Articles

A First Reader feels the healing touch of the Christ.

A wrong turn at a metropolitan airport prompts gratitude for God’s  spiritual “navigational system.”

Immediate prayer on a busy street puts full faith in instantaneous healing.

An unjust lawsuit challenges a businessman to see that no situation is beyond the power of God.

Tense work situations. Prayer comes to the rescue.

How to avoid buying what fear and discouragement have to sell.

The brief messaging back and forth predated Twitter by a couple of millennia, yet one can imagine the ancient exchange as a modern-day Tweet. Jesus is walking along and notices that he has a couple of followers.

The original doom-and-gloom merchants touting a coming apocalypse were religious seers. Nowadays, though, faith-based threats of calamity tend to be greeted with a flood of sassy Tweets, rather than waves of panic.

When I was a graduate student in Arizona many years ago, I used to take the Christian Science periodicals with me so I could read them whenever I had any spare time. During one period, however, I would go out and never return home with the magazines.

One morning several years ago, as I studied the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week on “Sacrament,” I was struck by this citation in the Responsive Reading from Colossians 3:14 : “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. ” I literally couldn’t get past those words.