Sunday services are conducted by a First and Second Reader and include music, hymns, prayer, and readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Unless otherwise indicated, Scriptural selections are from the King James Version of the Bible.
Sunday, February 1, 2026
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
From God I Will Not Part, BWV 658 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Melody in F Major by Eric Thiman
Scriptural Selection
The Scriptural Selection is from First Corinthians (13:1-13) as found in the New King James Version of the Bible
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
Love Never Fails
Though I may speak with the heat of fire
And have the power to inspire
But have no love, I may as well
Beat a rusty drum, blow an empty shell
Though I may know all there is to know
And prophesy how the world will go
But have no love, then lost I am
My words are vain as grains of sand
Love is not proud, makes no parade
Love keeps no score. Love is not afraid
Love always hopes. Love always hears
Love never fails, never disappears
Text from I Corinthians 13
Words adapted by Mindy Jostyn & Jacob Brackman
Music: American folk tune
(Concept inspired by Hal Hopson’s “Gift Of Love”)
© 2005 Say No More Publishing BMI & Maya Productions Ltd. (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved.
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
Psalms 36:7 (to !)
How precious, O God, is your constant love!
The Golden Text is from the Good News Translation in Today's English Version—Second Edition.
Responsive Reading:
Psalms 138:1 (to :), 2–5, 8 (to 2nd :)
Psalms 68:4 (to :), 5, 6 (to 2nd :), 19, 26
Psalms 48:1, 9, 10 (to :), 14 (to :)
138:1 I will praise thee with my whole heart:
2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever:
68:4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name:
5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains:
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.
26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
48:1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:
14 For this God is our God for ever and ever:
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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Adagio K.356 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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:
Hag. 2:19 from
Postlude
Con moto maestoso (from Sonata III) by Felix Mendelssohn
Copyright
Scriptural selection taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The Golden Text is from the Good News Translation in Today's English Version—Second Edition, copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.
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