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Lesson Application Ideas From 2017
- Claim your pure-as-gold heritage!
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
Most of us don’t like the word sin. And, yet, those of us who desire to feel our connection to Love more deeply and have a greater awareness of our innate health need to understand it. Once we get past the wrongheaded idea that sin makes us feel guilty, we will make steady progress correcting it. Guilt is the guile... - Enjoy CC & MBE Library Insights on select citations on “Everlasting Punshment” (the Christian...
Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
To go with Christie Hanzlik's Application Ideas this week, I put together these insights from Cobbey Crisler and The Mary Baker Eddy Library on select citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “(N)Everlasting Punishment” for Oct. 29, 2017. More to follow. - Never miss a blessing opportunity
Monday, October 16th, 2017
This week's Bible Lesson helps us consider how we can most effectively be intentionally and consciously present with God, and what this correct discernment and active reflection means for us and our forever restoration to newness of life. - Enjoy CC & MBE Library Insights on select citations on “Probation After Death” (the Christian...
Sunday, October 15th, 2017
To go along with John Bigg's Met Application Ideas, I put together these insights from Cobbey Crisler, my mother and The Mary Baker Eddy Library on select citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Probation After Death” for Oct. 22, 2017). ENJOY! - 1. Do justly 2. Love mercy,3. Walk humbly
Monday, October 9th, 2017
This week’s lesson on “Doctrine of Atonement” inspires us with ways in which we can understand Christ’s role in our at-one-ment with Divine Love and feel this at-one-ment more deeply. We are already at one with Divine Love, but we should understand our at-one-ment so we can most effectively demonstrate it... - Enjoy CC & MBE Library Insights on select citations on “Doctrine of Atonement” (the Christian...
Sunday, October 8th, 2017
To go along with Christie's Met Application Ideas, we hope you will enjoy these insights from both Cobbey Crisler and The Mary Baker Eddy Library on select citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Doctrine of Atonement” for Oct. 15, 2017) - Find God's power and presence in your healings to feel confidence that evil is unreal
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
It is material sense that "tells" us of that which opposes the Truth of God's allness. In this lesson we'll get a few ideas to combat the false sense. We'll replace the lie with the clearer picture that we get when we are relying on spiritual sense, bestowed on us by our Father-Mother. - Enjoy CC Insights on select citations on “Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?” (the Christian...
Sunday, October 1st, 2017
To go along with Kerry's Met Application Ideas, we hope you will enjoy these Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?” for Oct. 8, 2017) - Harvest the fruits of the “tree of life” and get rid of the rotten “tree of knowledge of good...
Monday, September 25th, 2017
...all this week as I study this week’s Bible Lesson I am going to be asking myself what trees have I allowed to grow in my orchard? And what quality of fruit are they producing? Thinking of these lessons (from the local German orchard), Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount that are our Golden Text this week... - Enjoy CC Insights on select citations on “Unreality” (the Christian Science Bible Lesson for...
Sunday, September 24th, 2017
To go along with Rick's Met Application Ideas, we hope you will enjoy these Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Unreality” for October 1, 2017 - Pray to have your blinded eyes opened to behold the invisible things of Spirit!
Monday, September 18th, 2017
The first thing I noticed about this Lesson was the many references to eyes and seeing. Some of us may feel the need to apply the references to the literal opening of blind eyes. But, regardless of our supposed visual acuity, we all need to be praying to have our eyes opened to behold more of the infinite universe... - Enjoy CC Insights on select citations on “Reality” (the Christian Science Bible Lesson for...
Monday, September 18th, 2017
Before (and after) Kathy Fitzer's soon-to-arrive Metaphysical Application Ideas, we hope you will enjoy these Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Reality” for September 24, 2017 - Look to Spirit, not Matter, for ALL Good!
Monday, September 11th, 2017
This week's Christian Science Bible Lesson provides us with opportunity for study and self-examination into the ways we may be tempted to look to matter instead of Spirit. Thankfully, we never are stuck – if we have been in a habit of looking to matter and material evidence for information, we can rejoice that God's... - Enjoy CC Insights on select citations on “Matter” (the Christian Science Bible Lesson for Sept...
Sunday, September 10th, 2017
Enjoy a Mary Baker Eddy insight and several Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Matter” for September 17, 2017 - Claim the riches of God’s creation as your eternal substance!
Monday, September 4th, 2017
here is one lesson that you learn very soon when you speak a few languages. Translation is tough. It is often very difficult to get the real sense when translating from one language to another. Accurate translation is a science and an art. A good translator is a treasure beyond description. That is why we... - Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on...
