First Church of Christ, Scientist, Canberra   3 comments

Located on the corner of Macquarie and Bligh Streets in Barton, ACT, Australia.

Sunday Services and Sunday School are at 10.00 am. Wednesday Testimony Meetings are at 6.15 pm. Both these sessions are available via Zoom: One tap mobile +61370182005,,84673365039# or +61280156011 Meeting ID 84673365039 or via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84673365039#success

Reading Room: Monday-Friday 11.00-2.00 – Phone 02 6273 1715

The podcast beginning on Tuesday 7 July is: What do sports teach us about spiritual qualities? Guests: Seth Johnson and Tony Lobl

To listen to the current interview click on the Podcasts tab in the menu bar above.

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Posted February 25, 2021 by cscanberra in Christian Science Canberra, Church

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Church   Leave a comment

These readings are from the Bible (KJV) and from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and are on the topic of  Church.

Church. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p583: 12)

Love for All   Leave a comment

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p266: 18)

The Inspired Word of the Bible   Leave a comment

These readings are from the Bible (KJV) and from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. They explore the topic of The Inspired Word of the Bible.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

(The Bible – Romans 15: 4)

A Desire to be Good   Leave a comment

Simply asking that we may love God will never make us love Him; but the longing to be better and holier, expressed in daily watchfulness and in striving to assimilate more of the divine character, will mould and fashion us anew, until we awake in His likeness.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p4: 17)

All Things Work Together for Good   1 comment

These readings are from the Bible (KJV) and from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and explore the idea that All Things Work Together for Good.

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.

(Christian Science Hymnal 160 – Satisfied by Mary Baker Eddy)

God is Ever Present   Leave a comment

These readings are from the Bible (KJV) and from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and are on the topic of God as Ever Present.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

(The Bible KJV – Psalm 139: 1-3)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(The Bible KJV – Romans 8: 35, 37-39)

Our relationship with God—what is it really?   Leave a comment

A Sentinel Watch Podcast with Deborah Packer

If you’ve ever felt far away from God, this podcast is for you. Deborah Packer, shares what she’s learned from Jesus’ teachings, and her own experiences, about how close we actually always are with God. And how understanding this oneness better can bring us healing and help us heal others, too. Click here to listen.

Posted June 8, 2026 by cscanberra in Uncategorized

You Cannot Be Separated from God   Leave a comment

These readings are from the Bible (KJV) and from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and explore the idea of Our inseparability with God.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there shall thy hand lead me,

(The Bible – Psalm 139: 1-3, 7-10)

Searching the Heart   Leave a comment

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p18: 28)

Adoration, Not Aging   1 comment

This article by Deirdre Kindthistle was first published in the March 2026 issue of The Christian Science Journal.

… For most of my life I had not given much consideration to age. But some time ago I realized that thoughts of aging had crept into my consciousness, eating away at my sense of self and my capacity for enjoying many physical activities. Suddenly my joints were stiff. I was tired all the time. My movements had become clumsy. If friends proposed a hike in the mountains, I hesitated to join them, for when I did, I ended up grunting along, trailing behind the others. If a day’s outing was suggested, I weighed it against enjoying my usual twice-daily naps.