Order of Service
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Life
Hymn 533
Scriptural Selection
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 218
Notices
Solo
Lisa Huffaker, Soloist
How Excellent Is Thy Loving Kindness
Psalms XXXVI, text
Don Humphries, music
How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God!
Therefore do we put our trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be satisfied with the abundance of thine house
and thou shalt make them drink
of the river of thy pleasures,
and thou shalt make them drink
of the river of thy pleasures.
How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God!
Therefore do we put our trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
Therefore do we put our trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
For in thee is the fountain of life:
in thy light shall we see light.
For in thee is the fountain of life:
and in thy light shall we see light,
we shall see light.
O continue thy loving kindness
unto them that know thee,
and thy righteousness to the pure in heart,
and thy righteousness to the pure in heart.
How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God!
Therefore do we put our trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
Therefore do we put our trust
under the shadow of thy wings.
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Life
Golden Text
II Corinthians 5:17 behold
. . . behold, all things are become new.
Responsive Reading
Psalms 96:1, 2, 6, 9 (to :); 34:3, 8, 12, 17, 22; 36:7–9 (to :)
O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:
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.
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
For with thee is the fountain of life:
Lesson-Sermon
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Hymn 577
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
Postlude
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