Online Sunday church service

Sunday, July 6, 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: GOD

Prelude:

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

Adagio con espressione (from Chorale Fantasia Op. 52/2) by Max Reger
Choral No. 1 in E Major (Part 1) by César Franck

Scriptural Selection

Jer. 1:4 the, 5, 7 Say, 9 Behold, 10 ; 23:23, 24, 28, 29; 30:3, 8, 10, 11 (to 1st :), 17 (to ;), 19, 22

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

Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church

I Am The Lord

I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me

But know me from the rising sun to the west
There is none beside me
For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me

I even I am he that comforteth you
Who art thou that thou should’st be
Afraid of a man that shall die
And of the son of man
Which shall be made as grass

For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me

Cease ye from man
Made of the earth
For wherein is he accounted of
But rather look ye
Only to Him
Whose life is in everlasting Love

For I am the Lord
There is none else
There is no God beside me
I girded thee
Though thou hast not even known me
I am the Lord

Text adapted from Isaiah 2:22; 45:5-6; 51:12
Music by Desiree Goyette
© 1994 Lightchild Publishing

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text: 

Isaiah 43:12 ye

. . . ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.

Responsive Reading:  

John 1:1–4
Psalms 119:89, 97, 103, 104 (to :), 105, 111, 116 (to :), 127 I love, 129, 130, 151, 160; 77:13 who, 14

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Ps. 119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding:
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live:
127 . . . I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
151 Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.
160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
77:13 . . . who is so great a God as our God?
14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

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.

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He who lets only beloved God guide him  BWV 690 (Hymn 216) by Johann Sebastian Bach

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:

Isa. 41:10

Postlude

Choral No. 1 in E Major (Part 2) by C. Franck

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