A Sentinel Watch interview with John Biggs.
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Click here to listen.
In this podcast, Rewriting the Present, John talks about how he has learned to rethink challenging situations and turn them into blessings and even physical healings.
A Sentinel Watch interview with John Biggs.
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Click here to listen.
In this podcast, Rewriting the Present, John talks about how he has learned to rethink challenging situations and turn them into blessings and even physical healings.
Posted December 8, 2025 by cscanberra in Christian Science healing, Consciousness, Healing, JSH, Metaphysics, Sentinel Watch, Thought, Wellbeing
Tagged with Fearless living, John Biggs, Sentinel Watch
An interview with John Biggs. Click here to listen.
In this podcast John talks about how a new hobby of his – learning magic card tricks – gave him an insight into how spiritual healing happens. He explains that he leaned that in card tricks the audience believes they see something that wasn’t there or didn’t happen because they become distracted from the truth of what is happening by the performance. Healing in Christian Science is not magic but when we are distracted by an inharmonious situation we are blinded to the truth of what is really happening. Being alert to the distraction and focussing on the spiritual truth allows us to experience the true harmony of any situation. In this interview John explains this fully and gives examples of his own healings.
Posted November 4, 2025 by cscanberra in Christian Science healing, Consciousness, Metaphysics, Podcasts, Sentinel Watch, spiritual healing, Testimony of Healing, Thought
Tagged with John Biggs, spiritual healing explained
An article by a member of the Canberra Christian Science community (alternatively titled: Practice is essential) which was published in the 6 October 2025 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
I was walking across the lawn at the front of our house, enjoying the cool, squishy feeling of the grass under my bare feet, when suddenly there was an agonizing burning in my left foot. I live in Australia, where there are many things that bite and sting, and a pain of that magnitude is not a good thing. I spun around, looked down, and saw that I had been stung by a large wasp.
An often-used expression in Christian Science is “Know the truth.” It comes from Christ Jesus’ instruction “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). Immediately, I did so, and as quickly as the first truthful, healing thought came, the pain left. There was no evidence of a sting, and I had no further reaction to it.
So what does knowing the truth really entail, and how can we be instant in our knowing of this truth that heals and protects?
As you can imagine, I was really grateful for the instantaneous nature of this healing. But healings are also wonderful learning experiences. Instead of thinking, “Wow! I’m glad that awful situation has passed,” I value how healings can help me to learn more about the law of God, divine Love, which governs me and all situations. I stop and think, “What worked there? Where was my thinking—was it on God or on the situation itself? What can I learn from this that will help me to be a more effective healer?”
I learned two lessons from this incident with the wasp. … Click here to read the full article: Practice is essential
Posted October 14, 2025 by cscanberra in Christ message, Christian Science Canberra, Christian Science healing, Consciousness, Deborah Packer, Healing, Healing and animals, JSH, Metaphysics, spiritual healing, spiritual identity, Testimony of Healing, Thought
Tagged with Deborah Packer, Healing, spiritual healing explained
These readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures are on the topic of spiritual understanding.
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Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p209: 31)
Posted October 12, 2025 by cscanberra in childlike receptivity, Christ message, Christian Science Canberra, Consciousness, God, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Thought, Wednesday Testimony Meeting
Tagged with Spiritual Sense, spiritual understanding
These readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures relate to seeing through the mortal dream.
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The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p530: 26-29)
Posted September 25, 2025 by cscanberra in Christian Science, Consciousness, disease, Health, Metaphysics, Spirituality, Thought, Wednesday Testimony Meeting, Wellbeing
Tagged with Adam Dream, Mortal dream, spiritual reality
An interview with Jan Keeler, David Driver, William Palmer, Eva-Maria Hogrefe. Click here to listen to this 47 minute podcast.
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If God really is all good and omnipresent, then where did evil come from and how can it exist?
Posted July 20, 2025 by cscanberra in Christian Science healing, Consciousness, Healing, Metaphysics, Podcasts, spiritual healing, Testimony of Healing, Thought
Tagged with Evil, Is evil real?
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Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures p124: 25-26 by Mary Baker Eddy)
Posted February 12, 2025 by cscanberra in Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, Metaphysics, spiritual identity
Tagged with inspirational thoughts, True identity
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Spirit is the life, substance, and continuity of all things.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p124)
Posted July 7, 2024 by cscanberra in Christ message, Christian Science, God, Identity, Mary Baker Eddy, Metaphysics, spiritual identity
Tagged with spiritual identity, Spiritual substance
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Spiritual living and blessedness are the only evidences, by which we can recognize true existence and feel the unspeakable peace which comes from an all-absorbing spiritual love.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p264)
Posted March 8, 2024 by cscanberra in Christ-ideas, Christian Science, Consciousness, Happiness, Mary Baker Eddy, Metaphysics, Peace, Renewal, Spiritual Comfort, Spirituality, Thought, Values, Wellbeing
Tagged with Meaningful Life, Peace, Spiritual living, spiritual love
Wednesday Testimony Meeting Readings.
This recording is of the readings on the topic: Mental Might
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And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
(The Bible KJV – Mark 11: 22-24)
Posted November 5, 2023 by cscanberra in Christ message, Christian Science Canberra, Consciousness, God, Mary Beattie, Metaphysics, Prayer, Thought, Wednesday Testimony Meeting
Tagged with Divine Mind, Faith, Mental Power, Power of Thought