Is Mind the producer, or is it produced?

June 19th, 2015

This week’s Bible lesson addresses this very question.
Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

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.

Do we see reality as it is?

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.

You are welcome to come to our service at 4:00 this Sunday,  June 21, and join us to hear this lesson sermon on Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

Or you can listen to it here online.

 

What is the number for 911?

June 13th, 2015

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.

Safe in any situation

Guests: Nigel Hutchinson-Brooks, Channing Walker, Clark Kelley, Paul Marin

October 12, 1997 – Sentinel Radio 1997

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.

The Mother Church Annual Meeting June 8th, at 10 am PST

June 7th, 2015

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This years Annual Meeting at the Mother Church is called “A spiritual foundation of Christ healing.”

You can view it online by checking here  The Mother Church Annual Meeting

Or come and join others to view it together at the Rancho Santa Fe church in the  Sunday school
.Phone 858-756-1691
6165 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (Map)

 

View the replay of Annual Meeting 2014.

 

Annual Meeting 2015 schedule

You are welcome at the following events

 Check World Clock (an external website) to find the time in your community.

Saturday, June 6, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.—”Building on the foundation of Christ-healing: From The Mary Baker Eddy Library Collections” (live audio webcast on ChristianScience.com/AnnualMeeting and in the Extension of The Mother Church): This session focuses on Mary Baker Eddy’s correspondence with her students about the practice of healing, and on how Christian Scientists since Mrs. Eddy’s time have built on the foundation of Christ-healing. The webcast will be available for replay for one year.

Saturday, June 6, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Mary Baker Eddy Library Open House (Atrium and Lobby of the Mary Baker Eddy Library)

Saturday, June 6, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.Christian Science Monitor New England Field Meeting (live audio webcast on ChristianScience.com/AnnualMeeting and in the Extension of The Mother Church): This session will explore how active engagement with the Monitor directly relates to your healing practice and spiritual progress. The webcast will be available for replay for one year.

Sunday, June 7, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.—”Hearts given to a Cause” (live audio webcast on ChristianScience.com/AnnualMeeting and in the Extension of The Mother Church): This session is a metaphysical focus on how genuine healing ignites a fire in our hearts, impelling us individually and together to respond with the Comforter to the wider needs of the world. The webcast will be available for replay for one year.

Monday, June 8, from 1:00 pm to around 2:45 or 3 p.m.Annual Meeting (live video webcast on ChristianScience.com/AnnualMeeting and in the Extension of The Mother Church): Annual Meeting will include discussion of the theme, “‘A spiritual foundation of Christ-healing’—continuing to build.” The webcast will be available for replay for one year.

Tuesday, June 9, (morning, 9:00 to 11:00 am, and afternoon, 1:30 to 3:30 pm)—Christian Science Practitioner Roundtable discussions (at various locations, the roundtables won’t be online). This event is ticketed. Registration closed on April 30. 

Tuesday, June 9, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.—”Conversation on Christian Science Nursing with our Church Family” (in the Original Edifice of The Mother Church, the conversation won’t be online).

Let us know as soon as possible if you plan to come to Boston. Please fill out the “Are you coming?” form. This way we can make sure we have space for everyone. Seating for all events, except the Practitioner Roundtables, is first come, first serve. If needed, we will provide over-flow seating in the Original Edifice. Also make your accommodation reservation soon as this is a busy time of year. Consider exploring hotels in the suburbs of Boston too.

Music at our 4:00 church service tomorrow

May 23rd, 2015

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At this coming Sunday’s service, May 23rd, Bill Bailey who plays regularly at the Rancho Santa Fe Church, will be playing and soloing for us.  Bill has played for us before, and most recently at the potluck we had after church on May 3rd.  Watch the below video where he performed with Elizabeth Griswold as she sings her original song “This Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c96hEbbODY&feature=youtu.be

Love at work in prison

May 22nd, 2015

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlT5Ri5H9UE&rel=0

Living Christian Science Today

There we were, in a glass-enclosed room with our seven young male students, all violent offenders in a youth correctional facility. My husband and I had been teaching these young men about Christian Science and about God’s love for them, and now it was time for them to apply what they had learned.

I watched them shift uneasily in their seats. They had just found out that the two young men who had stabbed some of their fellow prisoners with pens the night before would be allowed to return to the prison ward that night. Since all the men on the ward slept in one big room, not in separate cells, they felt vulnerable after lights-out. They feared a repeat of the violence and told us, “We don’t know what we’re going to do.”

As I heard my husband assure them of their safety in the everlasting arms of divine Love, I turned to God in prayer and quietly affirmed His constant presence and power despite the apparent threat. Just as Moses heard what he needed to know when he spoke to the children of Israel, I knew that I, too, could hear and speak God’s Word to these young men to calm their fears.

I listened for the still small voice of divine wisdom, and the thought came that God and His goodness are ever present, and that Christ, Truth, is always communicating that goodness to each of us—and expressing it in each of us as Love’s image. I knew that all of God’s creation reflects the perfection of the one divine Mind. Since God is Love and governs everyone, I reasoned that there could not possibly be a victim or a perpetrator. I also recalled the statement “Divine Love corrects and governs man,” which was in the Bible Lesson that week from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 6).

I told the men, “God is Love, and He has created each and every one of us to love and be loved. The word God comes from the word good. God has created each of us good, and the goodness of divine Love shines on everyone in this ward right now and always, leaving no one out of the kingdom of heaven. God, good, Love, takes care of you and me and all, because God is All-in-all, so there is nothing to fear.”

We learn in Christian Science that a humble desire to be and do good is prayer. My husband and I had taught the young men in the class the Lord’s Prayer, together with its spiritual interpretation in Science and Health (see pp. 16–17). We also assured them that to “let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5) is empowering, and they were being given an opportunity to prove that their prayers could be effective in their own lives.

