Online Sunday church service

Sunday, April 26, 2026

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

Melanie L. Daglian, Guest First Reader
Robert Witney, Second Reader

Subject: Probation After Death

Prelude:

Bryan Ashley, Organist

Melody by Horatio W. Parker
Prelude & Cantilena (from Suite in E Major) by Everett Titcomb

Scriptural Selection

Romans 7:14 we, 18-25 (to 1st .)
Romans 8: 1-6, 11 if, 12-13
Philippians 3: 12 (to :), 13-15

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

Kendra Fogg, Soloist of The Mother Church​

Christ My Refuge

O’er waiting harpstrings of the mind
There sweeps a strain,
Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind
The power of pain,

And wake a white-winged angel throng
Of thoughts, illumed
By faith, and breathed in raptured song,
With love perfumed.

Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show
Life’s burdens light.
I kiss the cross, and wake to know
A world more bright.

And o’er earth’s troubled, angry sea
I see Christ walk,
And come to me, and tenderly,
Divinely talk.

Thus Truth engrounds me on the rock,
Upon Life’s shore,
‘Gainst which the winds and waves can shock,
Oh, nevermore!

From tired joy and grief afar,
And nearer Thee, —
Father, where Thine own children are,
I love to be.

My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.

Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Desiree Goyette
© 2001 Lightschild publishing BMI All Rights Reserved

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text: 

Psalms 68:20

Our God is a God Who sets us free. The way out of death belongs to God the Lord.

The Golden Text is from the New Life Version.

Responsive Reading:  

Titus 2:11–15 the (to 1st .)
Philippians 2:5, 9–11 God, 12 work, 13

Titus 2:11 . . . the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
Phil. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
9 . . . God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
12 . . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

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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Meditation by Flor Peeters

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:

I John 2:25 this

Postlude

Salvation Has Come to Us, BWV 638 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude by William Mathias

Copyright

The Golden Text is from the New Life Version, copyright © 1969 and 2003. Used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Inc., Uhrichsville, OH 44683. All rights reserved.
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