The Bible is at the heart of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, took to the Bible instinctively as a child and studied it intensively as an adult. Through this study she discovered the healing power of God and experienced it firsthand. This inspired her to delve even deeper into the Scriptures, finding their spiritual meaning, which ultimately led to her writing the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Together the Bible and Science and Health are the pastor of the Christian Science Church, from which a weekly Bible Lesson is read. Learn more about the Bible Lesson
The following Bible passages introduce this week's Bible Lesson. The full Lesson is comprised of citations from the Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
From this week's Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson:
Life
July 16–22, 2018
Golden Text | Deuteronomy 30:19 choose, 20 (to ;)
. . . choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days;
The Golden Text is from the New King James Version®.
Responsive Reading | Psalms 27:1, 4; 34:1, 3, 8, 10 they, 12–14, 22; Proverbs 4:10, 13
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.
I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
. . . they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Christian Science Quarterly™ Bible Lessons — Online Edition, Vol. 129, No. 29
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