Monday, September 4th, 2017
Before the mid-morning arrival of Rick's Met Application Ideas, we hope you will enjoy these Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Substance” for September 10, 2017 - Show your true ID as God’s spiritual MAN—powerful, good, greatly beloved!
Monday, August 28th, 2017
"...you are greatly beloved;"! So our lesson on man begins, with the fact that we are greatly beloved of God. Our Responsive Reading then lists the ways in which this love for man is shown: comforting, giving us all that we need to do good, establishing us in Christ, anointing us, walking with us, receiving us... - Fight the flood with the No-and-Yes Love of the Commandments and Beatitudes!
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Here's more priceless Cobbey Crisler: Our defense against the dragon and its FLOOD in Rev.12:1-3 (B16) is the "No and Yes" Love found in the Commandments and Beatitudes: (See Warren's PS#4 in online posting after this email blast.) - Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on...
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Man” for September 3, 2017 - Embrace the Word of God and follow Christ Jesus’ example!
Monday, August 21st, 2017
Jesus’ words and deeds made the Word (or divine manifestation) of God practical. The saving power embodied in Jesus’ works illustrated the divine nature of man, and man’s inseparable relationship to God. The authority with which he spoke came directly from the life-giving Spirit which he taught and... - Enjoy CC Insights on “Christ Jesus” for August 27, 2017
Monday, August 21st, 2017
Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Christ Jesus” for August 27, 2017 - Cherish ALL divine Mind is and is doing! Persistently keep out the neighbor's cat (thoughts)!
Monday, August 14th, 2017
There is one Mind. The one Mind is All; all-knowing, all-wise; there is nothing more. “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.” This familiar line from the scientific statement of being expresses the oneness and allness of God, of what God is, and what God is doing. - Enjoy CC Insights on “Mind” for August 20, 2017
Monday, August 14th, 2017
Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Mind” for August 20, 2017 - Accept God, Soul,as your Sun and Shield and you will never stumble in the dark again!
Monday, August 7th, 2017
I remember the power of the lesson I learned that when in the dark, turn to God. And it is in exactly that light that we find this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson an incredible help in understanding God and Soul in the true Light. Mortal existence without God is like that blind search in the dark... - Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on some Bible citations from the CS Bible Lesson on “Soul” for...
Monday, August 7th, 2017
**You can buy your own transcripts and audio recordings of most of Cobbey’s 28 talks at a new website: www.crislerlibrary.co.uk Please email your order or inquiry to office@crislerlibrary.co.uk, or directly to Janet Crisler, at janetcrisler7@gmail.com] - Try on the fruits of the Spirit. Forget matter-based solutions and see Spirit as the only real and...
Monday, July 31st, 2017
So this lesson is really about getting to know the active Spirit working to create and renew in our lives. This work is always good and harmonious. One way to see this active work is through the metaphor of “angels”, which is a theme throughout this week’s lesson. I like to think of the idea of angels not... - Enjoy CC Insights on “Spirit” for August 6, 2017
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Spirit” for August 6, 2017 - Embrace Divine Love as Your *JOYFUL* Shepherd, You Will Not Want!
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
This week's Bible Lesson describes God, Love, as our all-knowing Shepherd, tending to our every need. The Golden Text announces that our God will feed us, His flock, like a shepherd, and gather us lambs with His arm, and carry us against his chest, and "gently lead those that are with young." - Enjoy Insights on "Love" for July 30, 2017
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
Enjoy Cobbey Crisler insights on select Bible citations from the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Love” for July 30, 2017 - Walk in Truth, forever loved and delivered by Christ!
Monday, July 17th, 2017
Continuing our series of lessons focusing on the synonyms of God, let’s explore how understanding Truth enables us to discern and be cared for by the reality of being, as revealed through Christian Science — the knowledge of Christ, Truth! We must keep walking forward! - Drink Freely from the Fountain of Life Eternal!
Monday, July 10th, 2017
According to biology, life is still being defined. But simply put, life is generally thought of as an organized group of cells that consume and convert nutrients into usable and storable energy, maintain a stable internal environment despite external conditions, grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, and evolve (see... - Take your “God is Love” sign with you wherever you go to worship without boundaries!
Monday, July 3rd, 2017
What a glorious joy it will be to share CedarS being filled even fuller than that upper room in Dresden was with those who are completely free to worship God as this week’s Bible Lesson states with a quote from the “New King James Version,” Golden Text: John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must... - Know God “by heart”! Put Love first to make it last—to be reflected memorably forever!
