October 7th Lecture: "How Spiritual Ideas Work In Us"

Melanie Wahlberg, C.S.

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

"How Spiritual Ideas Work In Us"

Speaker: Melanie Wahlberg, C.S.

Date: Monday, October 7, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Tulsa

For more information, call (918) 742-5711

Member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship

How spiritual ideas work in us

In the middle of difficult circumstances, it would be so reassuring to feel supported in our efforts for progress, instead of feeling alone. In this talk, I discuss what I’ve found helpful in my practice of Christian Science healing: that God loves us deeply, is an active presence of good in our lives, and provides fresh ideas about our spiritual nature that wipe away fear and reveal inspired solutions.

By turning to God for help, we open up to divine ideas and feel the presence of God in tangible ways, ways that change our lives and our health for the better. I call this healing.

During the lecture, I explore God as Spirit, Love, and Mind, rather than as a man-like figure making arbitrary decisions about our lives. This divine Mind is the one source of all good and true ideas. So God’s thoughts remind us of our spiritual identity, guide us to express more love, and show us our divine intelligence.

I talk about Christ Jesus’ teachings in the Bible as being the best example of how to heal by listening to these ideas. And I delve into Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as the explanation of Christian Science healing based on Christ Jesus’ life. I give examples of how this healing approach has transformed lives, including a mother and her infant daughter who experienced physical healing. The mother said, “It felt like the ideas themselves did the work.”

June 27th Lecture: "A New View of God and Its Effect on Well-Being"

Phillip Hockley, C.S.

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

"A New View of God and Its Effect on Well-Being"

Speaker: Phillip Hockley, C.S.

Date: Thursday, June 27, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.

Location: First Church of Christ, Scientist, Norman

For more information, call (405) 321-4298

Member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship

A new view of God and its effect on well-being

When most people think about life-changing moments, they may not think of a lecture on Christian Science. That wasn’t why I attended a lecture for the first time; I didn’t expect to walk out a new person. But I found something in that lecture that was indeed life-transforming. Christian Science gave me a new view of God that I’d not had before: a view of God as Love itself, divine Love that loved me fully. I also discovered that this loving God was not the source of my troubles (which were many) but the solution to them. My life began to improve quickly after that and I became a healthy man after many years of suffering.

There’s no question that I was jubilant about the way my life was being transformed. But what impressed me the most was finding out that these kinds of breakthroughs aren’t one-time, personal miracles. God’s love is available to everyone, and there’s even a textbook on Christian Science healing that explains the power of God’s love in our lives: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

What I’ve gone on to learn, and what I’ll share in my lecture, is that the perspective of God and reality that Christian Science opens up is one that offers freedom from whatever in our lives seems painful, debilitating, or limiting. I’ll talk about a 19th-century woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who, after a life-threatening injury, discovered this new view of God for herself and went on to explain her discovery and its Bible-based principles in her book Science and Health. And I’ll share how that discovery is still relevant to our lives today because of what it reveals about God’s great love for each of us and its powerful, life-transforming effects.

Annual Meeting of The Mother Church to be broadcast live at local branch churches

The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, MA.

This year’s Annual Meeting of The Mother Church and the weekend activities leading up to it (June 1 through June 3) will be streamed live over the Internet at the following branch churches:

(1) In the church auditorium at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Oklahoma City;

(2) At the Christian Science Reading Room of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Tulsa; and

(3) Annual Meeting on June 3 will be broadcast in the East Wing of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Norman.

The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting is “. . . that we may be able . . .” from II Corinthians 1:3, 4.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.” — II Cor. 1:3, 4

Here's the full schedule:

Saturday, June 1
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (CDT)
"An Able Ministry: When healing is too real to keep to ourselves"

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. (CDT)
"Singing with Hearts United: Join together in the joy and comfort of our hymns"

Sunday, June 2
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (CDT)
"An Able Church: When we feel the Christ-power in church, it extends to embrace the world"

Monday, June 3
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (CDT)
Annual Meeting of The Mother Church
"... that we may be able ..." (II Corinthians 1:4)

Church members are welcome to join together to view these activities online at the above locations.

For more information about Annual Meeting, please visit The Mother Church's website.