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Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to know Christ Jesus, and maybe even to walk with him from village to village throughout Judea? After witnessing such wonderful healing works and listening to the Master teach, surely you'd be filled with the kind of spiritual inspiration and knowledge that would make you a new person. What you learned could never be taken away.

Suppose you were trying to explain the coming of Christ to someone who knew little or nothing of Christianity. How would you begin to convey the significance of this timeless, saving Truth, which glowed so brightly in Jesus' life? Before you even began to describe the essence of Christ, you might make use of some imagery.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. As a reader of this magazine, you are most likely already familiar with this book.

I know a man who says he no longer watches the news on television. If he watches the nightly news, he cannot sleep.

Who's in control of your life? Does it seem that everyone has a say about what you can do, when you have time, how much money you have and how you can spend it? For many of us the answer to "Who's in control?" might be "My parents/wife/husband/ children. " Or "My boss/teacher/ scheduler/patients.

In First Peter, we read the instruction to "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.

In the last few years, a substantial shift has taken place in the way Christian Science and Christian Scientists are perceived in the "public square" of human discussion. Symptoms of this change are seen in: • adverse or ominous court decisions, both civil and criminal, in several states; • an aggressive and systematic "targeting" policy by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, mandating changes in state law to remove religious accommodation provisions; • expanded media reporting of negative judicial and legislative activity, e.

My wife and I wanted a baby very much. Then one day it occurred to me that I had never really prayed about this.

One of the most basic elements of Christianity is yielding to the healing power of God through prayer. Prayer lifts thought to the height where one senses clearly the presence of God, of Truth and Love; where one is conscious of God's all-encompassing goodness.

Are you seeking healing? Healing is often described as "being made whole. " One of the most comprehensive healing concepts in Christian Science is man's nature as a whole, indivisible expression of God.