Monday, June 26th, 2017
This is the true, unspoken, achievement of life. To know God. Only, in this week's lesson, it isn't "unspoken" at all! Understanding God helps us to see what "...Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard..." (RR) Where does this ability reside? It's not in human knowledge or education. "All we correctly know of Spirit... - Feel the power of the Word — Divine Science!
Monday, June 19th, 2017
This week’s lesson talks a lot about the eternal nature of the Word of God, and the power of that Word. It came to me that the Word is Truth’s revelation of itself to the human consciousness — Love’s communication to man, revealing the reality of being and bringing healing. It is the Christ. The first... - See God’s Hand-iwork and Feel It Uplift You!
Monday, June 12th, 2017
The theme of God’s outstretched arm, which repeats throughout this week’s lesson, reminds me of the strength and safety I felt that day. I’m not resentful of my experience in the rapids. Feeling the hand of God and the strength of His outstretched arm (expressed by my mother) was a gift I will never forget. - Accept God’s presence and promise to guard, protect, watch-over you eternally!
Monday, June 5th, 2017
The Comfort, the security, the safety that comes from God being with us. Not distant, not apart, but right with us right where we need Him. And that could be a comfort even greater that having your dog sleep right by your bed! This Bible Lesson also shows not only how God is “with us” but also how He preserves... - See and rejoice in the wholeness and beauty of God's creation that already exists!
Monday, May 29th, 2017
We are each created in completeness. We come with a "job", if you will. And mostly that job consists of doing what God created us to do—express Him. Expression is a form of praise and rejoicing isn't it?! Just take a look at the Responsive Reading and see all the commands about singing, showing forth salvation... - Be alert to the suggestions of evil. Resist them by abiding in the Kingdom — and build!
Monday, May 22nd, 2017
In this week’s lesson we learn that we don’t have to wait for circumstances to change in order to quiet the warring influences, and build. Rather, as we put our complete confidence in God, abiding in the consciousness of God’s omnipotent care, we discover that He is our “rock and fortress” and is forever... - Find Your True Nature and Become a New Creature!
Monday, May 15th, 2017
All over the northern hemisphere springtime is in full flower, bringing fresh growth, and renewal. This is a perfect time for each of us to think about putting on our “new natures.” The Golden Text reminds us that the new man is “truly righteous and holy.” Righteousness and holiness correlate respectively to... - Follow these simple steps to be Children of the Promise, immortal!
Monday, May 8th, 2017
Maybe it is time to take the mystery out of immortality—and to give a Bible-based, holy path to claim immortality as a spiritual fact of God’s creation. That’s right, a guaranteed, God-given approach to claiming your divine rights to immortality as outlined and demonstrated in the Bible. This week’s Bible... - Feel upheld and supported constantly as God's one and only, true creation--spiritual man
Monday, May 1st, 2017
All of these Christian Science Bible lessons help us to get a clearer picture of the true nature of God as Love. It is not that traditional theology "has it all wrong". Certainly there is a strong belief in a God of Love. But mingled with that picture, there is also quite a bit of contradiction, mystery, unexplained... - Experience Everlasting Love!
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Sinlessness is being free from the belief of separation from Love and perfection. Christ (our awareness of our connection to Love) is what frees us from the belief of separation and frees us from sin. Christ Jesus is our way shower who leads the way to discovering our own sinlessness. - Walk the way of right thinking and acting and live!
Monday, April 17th, 2017
By my count, the word righteous or righteousness appears 11 times in the Lesson between the Golden Text and the end of the 4th section. Might be important to understand what those words mean. I checked the original Hebrew and Greek, as well as Bible dictionaries and regular dictionaries. I loved discovering that in... - Have your happiest Easter yet, demonstrating your inseparability from God!
Monday, April 10th, 2017
Although the word “atonement” as used in the New Testament, means “reconciliation,” traditional, Christian theology generally emphasizes Jesus’ suffering, and that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross served as redemption from sin for the whole world. Those who “accept” Jesus as their savior are said to be... - Let God heal the great impostors, sin, disease, and death.
Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
Let’s face it, it is a pretty hard sell in today’s world to ask people to believe that this topic could even be considered as a question, “Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?”. After all, the vast majority of humanity firmly believe that sin, disease, and death are not only real, but an undeniable reality...... - Reverse the material view to find the beautiful and true view of God's harmony
Monday, March 27th, 2017
It's interesting that Mrs. Eddy saw fit to establish a lesson on both "Reality" and "Unreality". It is revealed to us just why this is necessary when we look in Section 6 at citations S25 and S26. We have to "...learn that error is unreal..." before we can be ready to progress. And "A knowledge of error and of its... - Let the light of God reveal reality!
