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One of the most precious gifts that God gives each one of us is spiritual sense, our inherent ability to understand God and to discern the reality of good. We can always exercise this God-derived insight to rightly assess the quality of our thoughts and actions, to distinguish between what’s right and what needs correcting and uplifting, so that we better conform to God-modeled thinking and behavior.

Some things work . Others don’t.

The author of Hebrews wrote about the great faith of Abraham and other early Bible worthies, who “confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Each year, our church sponsors a Christian Science lecture, given by a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. The lecture is for the community, on a topic we feel will particularly bless others.

The following is an edited excerpt of the Christian Science Associations Workshop held June 4, 2017, the day before Annual Meeting, in the Extension of The Mother Church.   To open the workshop, Allison (Skip) Phinney, a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors, introduced himself and Robin Hoagland, also a member of the Board of Directors.

Many years ago, my husband and I were visiting his family in California. I went into the garage to bring in another gallon container of water to finish filling the dinner glasses.

Christ Jesus referred to himself as “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6), and Christians all over the world devote time and energy to learning how to follow his example. In addition, learning about Jesus’ immediate disciples can be especially helpful in the quest to be better students of Christ.

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” said Christ Jesus ( John 8:32 ). Later, when Pilate was questioning Jesus to find out why the Jewish leaders wanted to crucify him, Jesus said: “Thou sayest that I am a king.

You know how , when someone feels especially sad, those internal thoughts and feelings can quickly translate into an obvious external, physical effect. You see it when the person’s eyes overflow with water.

Every day, people are confronted with statements about identity, health, purpose, and success, and the simple fact that we are being told these things often seems to give those statements the force of truth. It can be tempting to move forward based on whatever premise is presented to us, and try to figure out how to deal with the cards we’ve been given, instead of considering whether what’s written on those cards is accurate in the first place.