Ideas for studying the lesson on "Ancient and modern Necromancy. . ." for June 2, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Ancient & Modern Necromancy . . .”

Video on Paul:

Miscellaneous words and articles:

Word Study: title of the lesson

Word Study: for “watch”

Notes on background of Paul

Timeline of Paul

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Section 2:

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Ideas to study "Soul and Body" for May 26, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Soul & Body”

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There are several uses of the term GLORY in this lesson. Here is a sheet of ideas on Glory that we will be using to speak about.

Glory of God

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Section 2:

Ideas for studying the lesson on "Immortals and Immortals" May 19, 2024

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This lesson is filled with the concept of LIGHT!

Miscellaneous ideas on Light:

From the Editors: “No Darkness at All” August 27, 2012, CSS

Hebrew and Greek on LIGHT

Section 2:

Research: Gen. Jacob wrestles with angel

“Face to Face” biblically means the relationship of ‘original’ to ‘image.’

Perfect God, perfect man. 

Original = God, “I AM”

Image = man, “I am

Articles to read on this subject: (Both articles are very inspiring. I’ve just given you a bit from each).

“Face to Face” by Gladys A. M. O’Connor, CSJ, October 1931

“It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew that after Jesus had gone up into a high mountain—an exalted state of spiritual thinking—he was transfigured before three of his disciples whom he had taken with him. They, too, then saw the spiritual identity as a son of God, whose face shone as the sun with his exalted understanding of Life and Love, and whose purity was as a white raiment about him.

This spotless purity, into which no shadow of animality had ever entered, enabled Jesus to come into radiant communion with his Father. He was so conscious of divine Love's omnipotence, perfection, and nearness that he, as it were, saw God "face to face," and reflected in his countenance the matchless holiness, purity, and love which dwell forever in the divine Mind, and which had always been his as a son of God.”

“Face to face with God,” Mary Bretz Reed, CSJ, March 1987

"I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." 1 What a wonderful experience Jacob must have had to so glimpse what God is in His perfection, goodness, and omnipresence that he could see something of the unreality of the error he was struggling with—"a mortal sense," Mrs. Eddy explains, "of life, substance, and intelligence as existent in matter with its false pleasures and pains . . . ." 2 He was so spiritually uplifted that he called the place "Peniel" or "Face of God."

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Section 3:

Research: John 3: Nicodemus

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Section 4:

Thoughts on the story of “Jairus’ daughter”

Research on Isa 60:1 Arise, shine

“Arise, Shine; for thy light is come.” Eugenia P. Godfrey, January 22, 1910

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Notes on the concept of light:

what it is:

a. understanding, knowledge, wisdom

b. agent which produces vision

c. understanding: the root means ‘what you stand for in obedience’

d. form of energy that travels freely through space

a. invisible

b. micro-wave

c. infrared

d. ultra-violet

e. prism: visible spectrum, 7 colors, completeness

f. reflected

g. travels 186,000 miles per sec

h. definition: open view, a visible state, a state of being seen

i. Christ, Truth

what it does:

a. dissolves darkness

b. allows us to see

c. causes growth, fuel, warms

d. shows us the way

e. totally illuminates the darkness

f. impartial, clarifies, inexhaustible, guides

g. takes away fear

h. heals XI: 13 CS in operation

darkness:

1. absence of light

2. an un-illuminated area

3. absence of moral or spiritual values

4. obscurity, ignorance, dimness, impaired vision, obscurity or mist

one tiny candle lit in a cave that’s been pitch black for a million years will enlighten the darkness.

Turning on the light:

a. is really prayer

b. focusing on the allness of God

c. God’s infinity, essence, presence

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Adam and Fallen Man" for May 12, 2024

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Research: Gen. 2: tree of knowledge

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Everlasting Punishment" for May 5, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Everlasting Punishment”

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Everlasting:

Everlasting: in Greek it is aionios: 166

“eternal, for ever, everlasting, without beginning or end,

that which always has been and always will be, never to

cease” (Accordance Thayer, Greek Strong’s Dictionary).


Everlasting: in Hebrew is owlam: 5769

Long duration, futurity, for ever, evermore, perpetual,

continuous existence (blueletterbible.org)

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Section 2:

Research: Ezekiel 18: sour grapes

Paragraph on “sour grapes”

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Section 3:

Research: II Kings: 25; Jehoiachin and Evil-merodach

Article on King Jehoiachin

Section 4:

Research: Prayer Jabez: I Chron. 4:10

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Section 5:

Research: Luke 4: Healing of man with unclean spirit

Research: Luke 10: beheld Satan fall



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Ideas for studying the Lesson on "Probation After Death" April 28, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Probation After Death”

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Word Study: Key word in lesson is “Salvation”

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Section 2:

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Ideas for studying "Doctrine of Atonement" for April 21, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Doctrine of Atonement”

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Ideas to ponder:

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
(Luke 19:10)

(Misc. 107:29) Without a knowledge of his sins, and repentance so severe that it destroys them, no person is or can be a Christian Scientist.

To be prayed daily: “Rule out of me all sin.” Man 41:19

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Responsive Reading:

Research: Luke 15: Lost sheep

Study the concept of LOST

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Section 1:

Research: Matthew 9: eating with publicans and sinners

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Section 2:

Research: Mark 2: Jesus heals sick of the palsy

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Section 3:

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Section 5:

Research: boiling oil and JOHN

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Is Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" for April 14, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?”

