Order of Service
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Unreality
Hymn 449
Scriptural Selection
I Cor 15:1-6, 8,10,12-14, 19-26
Silent Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 16-17
Hymn 381
Notices
Solo
Lisa Huffaker, Soloist
ARISE, SHINE, FOR THY LIGHT IS COME
The Bible, text (Revelations, John, and Isaiah)
James MacDermid, music
Behold, I stand at the door and knock:
If any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me.
I am the Light of the world:
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness
but shall have the Light of Life.
Arise, shine, for thy light is come,
and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
For the sun shall be no more thy light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee,
But the Lord shall be to thee thine everlasting Light,
Arise, shine, for thy light is come,
and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Arise, shine, for thy light is come.
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Unreality
Golden Text
II Corinthians 4:14 (New Living Translation)
We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
Responsive Reading
II Corinthians 4:6, Matthew 20:17–19, Matthew 27:1, 27, 35 (to :), 45, 51, 54
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
Lesson-Sermon
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Hymn 413
The scientific statement of being and its correlative scripture
There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 468:9-15)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
(I John 3:1–3)
Benediction
I Cor 15:22 (2nd In)
Postlude
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