Readings from testimony meeting on January 8, 2020
Hymns: 217, 221, 601
The Bible
Job 23:1-6 Job, 8-10
Job 32:6 (to 1st,), 8 there
Psalms 11:4 (to :)
Psalms 18: 6 I
Psalms 27:4
Matthew 4:23
Luke 17:20 (to 3rd ,), 21 behold
I Corinthians 3:16
Matthew 21:10-14
John 2:18-22
Ephesians 2:13-15 in, 19-22
Revelation 21:2, 3, 5 (to 1st .), 9 (to 1st ,), 10, 22, 23; 22:17
​Psalms 27:6
Science and Health
​595:7
288:20-28, 31-2
313:23-26; 314:8-16, 19
27:10
597:10
142:11-24
428:8-23
494:2
576:15
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Readings from testimony meeting on January 1st, 2020
Hymns:  2, 56, 166
The Bible
Leviticus 27:9 all
Psalms 102:24-28
John 3:1-17
Luke 19:1-9
Proverbs 3:1-13
Lamentations 5:21
Acts 3:25-26
Matthew 5:6
Science and Health
162:4
4:32-13
124:32-126:7
193:32-9
253:18-5
219:6-32
23:32-19
322:3
​224:4-7

A son is born! What does this mean?
Here are some of the Bible promises: 
      There is deliverance for the captives of sense.
      Sight is restored to the blind.
      Those who are hurt/damaged will be restored.
      The is light when all seems dark.
      His government is here and will increase.
      With his government there is judgment, justice, equality.
      God has set before us an open door that no person can close.
      We will see the glory of God.
      There will be mercy for those who are afflicted.
      What we ask for, righteously, we will receive.
      The longing soul will be fed and the hungry soul will be filled with goodness.
       We will come out of the shadow of death.
       Restraints will be broken.
       Salvation is here and now.
       We can begin now to see ourselves as God sees us.
Thanks be to God for His/Her unspeakable gift of the Christ, and for the great revelation of Christian Science, to explain to us what the Christ means for us!

And thanks be to God that this Christ-message is protected by God from the stress, apathy, ignorance, materiality, hatred, etc. that the world can dish out. As convention could not make Joseph abandon Mary, the fear and hatred of Herod could not prevent the message that put the young Jesus safely out of his reach, and the cross could not prevent the resurrection, Christ and Christian Science will survive and thrive!  

Readings from testimony meeting on December 25th, 2019
Hymns:  23, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!" ,  "Silent Night"
The Bible
Luke 1:46-55
Isaiah 9:6
Matthew 14:22-36
Matthew 16:5-17
Acts 1:1-8
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 of
Ephesians 4:4-7, 11-13 he
1 John 3:22-24 whatsoever
Science and Health
109:24-12
497:24
2:4
312:31-314:9
4:17-30
​vii:2-21

Readings from testimony meeting on December 18th, 2019
Hymns:  88, 42, 58

The Bible
John 4:24
Psalms 95:1 (to:),2, 6,7(to:)
1 Corinthians 2:9-12 as
Psalms 99:9
Revelation 1:1,3,4(to 1st;), 9-11
Revelation 2:1 (to 1st ;), 2-5 (to;),7(to;)
Titus 3:8 (to 1st)
Matthew 5:16
Galatians 5:22 the, 23, 25
Science and Health
213:11-12
594:19
93:2-7
261:32-7
342:21
275:26
290:10
264:15-20
63:5

Readings from testimony meeting on November 20, 2019
Hymns: 130, 482, 12
The Bible
Matthew 5:8
2 Timothy 1:3-4
Psalms 34:8, 12-15
Isaiah 41:17-20
John 5:1-9 (to :)
Acts 3:1-9
Proverbs 20:11-12, 7
2 Corinthians 4:1-2
2 Peter 3:13-14, 17-18
Science and Health
38:24
86:20-1
151:23-30
284:4-285:6
323:28-18
452:4-20
510:9
515:25-13
​337:14