So how did it all turn out that day? Was our prayer effective?

Prayer has a leavening effect that not only blesses the one who prays but also lifts the thought of others involved in the situation. And, as in the story of the woman who hid the leaven “in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened” (Luke 13:21), right there in the prison, the leaven of divine Science leavened the whole ward. Our students exuded a confidence that God was their Life and that the power of God—the action of Love—takes care of man.

They high-fived each other as they walked out of our session into the prisoners’ common area. Written on yellow sticky-notes stuck to their shirts was Mrs. Eddy’s statement “Divine Love corrects and governs man.” They were empowered by the realization that they had the divine right to be free of fear.

There were no further problems with fights breaking out in the prison ward, even after the two prisoners returned. We had all patiently persevered and proved the effectiveness of prayer to overcome fear, and we had demonstrated that all of God’s children are under the control of divine Love. We had heeded Paul’s injunction “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).

Marsha Pecaut CS is a local Christian Science Practitioner and a member of the Christian Science Society of Encinitas

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The God’s name game at the Encinitas Street fair

May 18th, 2015

The Reading Room will be open this weekend from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday and 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM on Sunday during the Encinitas Street Fair.  Parking is tight so it might be a good time to take the train!  Come by and say hi if you can.

We will have a scavenger hunt called “The God’s name game” during the fair this Saturday and Sunday in our Garden where the kids search for the seven synonyms for God.

IMG_1236  In our textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy she defines God in the glossary as:

God. The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence.

So we place the names: Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love around the garden to be found by the seekers.  Come by and join the fun and when a prize .

Click below to download a PDF of the game.

God’s name game

This game is based on ideas taught in a Christian Science Sunday school.  For more information about a Sunday School near you click Here  .

http://www.cschurchrsf.org/Sunday_School_files/Media/DSC_0005/DSC_0005.jpg?disposition=downloadWe are also affiliated with the Sunday school at the Rancho Santa Fe Church whose Sunday School meets Sunday mornings at 10:00 am while church is going on in the auditorium next door.  This is a very active Sunday school and would also welcome new students with open arms.

If you would like to know what kids learn in Sunday school, click on the link below
What do you learn in Sunday School?

For information about the Rancho Santa Fe Sunday School Click here

April Street Fair 2017

April 29 & 30. Enjoy over 450 unique food, arts and crafts vendors plus four entertainment stages, children’s rides, Bike Valets, and a Beer Garden! Take advantage of free family fun, entertainment, a National Award Winning MainStreet and a traditional So-Cal beach town. Come for the sun, stay for the moonlight.

Savor craft beers and soak up the sun while listening to the best bands in San Diego rock out at the Beer Garden Stage. You can even bring your kids and your dogs! Take a break from the hustle and bustle by listening to the eclectic music at The Lumberyard Courtyard Stage. See the stars of tomorrow perform at the Hansen’s Community Stage and the Encinitas School of Music Stage! Great news cyclists, our two Bike Valet stations are open both days to store your bicycles while you peruse the Street Fair!

PLEASE NOTE that there is NO PARKING on Hwy 101 from D to J Street on Saturday and Sunday from 4am – 6pm. Your car will be towed by law enforcement if parked in the specified area. There will be signage leading up to the Street Fair as a reminder.

Phone (760) 753 4545

912 S. Coast Hwy. 101, (just South of H Street – across from Starbucks), Encinitas, CA 92024

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Mary Baker Eddy’s poem, Satisfied, sung at church today

May 17th, 2015

Mary Baker Eddy wrote the poem Satisfied and it is a regular hymn that is sung during our services. Jen Hijj sang this hymn as a solo with a contemporary arrangement at today’s May 17th church service. She does a great job and we were blessed to have her.

Watch You tube video

The words to the poem are:

It matters not what be thy lot,
So Love doth guide;
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine,
Whate’er betide.

And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones,
God able is
To raise up seed — in thought and deed —
To faithful His.

Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence!
Our God is good.
False fears are foes — truth tatters those,
When understood.

Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.

The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,
God’s glorified!
Who doth His will — His likeness still —
Is satisfied.

COUNTERACTING TERRORISM – THE GLOBAL REACH OF PRAYER

May 14th, 2015

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Kari Mashos, CSB

Speaker from the Christian Science Board of Lectureship will be addressing terrorism at the Carlsbad/Vista church.

Location

Christian Science Church
1630 S. Melrose Drive
Vista, CA
(behind Burger King)

Phone number: 760.599.4506

Time

Saturday May 16th – 11:00 a.m.

Church website

 

 

Perfect Child an original song by Elizabeth Griswold

May 11th, 2015

Elizabeth while being accompanied by Hamit on the guitar performed for us at our 4:00 church service Sunday, May 10th, in the garden at the Encinitas Reading Room.

Click here to hear her solo

Next Sunday Jen Haj will be doing the solo with Cindy on accompaniment.  Click here to hear a sample of Jen’s last solo.

Where is SATISFACTION found?

May 10th, 2015
Your QUESTIONS ANSWERED  
in live online chat
 with Kari Mashos, CSB practitioner and teacher of Christian Science. 
The link to type in your questions:
http://sentinel.christianscience.com/audio/audio-chats/satisfaction-what-does-your-spiritual-identity-have-to-do-with-it
Listen live  at same link:
May 12,  11 am – noon
Listen later  at same link to the replay at home
 with family & friends, or with us:
 
Christian Science Reading Room
912 S. Coast Highway, Encinitas
(across from Starbucks)
Chat is hosted by our parent organization: The First Church of Christ, Scientist