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Reality — as defined by Noah Webster in 1828 — is “truth; fact; in distinction from mere appearance.” When we look at things in a dark room, they can appear vague, distorted, or like something entirely different from what they are. All of that changes when lights are turned on. This week’s lesson focuses... - Become a Spiritual Trailblazer! Disprove Matter's False Claims!
Monday, March 13th, 2017
In Christian Science, matter isn’t a condition, or a state of being, but a false way of looking at reality. Matter is a termfor the belief in an objective state of a mind apart from God. Since God is the only Mind, a “mind apart from God” is impossible, and therefore its objective state—matter—is also... - Substance, claim its continual good for you and all!
Monday, March 6th, 2017
The continual, unending flow of Silver Springs waters led me to a realization about my study and relationship with the Bible. I realized that whereas one time I might have thought of the countless stories in the Bible of God’s wonderful provision, care, and protection for His followers and prophets as events in our... - Dance daily as God's reflection! Wash off every trace of dust man.
Monday, February 27th, 2017
Our lesson this week begins and ends with part of the final verse of Psalm 23: "...I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." (Golden Text) This keynote conveys the message that man is, in his true and only state, at home in heaven, the house of God. We never leave this house, move away, never go back there... - Follow Jesus’ example—demonstrate God’s impartial and universal love!
Monday, February 20th, 2017
The glossary of Science and Health defines Christ as “The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error.” (SH 583: 10) As we understand that all mankind is truly held in unity with God through Christ, we can shift from the perspective of a divided country, a world in conflict... - Choose Wisely and Trustingly with divine Mind's Guidance!
Monday, February 13th, 2017
What guides your decisions? How do we as believers in the one God, approach forks in the road, both large and small? In the Golden Text the prophet Isaiah does not encourage us to rely on ... the voice of God for every direction in life. The allusion to hearing “a word behind thee” is thought to represent either... - BONUS: Happy day-after Valentine’s Day to each of you cherished Met subscribers!
Saturday, February 11th, 2017
It's never too late to look for Love in all the right places! Better than getting candy and roses (that are all-too-soon gone) is having a post-Valentine's Day treasure hunt for the true Love that lasts forever! Finding lasting Love is accomplished with carefree ease, when you look for and expect to find it in all... - Bless God to find Soul as an infinite source for all you could ever need.
Monday, February 6th, 2017
In this world of super markets and civilization it is far too easy to think we have what we need because of a job, a pension, or a store. We become blindly dependent on mankind’s great development and infrastructure. We also become prideful about our education and talents and in so doing we often lose sight of the... - Be Spirit’s song, “carefree and strong… perfect for all to see.”
Monday, January 30th, 2017
I found the Golden Text in this week's lesson on Spirit, to be beautifully and inextricably woven into the fabric of each section [and blended into the harmonic whole of this Lesson].... For now we will have to be content with expressing infinite ideas in human terms and find the spiritual substance behind the human... - Bonus Met: Happy Groundhog Day is Back!
Sunday, January 29th, 2017
No matter if I (Phil) saw my own shadow or not today, YOU will never see your own shadow or be fearful, as long as you face the sun (Son)! And, no matter how often nasty winter storm patterns seem to be repeated, "It matters not what be thy lot, so Love doth guide; For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, whate'er... - Trust Love as your Shepherd: always-there; meeting needs; uniting, comforting, governing!
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
In each section of the lesson, let’s notice how Love, the Shepherd is able to fade, evict, alleviate, and remove fear. - Take the little book of truth, and eat it up! Be a thinker!
Monday, January 16th, 2017
God is opening our eyes and ears to truly understand HIS Word, and things become clear as we simply acknowledge this divine influence. Each of us can expect to get the messages we need in just the way that we can understand. God’s promises are forever! So, keep seeking … and God will show Himself and make His... - Yearn to reflect perfect Life daily! Thirst for the Real Thing!
Monday, January 9th, 2017
While we study the Lesson this week let’s remember that we can’t find life through casual perusal, or through material symbols, means, and methods. Let’s yearn for the understanding of God as Life, and incorporate it into our daily experience. - Worship in the “beauty of holiness” within and without!
Monday, January 2nd, 2017
If you want to know what “Sacrament” means in the Christian Science church dig into this Bible Lesson and you are going to have a pretty good insight, a firm foundation, a spiritual understanding that will definitely be manifest in a loving and powerful outward manifestation!
