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, November 23, 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: SOUL AND BODY
Prelude:
Bryan Ashley, Organist
Deck Thyself, My Soul, With Gladness, BWV 654 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymn 324
Frances R. Havergal, adapted, words
Arr. from G. F. Händel, music
Take my life, and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.
Take my voice, and let me sing
Always, only, for my King.
Take my lips, and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.
Take my every thought, to use
In the way that Thou shalt choose.
Take my love; O Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
I am Thine, and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.
Scriptural Selection
I Corinthians 12:13–18 by, 21–23, 25, 30, 31
Matthew 6:22
Prayer
Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord’s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy
(Read in context)
Hymn 162
Mary Baker Eddy, words
Percy Whitlock, music
It matters not what be thy lot,
So Love doth guide;
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine,
Whate’er betide.
And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones,
God able is
To raise up seed—in thought and deed—
To faithful His.
Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence!
Our God is good.
False fears are foes—truth tatters those,
When understood.
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.
The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,
God’s glorified!
Who doth His will—His likeness still—
Is satisfied.
Notices
Solo
Josh Henn, Soloist of The Mother Church
The Body is the Temple
Now are ye light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light
Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.
Man’s being is immortal,
Always beautiful and grand.
He’s the image and expression of Soul,
The idea of One Mind,
Unlimited, and divine.
He’s not physical, but spiritual and whole.
The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost;
The kingdom of heaven is within.
In its sacred, holy place
Man finds goodness and grace
Are the light and the health of all men.
The real and ideal man
Dwells in harmony and peace;
He is sinless, deathless, and free.
Governed by eternal Mind,
By purity defined,
The Christ-man is his true identity.
The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost;
The substance of Life, Truth, and Love.
This is God’s perfect child.
His being is undefiled.
He inherits dominion from above.
Now are ye light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light
Proving what is acceptable to the Lord.
Words and music © Carolyn Kardinal.
© 2013 Carolyn Kardinal
Courtesy of Watchfire Music, all rights reserved
Explanatory Note
Golden Text and Responsive Reading
Golden Text:
I Thessalonians 5:23
May the God who gives us peace make you holy in every way and keep your whole being—spirit, soul, and body—free from every fault at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Golden Text is from the Good News Translation in Today's English Version—Second Edition.
Responsive Reading:
John 2:13–16 Jesus, 18–22
Romans 8:1
John 2:13 . . . Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Rom. 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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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Meditation by Flor Peeters
Hymn 565
Peter B. Allen, words
Peter B. Allen, music
Rise up and walk, take up your bed.
With these few words the sickness fled.
Stretch forth your hand. Receive your sight.
Jesus’ commands reveal God’s might.
You are God’s purpose, His great design.
Beautiful, blameless, His child divine.
Holding your thought to the good and the true,
Spirit will form you anew.
REFRAIN
Rise up and walk! God made you free,
Born of His liberty.
Carefree and strong, you are His song,
Perfect for all to see.
Mountains and seas, great rising trees,
Echo the joyous song:
Heaven is here, harmony’s bliss
To everyone belongs.
Cleanse the lepers, heal the sick.
Cast out demons. Raise the dead.
Truth is revealed in every place,
Throughout all time, throughout all space.
Right in this moment, doing God’s will
“These works shall you do, and greater still.”
Standing triumphant upon holy ground,
Songs of the angels resound.
REFRAIN
Words and Music © 2008 Peter B. Allen.
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:
Psalms 65:4
Postlude
Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 by Dietrich Buxtehude
Copyright
The Golden Text for "Soul and Body" 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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