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"Thoughts that heal" From South East Magazine (Australia), February 15-19, 1993 by Ken Packer "Do we dream of personal power, social superiority, or public prestige? Do we hunger for money, for material possessions, and a luxurious lifestyle? "These desires come from one source only, namely, from ideas which we allow to lodge in our minds. And going one step further, so that our musings develop into unrestrained lust, amounts to our thoughts taking us prisoner! "But God can help us turn the tables by 'bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ' (II Corinthians 10.

In 1993, meetings were held throughout the United States and in many other countries focusing on the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science. The purpose of these meetings was to engage church members in making the revealed Comforter, the divine Science which Christ Jesus taught and practiced, more widely known to all mankind through Science and Health.

When we think of nursing, perhaps care of the sick comes immediately to thought. Christian Science healing, however, is meant to cure sin as well as sickness, to address materialism in our own thought even as we care for the patient.

Christ Jesus was keenly aware of each individual's preciousness to God. One way he explained this was by telling his followers that every hair of their heads was numbered.

Most of us well know that we cannot always believe what we see. We know that at times something we thought to be true has turned out to be completely false.

Bridges , windows, ambassadors —these are a few words to describe the all-embracing thought that moves members of The Mother Church to form Christian Science organizations (CSOs) at universities and colleges. CSOs are bridges, bringing together those on a college campus who are searching for spiritual perspective; windows letting in the light of Christian healing on community needs; made up of ambassadors, not of denominational "territory," but of the universal ideas Mary Baker Eddy has shared with "honest seekers for Truth" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (see p.

How dearly we may love our family and friends! And how very much, too, they may cherish us. But sometimes family and friends, while surely meaning well, may oppose our involvement or advancement in Christian Science.

In the summer of 1604 fifty-four of the top Hebrew and Greek scholars in England gathered at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster Abbey. Their purpose: to begin work on the book that has since become known as "the noblest monument of English prose"—the King James Bible.

Healing is so much needed these days! The big question is, How can we improve health; how can we stem the proliferation of disease? Christian Science speaks to these problems with a scientifically spiritual approach that is both fundamental and effective. As the Science of Christ that Jesus demonstrated in his remarkable healings, it enables us to follow his example in overcoming both disease and sin through spiritual means.

At times we soar, uplifted to new views of God and man, feeling closer to our heavenly Father than to the air we breathe. But there are times when, even though we know intellectually that God is always present, we seem far from Him and unable to feel His unwavering love.