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Lesson Application Ideas From 2020
- Christ Jesus shows how to overcome all challenges!
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
It’s difficult to imagine another moment in world history in which the question asked in the subject of this week's Bible Lesson could be more pertinent. In the midst of dire reports of deaths from the covid virus, Christian Scientists around the globe are daring to ask, "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?” Out of... - Worldwide Wednesday GEMs from Ken & Sue Cooper
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
[W. Note from Ken Cooper on behalf of CedarS international fans & World Prayer Watchers:] "While appreciating all you are having to do, I very much hope that you may be able to share the poem and video links... The monologue has been read by Sue, and if nothing else I hope you will be able to listen to it, and be... - "Top of Each Hour" Prayer Watches -- All on cue for You!
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
"Top of Each Hour" Prayer Watches -- Accept the challenge of Virtual 'High Fiving" (or "514-ing" -- all on cue for You, God! At the "top" (or start) of every hour won't you join me in putting a full stop to an alarm pre-set to go off on your wrist watch (or phone watch). My watch is preset as as an every waking hour... - Prayer Watch GEMs: Start & stay light-hearted! Ace your tests! Turn the tables on fables!
Sunday, April 5th, 2020
Prayer Watch GEMs—1. Start & stay spiritually light-hearted! 2. Ace your wilderness tests! 3. Turn the tables on fables to make “Loneliness, doubt, darkness… disappear”—like magic! - Win without a fight as the unreality of evil is prayerfully exposed to defeat itself
Saturday, April 4th, 2020
Whether we are: fighting, like the servants of the householder, with the age-old question of "where did evil come from”; facing down enemy nations; fearful for our own child's life; or overcoming a false world view, like Paul, we can yield to, "conform to," Christ who transforms every situation into one of spiritual... - A Prayer Watch GEM! — Stop the hacking VIRUS of humanism!
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
A Prayer Watch GEM! —Don’t be hacked from within by the VIRUS of unwise, “April Fool’s” atheism and its family members (according to Wikipedia) of “the supremacy of human reason… secular humanism… religious criticism…free-thought skepticism…” They all doubt Paul’s assertion that that “God is... - Anti-Virus, Prayer Watch GEMs! Every-thought obedience "in foxholes!"
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
A Prayer Watch GEM for you!—Don’t be hacked from within by the VIRUS of unwise, “April Fool’s” atheism and its family members (according to Wikipedia) of “the supremacy of human reason… secular humanism… religious criticism…free-thought skepticism…” They all doubt Paul’s assertion that that... - Stop suicide thoughts and actions
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
Suicide then it is in the thought of human nature. Therefore, it is in our thoughts and it comes in various guises. Statistics are beginning to show that more than ever before. Never have young people have such high suicide rates as just in recent years. ... Why? The arguments for suicide are all put right out there... - Don't be a Fearful April Fool! Fear Not GEMs for Prayer Watchers
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
[Warren:] My prayers this morning led me to the following, wonderful Sunday School testimony that illustrates the value of handling fear. As I read it, I “felt… the power of the Word” and hope you’ll feel it too! - Delight today in GEMs of Biblical therapy and its healing tree, fed by inspired Prayer Watch...
Monday, March 30th, 2020
Delight today in GEMs of Biblical therapy and its healing tree, fed by inspired Prayer Watch “channels of thought!” “My prayer some daily good to do to Thine, for Thee; An offering pure of Love, whereto God leadeth me.” Hymn 257 [Warren continued: Here’s where this “GEM of the Day” (God Expressed... - Make your own the GEM of seeing all past enemies as if on their “road to Damascus!” (B11)
Sunday, March 29th, 2020
Make your own the GEM of seeing all past enemies as if on their “road to Damascus!” Like Paul—& Ananias, totally drop past views of enemies to see all from a “God’s-eye-view.” Cobbey Crisler insights on Acts 9:1-20 (B11) & Paul’s conversion & healing through Ananias - Let’s learn about Spiritual Reality and use this in our Healing Practice!
