First Church of Christ, Scientist - Roanoke
1155 Overland Rd. Roanoke, Virginia 24015
One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, “Love thy neighbor as thyself;” annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry, — whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.
— Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 340
What if good is inevitable? There is a reason for unshakable joy!
Sometimes we can feel that joy seems hard to find – and seems even harder to keep! But what if joy is really fundamental to our nature? What if it is something all of us have permanently?
Christian Science lecturer Steve Salt, CSB, says, “What if we could find the good in life for which our hearts yearn is invulnerable to surrounding events, that it’s never ‘on the line’ for any reason, actually? If there was a way to trust that, and to prove it, that would give us a compelling reason to have hope. Even a reason for unshakeable joy. Christian Science explains the incredible good endowed on us by God–a good all of us deserve and can even expect–all the time.”
Mr. Salt will share how he was healed of mental darkness, and subsequently regained his sense of joy. Through praying with ideas from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, he was transformed–uplifted by a better understanding of joy as a quality of an all-present, all loving God.
He will also share other healings, thoughts on identity, prayer, and what Jesus taught about joy. And he’ll describe Mary Baker Eddy’s life. She founded Christian Science, wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and modeled a prayerful approach to life, through good happenings and bad, health and sickness, security and poverty, safety and homelessness–prevailing over all of these obstacles, and helping many others along the way.
When: May 2nd, 2022, Monday evening at 7:00 pm
Where: 1155 Overland Road, S.W., Roanoke, Va 24015 (free parking and free childcare)
For more information contact: 540.343.4889
Point of contact: Kathryn Fish (703.547.7782)
Email: [email protected]
Watch the replay of a Christian Science talk by Phillip Hockley, C.S.
Sponsored by:
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Roanoke, VA
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lynchburg, VA
You can now watch the replay video from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Mother Church in Boston, MA. It’s available for streaming in HD video and lower resolutions for those with slower internet connections. You can also download it to your computer in a variety of file sizes or listen to the audio-only version for your convenience.
Enjoy.
