truth, Love; the one God; not that which is in man, but the divine Principle, or God, of whom man is the full and perfect expression; Deity, which outlines but is not outlined.
We have all heard the joke and it sounds like a funny question, but what is the first thing we do in an emergency and how do we dial up God when there is an urgent need for help? Many find what they need by going to 911 in the Bible; that is Psalms 91 verse 1. It starts out ‘He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty“.
Click the below link from JSH-Online to hear some testimonies of how people used the 91st Psalm in prayer to get themselves out of some tight spots including a parachute jump where the chute failed.
JSH-Online is the official website of The Christian Science Journal, Sentinel, and Herald.
Our Bible lesson this Sunday, June 14, is entitled “God the Preserver of Man” and will be read at our 4:00 service. There will be readings from the Bible in which the 91st Psalm is included along with correlative passages from our text book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. We will hear the song ‘Amazing Grace’ by guest soloist, Nicole Moersch.
Click here for some examples of music at our services
You can read the whole Psalm below.
Psalm 91 KJV
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