Readings from testimony meeting on November 13, 2019
Hymns: 572, 579, 592
The Bible
Habakkuk 1:13
Matthew 16:13–18
Deuteronomy 6:24, 25
Deuteronomy 12:28
II Corinthians 9:8
Genesis 1:31
Science and Health
1:1–4
SH 141:13
SH 140:25
SH 205:15
SH 130:9
SH 340:23

Readings from testimony meeting on November 6, 2019
Hymns
342
280
168
The Bible
Psalms 51:12
Psalms 23:1-3
II Kings 8:1-6
Matthew 17:11
Luke 6:1-10, 12
Mark 8:22-25
Galatians 6:1,2
Joel 2:25-26, 28, 32
Jeremiah 30:17 (to ;)
Science and Health
578:5-9
347:14-22
585:9-14
53:8-15
51:19-24
390:7-9
423:7-14
375:17-25
162:16-28
184:16-21, 27-5
348:26-2
578:16-18

Readings for the Wednesday testimony meeting of October 30, 2019
Hymns
29
82
493
From the Bible
Matt. 4:23
Matt. 11:5
Matt. 24:14
Matt. 26:6–13
Mark 1:14, 15
Mark 13:9, 10
Mark 16:15
Rom. 1:1
Acts 20:16–20, 22–24
Rom. 1:16
Gal. 1:11
Phil. 1:15–17
Phil. 1:27
Ex. 20:16
From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
​SH xi:22
SH 32:28–26
SH 337:14–16
SH 113:23
SH 327:24–26
SH 461:24–25
SH 576:26–4

After I pulled together a variety of citations for use at our testimony meeting last week, I had time to study them. They were rich with a simple, clear concept: God knows our needs and supplies what we need before we even ask.
This can be a revolutionary concept to the human mind, which tends to find things lacking or insufficient, and sees problems as a result. Even as a Christian Scientist who has a long practice of praying for solutions, this hit me in an important place.  Did I really believe what Jesus said? What about those things I've prayed about for some time, and am still waiting for help with them?
The next morning in my early prayers, as I looked at the list of things I planned to pray about that day, there was something on my list that hadn't had an answer. I'd prayed for one, over and over. This time, I heard a loud thought "I have given you the answer already. You just haven't recognized it."
Well, maybe it was time to take another look!
Over the weekend, I'd suffered from a kink in my back. I had not known how to pray about it, but a particular statement which is recorded in a biography of Mary Baker Eddy had been repeating itself in my thought. I connected it and took that as my direction. Then, I read an article that I'd pulled out of JSH online a few days before and was sitting in my browser. That took the idea even further. These ideas were just right to set up all my prayer for the morning.
I had planned to paint my bedroom that day. The weather would be good, one of the last nice days this year, which meant I could paint with the windows open. When I was first up, I wasn't sure I felt up to it. But after my prayer, I did. I carried a ladder and all my supplies up two floors to my bedroom, then cleaned and prepped the walls, and proceeded to put on a first coat of paint. 
In the meantime, I thought that there might be a connection in thought between another quandary and the difficulty with my back. I was coordinating a big Toastmasters speech contest for the coming weekend. Despite contacting many people, I was still short on qualified judges. I was stumped on what to do. As I took a lunch break before going back to put a second coat of paint on the walls, I thought about how I had not really prayed about this. I realized I couldn't continue to assume that I couldn't find judges and at the same time be relishing that God meets every need. This speech contest was a very good idea, and it didn't make sense that God would leave out the resources required. I decided right then and there not to agree with any fear that we would not have what we needed.
A little over two hours later, I was done painting. My back, while not fully healed, had not hindered me in the slightest and was actually feeling much better than it had when I started. AND - I had all four judges I needed for the contest. In fact, later in the day I would start declining people who were volunteering, which they continued to do for the rest of the week. We were amply supplied, with leftovers! (See the account of Jesus feed the multitude, with twelve baskets of food left over, much more than the original amount of food.) Someone asked me later if I had enough judges. When I said I was turning them down, she was surprised and said that never happens. Well, it did!
Later I sat down to pray quietly with the ideas that had come to me early in the morning. I was uplifted by them, and during that quiet time my back was completely healed. 
A week later, my back is still completely fine. And the speech contest was a great success! 
​- KK