Saturday, March 28th, 2020
your job is to wake up from the dream that you are a material creation to this bigger and better idea of what you truly are….GOD’S CHILD SPIRITUALLY MADE!!!!! That doesn’t mean that we discount what’s going on in the material world, and there’s a lot going on in the world right now - uncertainty... - Enjoy a string of Prayer Watch GEMs posted daily this week on Facebook by Ken Cooper!
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Enjoy today a string of sparkling Prayer Watch GEMs posted daily this week on Facebook by Ken Cooper! Plus a link to other Prayer Watch GEMs emailed earlier as mined from The Christian Science Bible Lesson on "Reality" for March 29, 2020. Enjoy a string of sparkling Prayer Watch GEMs from Ken Cooper! [W:]... - Paul's Tire Traversal to forget behind & reach out
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Here’s a CedarS application activity that we hope to be able to bring back to CedarS in our Bible Lands Park to bring to life Paul’s advice in Philippians 3:13: “…this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, I press toward the mark for the... - "Choose Good"-- Prayer Watch GEMs to Realize Reality for March 23-29, 2020
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Use Global Prayer Watch GEMs for World Health 2020 to choose "Reality" --the Christian Science Bible Lesson for March 23-29, 2020 - Glow each Wednesday with the GEM of Testimony sharing!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
Glow each Wednesday with the GEM of God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in Testimony sharing! It will be very worthwhile for you to connect online with your church in a Wednesday testimony meeting today! These services continue to show that healing continues to be an essential, divinely blessed part of Mary Baker... - GEMS to counter germs & the hosting & multiplying of CoVid-19
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
When it came to my attention that a virus is believed to multiply once it infects a cell within a susceptible body (or something like that), I looked for the counterfact to that belief. I considered Bible references to multiplying and found the most in Genesis where there are frequent promises of God making one... - Join a Prayer Watch--esp. for Health Care providers...
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
Join our Prayer Watch today by applying an Isaiah GEM for Health Care workers and all who serve! God promises they will be upheld! Being upright they’ll be able to keep serving to the delight of God’s soul! - Feel the weekly WOW of Bible-based GEMs in a Prayer Watch for World Health 2020!
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
Feel the weekly WOW of Bible-based GEMs in a Prayer Watch for World Health 2020! [Please ask others to join us whenever they can for a few moments in prayer at the top of each waking hour and for a 1-hr. Prayer Watch daily. To be official, email "I'm in!"] - A GEM for our Daily Global Prayer Watch!
Friday, March 20th, 2020
Grow your "treasures of Truth and Love" with a spiritual sense of “sanitizing”, “social distancing”, and “quarantining”. CedarS Board of Trustees and staff have been exchanging inspiration in response to our prayers about the world's current events. I’m sharing this uplift for further dissemination... - Accept Spirit as all to leave behind nothing but limiting lies (called matter)!
Monday, March 16th, 2020
As we follow the teachings and examples given in both the Bible and Science and Health we can awaken to the allness of God and demonstrate the powerlessness of material belief to have a hold on us. There is a law in operation — the law of Truth — that quiets fears and governs all mankind. As we bear witness to... - Uplift with love & smiles our Global Prayer Watch each day!
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
Ken Pratt and George Napper "burned the midnight oil" with Moses to help produce the a divinely-linked message of hope and "love from above" that is linked below. It was inspired by citations from Exodus chape\ters 3 and 4 found in Section 3 of the Christian Science Bible Lesson on "Matter." Last night's late-night... - Prayer Watch GEMs for Today!-Handle mortality, isolation, fear!
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
When what you’ve leaned upon fails, learn from our great I-Am-God-NOW like Moses did, how to face it with authority and handle it with dominion—as if it’s only an illusion! [Cobbey Crisler on Ex. 3 & 4 (partly as citations B10 and B11 for the 3-22-20 Christian Science Bible Lesson) - Open a PRAYER WATCH GEM & inspired links! "3rd time's the charm."
