Order of Service
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Mortals and Immortals
Hymn 85
Scriptural Selection
I Cor 13:9-12
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 144
Notices
Solo
Lisa Huffaker, Soloist
IF WE LIVE IN THE SPIRIT
Text from 2 Timothy 1:7, Ephesians 5:1, Galatians 5:1, and 2 Corinthians 3:17
Music by Clement Barker
If we live in the Spirit, if we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk, also walk in the Spirit,
for God hath not given us, hath not given us
the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind,
and of a sound mind.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
for ye are all the children, the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled, entangled again
with the yoke of bondage
Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
If we live in the Spirit, if we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk, also walk in the Spirit,
for God hath not given us, hath not given us
the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love,
and of a sound mind,
and of a sound mind.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
Explanatory Note
Subject of the Lesson-Sermon
Mortals and Immortals
Golden Text
I John 3:2 (from the ESV® Bible)
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Responsive Reading
II Timothy 1:1–3, 7, 9, 10, I Timothy 6:12 lay, Corinthians 15:50–53
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
. . . lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Lesson-Sermon
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Hymn 513
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
Col 3:4
Postlude
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