09/08/2026
So much of what we have seems to go away. Yet is this so? The Bible shares a different take. “I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it.” Ecclesiastes 3:14. This week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson explains that lack and loss are not the effect of God, good. “Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: ‘The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ All substance, intelligence, wisdom, being, immortality, cause, and effect belong to God. The conceptions of mortal, erring thought must give way to the ideal of all that is perfect and eternal. Through many generations human beliefs will be attaining diviner conceptions, and the immortal and perfect model of God’s creation will finally be seen as the only true conception of being.”
You can explore these spiritual truths by studying this week’s Bible Lesson. You will find this at a Christian Science Reading Room or hear it read aloud Sunday mornings at Christian Science church services. What you learn will inspire you. The Lesson is based on thoughtfully selected passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Everyone is welcome. For more information on listening onlin, visit https://www.christianscience.com/the-mother-church-in-boston/the-mother-church-services/online-sunday-church-service. The Christian Science Society and Reading Room in Newport, Oregon will be closed between September 8 and September 20. All services and Reading Room hours will resume on September 21.