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:
Mind
August 19–25, 2019
Golden Text | Isaiah 54:13 all
. . . all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Responsive Reading | Proverbs 2:6–11; 4:7, 25, 26; 16:1, 3
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.
Christian Science Quarterly™ Bible Lessons — Online Edition, Vol. 130, No. 34
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