Sunday, March 15th, 2020
A daily antidote to the coronavirus miasma! We already have a fully-developed, omni-acting “antidote” to the coronavirus! It’s also a “cure, answer or remedy” for every other (known or as-yet-unknown) virus and for every so-called pandemic. It’s ours to discover in a moment-by-moment... - Rejoice That We Are Subject to the Divine Powers That Be!
Monday, March 9th, 2020
While all worldly solutions to life’s challenges are variable, the law of God and His word is fixed. His command is law, and shall stand forever. Nothing can ever undo what God ordains. Does that sound too good to be true? To mortal sense it does. As you study this week’s Lesson-Sermon you will find... - Join today's GLOBAL PRAYER WATCH for healing & growing your "treasures of Truth and Love!"
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
Grow your "treasures of Truth and Love" in today's GLOBAL PRAYER WATCH by feeling surrounded by walls of Salvation & gates of Praise to see God Expressed Meekly in YOU! - Be “...ever beautiful and complete!"
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Each one of us will get new and fresh inspiration from this week’s Bible Lesson on “Man.” For me, this week’s lesson helps us let go of an “old” and limited sense of being (man) and accept a “new” and unlimited understanding of our being (man). As we put off the “old” understanding of man, we find... - Mine the GEM of Being "Perfect for all to see!" surrounded by Salvation and praise!
Sunday, March 1st, 2020
Mine the GEM of feeling surrounded by walls of Salvation & gates of Praise to see God Expressed Meekly in YOU! (GT, Isa.60:18) — through Christ’s Animating Mindsets Practiced! (C.A.M.P.!) Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff with insights from Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper and others as related to The... - GEM of the Day--and of March Madness!
Sunday, March 1st, 2020
G.E.M. of the Day” – and of this “March Madness” Month! Make your own this precious A.P. (Answered Prayer) History gem from Eccl 3:14 (B24) by seeing ALL that you do as flowing in God’s perfect timing and placement –and for His glory! - Find out what it takes to follow the Master Christian!
Monday, February 24th, 2020
We have to be willing to leave the lure of materialism, to have a genuine desire to serve and bless, and we need to be persistent. We also have to practice, practice, practice! "Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which... - BONUS an Answered Prayer (A.P.) account of Divinely Abundant Supply!
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
The Christian Science Prayer or Treatment given to this case of lack: Instead of panicking, I again felt the radiant joy, inspired by many demonstrations of God’s abundant love as well as by my mom, Ruth E. Huff’s wonderful typical response at such times. I can always hear (in my thought) her classic, smiling... - Mine precious G.E.M.s shared by Christ Jesus!
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
Mine precious GEMs shared by Christ’ Jesus to see God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff with insights from Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper, and others as related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Christ Jesus” for March 1, 2020 - Recognize Mind, God, as the source of all good and all understanding!
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Whenever — for whatever reason — we may be tempted to feel hopeless or helpless about a situation, it is helpful — mandatory in fact — to remember that “Everything comes from him [God]; Everything happens through him; Everything ends up in him. Always glory! Always praise! Yes. Yes. Yes. (Rom. 11: 36, The... - BONUS account of Answered Prayer (A.P.) Demonstrations:
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
The Bible account of Joseph answering Pharaoh’s question about the humanly unknowable meaning of his dream (Genesis 41:1-57, B6) along with the correlated Science and Health citations in this week’s Bible lesson, remind me a precious time when these passages appeared in a Christian Science Bible Lesson as answers... - Mine the GEM of having Christ’s Mind-set to see God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU!
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
Mine the GEM of having Christ’s Mind-set to see God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff with insights from Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper, The Mary Baker Eddy Library and others as related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Mind” or 02/23/2020 - Find Your Heart Connection and Unite with Soul
Monday, February 10th, 2020
What does “Soul” mean to you? The most bizarre description I’ve ever heard is when someone said they always imagined soul as, “a vaporous white spot behind the heart that got splattered with a black spot for every sin.” Christian Scientists have an entirely different view of soul. Christian Science does not... - Bonus! Enjoy Your Happiest Valentine Day Yet by Looking for Love in all the Right Places!
