Online Sunday church service

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Susan Booth Mack Snipes, First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader

Subject: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Prelude

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

From Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book):
   From Heaven on High I Come, BWV 606
   This Day Is So Joyful, BWV 605
   Jesu, My Joy, BWV 610
   Praised be Thou, Jesus Christ, BWV 604
by Johann Sebastian Bach

Scriptural Selection

Isa. 40:1, 2 (to :), 3–5, 9–11, 26–29; 42:4

Prayer

Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)

Notices

Solo

Evan Bryant, Soloist of The Mother Church

The Promised Comforter is Come

The promised Comforter is come, as Christ said.
The Science of the Christ is here, as Christ said.
No longer need we suffer cruel creed or earth-borne fear.
The Comforter is come to heal us of our selfish dreams.
The Spirit of Truth is come, and guiding us into all truth.
But whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak,
And we shall hear when we are pure in heart and truly meek.
We then shall purify ourselves even as He is pure.
The promised Comforter is come, as Christ said.
The Science of the Christ is here, as Christ said.
No longer need we suffer cruel creed or earth-borne fear.
The Comforter is come to heal us of our selfish dreams.

Music & Words by Glenn Heck

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text:  

II Corinthians 9:15

Let us thank God for his priceless gift!
The Golden Text is from the Good News Translation in Today's English Version—Second Edition.

Responsive Reading:  

Luke 1:39–41 Mary, 57, 67, 76–79 thou
I Corinthians 12:7–9 the, 11; 3:11, 23

Luke 1:39 . . . Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
57 Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
76 . . . thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
I Cor. 12:7 . . . the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

The Bible Lesson-Sermon, the Explanatory Note, Golden Text and Responsive Reading are from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, a publication copyrighted by the Christian Science Publishing Society.

Offertory and collection

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In dulci jubilo (In quiet joy) by Marcel Dupré

Scientific Statement of Being

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p.468, line 8

Correlative Scripture

I John 3:1-3 

Benediction

Luke 12:32

Postlude

Carillon de Westminster by Louis Vierne

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