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Responsive Reading: Ps 91

The position of the secret place is unassailable, no moat, wall, drawbridge or battlement could make us so secure as when the hosts of the Lord environ around us. (Bliss Knapp)

Research: Acts 9: Raising Dorcas from the dead

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Unreality" for April 7, 20

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HANDOUTS for “Unreality”

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Look for the key word in the Lesson: WILDERNESS is used 11 times

“Daughter of Zion” notes

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Section 1:

Research on Ex: 3: Moses’ commission

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Section 3:

Research on Woman with issue of blood

Definitions of Whole

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Reality" for March 31, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Reality”

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30 Bible Verses about LIGHT

REALITY, noun

1. Actual being or existence of any thing; truth; fact; 

2. Something intrinsically important, not merely matter of show.

3. that which has a full and absolute being of itself, and is not considered as a part of any thing else.

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“What are we seeing?” Elizabeth Crecelius Schwart, August 2021, CSJ

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Section I: from the Bible Lens

Section 3:

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Section 5:

Research: John 20 Resurrection

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Thanks so much for working on the spiritual sense of this Easter Lesson.

With so much love!

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from a Christian Science Perspective

it's not uncommon for individuals to overlook delving into the context of the Bible, and why it is relevant in our modern livess. 

Consequently, when questioned about its importance, many find themselves at a loss to provide a comprehensive response.

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Ideas for studying the Lesson on "Matter" for March 24, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Matter”

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Mistake in past blog:

Last week I wrote that there were 1250 times that the word ‘hand’ was used in Science & Health. It is not. It is used that many times in the Bible.

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Section 2:

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Substance" for March 17, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Substance”

Substance: Greek

A setting under, a support i.e. figuratively – 

concrete, essence, confidence

Substructure, foundation, a setting or placing under, 

that which has foundation, is firm, that which has 

actual existence; a substance, real being

Dictionary:

  1. Something existing by itself; that which really is or exists; 

2.The essential part; the main or material part

3.Something real, not imaginary; something solid, not empty

4.Goods, estate; means of living

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Notes: Responsive Reading: “My Times are in Thy Hand” Ps 31:15


Section I:

Research: Gen. 1:26, 27, 31

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Section 2:

Research: James 1:17

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Section 3 and 4:

Research: John 5: Healing Man at the Pool

"Article on ‘why Jesus taught on the Sabbath?”

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“This false sense of substance must yield to His eternal presence, and so dissolve.” Unity 60:27

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Man" for March 10, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Man”

Responsive Reading:

Research: Acts 10: Cornelius

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SECTION I:

Research: Genesis I:27 ‘male and female created he them’

“Divine Completeness” William H. Hill, May 2006, CSS

These links won’t stick but you can search for them on JSH:

“Sons and Daughters” Clara Armitage Brown, October 13, 1951 CSS__________

Section 2:

Research: Ruth 1

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Section 4:




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Ideas for studying the Lesson on "Christ Jesus" for March 3, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Christ Jesus”

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Section I:

“The Word was made flesh” Richard J. Davis, December 1950, CSJ

“The Word was made flesh” William Milford Correlll, January 1, 1966, CSS

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Section II:

Research: Acts 1: the conversion of Saul to Paul

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Mind" for Feb. 25, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Mind”

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Jesus heals man with unclean spirit!

Ideas for studying the lesson on "Soul" for February 18th

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HANDOUTS for “Soul”

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Research: Luke 8: Raising Jairus’ daughter

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Section 6:
”Bring ye all the tithes” Carolyn B. Swan, June 1965, CSJ
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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Spirit"for February 11, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Spirit”

Ideas for studying the lesson on "Love" for February 4, 2024

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HANDOUTS for “Love”

Floodtides of love from Reid Charlston

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Terms in the Lesson on handling tears and grief:

weeping; tears; wipe away all tears; mine eyes from tears; sorrows; wept for Absalom; saddening strains; Jesus wept; “man of sorrows” godly sorrow; weep; sow in tears; ‘sorrow shall be turned into joy’

“The disciples stood round about him” C. Earle Armstrong, August 1976, CSJ

Research: Acts 14: Paul almost killed and stoned

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“To love means to identify the object of your love with its divine source.” Ralph Wagers

What is it to love? It is always to see the man of God’s creation and nothing else, and to separate from our thought of man any belief of fear or disease; this is Love. MBE to a student

Quote from Lecture “Living to Love” by Grace Bemis Curtis

“With only a little love, we live meager, meaningless lives. With the wrong concept of love, we live dissolute, even criminal lives.With normal human affection, we live good lives.With unselfish love for our fellow men, we live great lives.With true spiritual love, we live glorified lives. When our life expresses divine Love, we live eternally. Divine Love and eternal Life are one.” (If you want a copy of this lecture, just email me and ask.)

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Ideas for studying the lesson on "Truth" for January 28, 2024

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Attributes of Truth

HANDOUTS for “Truth”

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SECTION 2:

Research: Acts 14: Paul heals lame man at Lystra

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Ideas for studying the Lesson on "Life" for January 21, 2024

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My sister Kristy Christian is offering a talk on THE TABERNACLE on Zoom and in person on February 17th. Here is information on it. I would highly recommend for you to listen to it. The tabernacle is one of the most important concepts in the whole Scriptures.

TABERNACLE TALK

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HANDOUTS for “Life”

Miscellaneous ideas for studying LIFE.

Sample of a treatment using the synonyms of LIFE along with the definition of GOD

Attributes and qualities on LIFE

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Short video on the book of Deuteronomy

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Section 2:

Research: Luke 7: Jesus raises the dead at Nain

Short video on raising the widow’s son

Map of Nain

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I hope you all have a wonderful week!

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Kathy









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