Sunday, February 9th, 2020 - Mine the GEM of Love restoring your Soul sense to see God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU!
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Mine the GEM of Love restoring your Soul sense to see God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! — through Christ’s Animating Mindsets Practiced! (C.A.M.P.!) Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff with insights from Mary Baker Eddy, Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper and others related to The Christian Science Bible... - Gratefully Receive Spirit’s Ever-Present Gifts – and Ever-Fresh Fruits!
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Spirit is the source of all inspiration. Spirit inspires, illumines, and enlightens. Without Spirit, we’d have no zip or zest. But Spirit is ever-present, so we all have an ample supply of zip, zest, vim and vigor. Spirit gives us pizazz and joy and sparkles. Spirit also offers comfort and peace. Spirit’s gifts... - Mine fiery, freeing GEMs of Spirit's presence
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
Mine fiery, freeing GEMs of Spirit's presence with God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! — through Christ’s Animating Mindsets Practiced! (C.A.M.P.!) Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff with insights from Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper and others related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Spirit”... - Be fully persuaded that you and we all are one with divine Love!
Monday, January 27th, 2020
Many things attempt to make us feel that we are separate from Love: loneliness, hatred and strife with others, actual war, anger and bitterness, fear and disease, and finally, the great red dragon symbolizing "...the belief that substance, life, and intelligence can be material." (SH p.563:8-9 the belief) As you might... - G'hog Day BONUS: Break thru repeated lies! Unselfishly grow your treasures of Truth today!
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Here are two divine laws that seemed to be blatantly violated and ineffective for Bill Murray, and maybe for you: 1) The 3rd commandment, that could be read as this heavenly promise: "As God's reflection, 'Thou shalt not (be able to) take God's name (nature) in vain';" (or to no avail) and 2) The divine law that... - Mine precious G.E.M.s of LOVE as your own!
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Mine PRECIOUS G.E.M.s of Love as God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! as related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Love” for 02/02/2020 - Wield the sword of Truth to cut thru fables
Monday, January 20th, 2020
We are encouraged in this Lesson to arm ourselves with the sword of Truth, or Spirit, which is the Word of God, not be afraid of whatever evil suggestion may present itself, and vigorously go after it in order to eliminate it. Truth destroys error completely — leaving no residue. There is some mention of truth and... - Mine “Truth” G.E.M.s to end all fables with God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU!
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
Mine precious “Truth” G.E.M.s of God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! — through Christ’s Animating Mindsets Practiced! (C.A.M.P.!) Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff from insights by Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper and others related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on - Pause and Listen. [Take in being on holy ground and follow Life’s next steps.]
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Throughout this week’s Lesson we see the need for going further in our understanding of God. The God spoken of by the psalmist in the Golden Text isn’t a tribal idol that needs placating to get Him or Her to help us. The God of Israel is the living God, the author, giver, and maintainer of all creation... - Mine precious “Life” G.E.M.s of God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU!
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
Mine precious “Life” G.E.M.s of God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in YOU! Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff from insights by Cobbey Crisler, Ken Cooper and others related to The Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Life” for January 19, 2020 - Discover true worship
Monday, January 6th, 2020
Sacramental acts affirm our connection to God. Sacramental acts typically entail humble kneeling, taking communion, or other forms of worship. When we start from the premise that we are inseparable from God, like a sunbeam is inseparable from the sun, we can see that these acts are not what makes us connected... - Mine precious G.E.M.s meant for you from the Holy Bible & its lands
Sunday, January 5th, 2020
Mine precious G.E.M.s meant for you from C.A.M.P. in God Expressed Meekly/Mightily in you by Christ’s Animating Mindsets Practiced! Wholeheartedly SEEK the spiritual love of God and its unspeakable peace (shalom)! Application ideas “mined” by Warren Huff from insights by Cobbey Crisler, The Mary Baker Eddy...
