Online Sunday church service

Sunday, August 3, 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: LOVE

Prelude:

Bryan Ashley, Organist of The Mother Church

Tierce en taille by François Couperin
Adorate Dominum by Théodore Salomé
Adagio (from Choral No. 3 in A minor) by César Franck

Scriptural Selection

II Kings 4:8 it, 17–21, 25–27 (to 1st :), 30, 32–37

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

Love

Brood o’er us with Thy shelt’ring wing,
‘Neath which our spirits blend
Like brother birds, that soar and sing,
And on the same branch bend.
The arrow that doth wound the dove
Darts not from those who watch and love.

If thou the bending reed wouldst break
By thought or word unkind,
Pray that his spirit you partake,
Who loved and healed mankind:
Seek holy thoughts and heavenly strain,
That make men one in love remain.

Learn, too, that wisdom’s rod is given
For faith to kiss, and know;
That greetings glorious from high heaven,
Whence joys supernal flow,
Come from that Love, divinely near,
Which chastens pride and earth-born fear,

Through God, who gave that word of might
Which swelled creation’s lay:
“Let there be light, and there was light.”
What chased the clouds away?
‘Twas Love whose finger traced aloud
A bow of promise on the cloud.

Thou to whose power our hope we give,
Free us from human strife.
Fed by Thy love divine we live,
For Love alone is Life;
And life most sweet, as heart to heart
Speaks kindly when we meet and part.

Words by Mary Baker Eddy
Music by Nan Butcher
© 1983 The Christian Science Board of Directors, All Rights Reserved

Explanatory Note

Golden Text and Responsive Reading

Golden Text: 

II Corinthians 13:11 the

. . . the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Responsive Reading:  

Deuteronomy 6:4, 5; 7:7–9; 8:2, 7, 9 (to ;), 10

6:4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
7:7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
7 For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it;
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

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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Of the Father's Love Begotten by Christopher Uehlein

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:

Deuteronomy 33:12 The

Postlude

Lord Christ, The One Begotten Son, BWV 601 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Processional by William Mathias

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