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SUMMARY:Free Public Talk - “Finding where God is seen and felt”
DESCRIPTION:Finding where God is seen and felt – what’s church got to do with it?\nA FREE Inspirational Talk\nby Emma Farkas– on how the ideas of the Bible are available for anyone to understand and experience through Christian Science\n\n\n\n\n“A new kind of thinking is needed to recognize that God’s goodness and love are actually here and tangible to all humanity everywhere. The idea of ‘church’ can shift from being a physical building\, a set time on a particular day\, or an assembly of perfect humans (does that even exist??)\, to that of being what God builds in our lives every moment through us responding to Christ Jesus’ message of God’s all-powerful love.” ~ Ms. Farkas \nThe talk is free\, open to the community\, and hosted by the First Church of Christ\, Scientist in Berwyn.\n\nSharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science\, Ms. Farkas will\nexplain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific\, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for\nthemselves\, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures\, written by the founder\nof the Christian Science movement\, Mary Baker Eddy. \n\nWhat do God and Church mean to you?\nFeeling pure goodness and love every day!\nMs. Farkas will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy\, who came to understand\, confirm\, and teach what she\nfelt was original Christian healing. Mrs. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand\, “He that\nbelieves on me\, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do\, because I go unto my\nFather” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible). \nFor over 150 years\, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity\nand continue to do so today\, experiencing healings of physical ills and personal difficulties. \n\n\n\nAbout Emma Farkas\n\n \n\nThe most important influences in Emma’s life were her mother\, who taught her to pray when confronted with difficulties\, and her Christian Science Sunday School. In her teens\, when a teacher asked her to speak to a social studies class about her religion\, she found the joy that comes from sharing what she understood and had experienced of Mary Baker Eddy’s discovery. She was asked back each year and was always moved by the way students who were skeptical about the subject became interested after hearing her accounts of spiritual healing–her healings of a severed thumb\, tonsilitis\, swimmer’s ear\, bullying\, and other difficulties. \nHowever\, during college and graduate school she drifted away from church. Her degrees were in Fine Arts and after school she worked for galleries and museums in New York City. Her interest in finding spiritual answers to life’s challenges was rekindled\, and she explored a variety of spiritual disciplines in search of answers. This hands-on study of comparative religion helped her understand the universality of the search for spiritual truth but left her with unanswered questions. \nShe and her husband moved to Taos\, New Mexico\, where she enjoyed a career in music performance and started a family. After some years of poor health\, a sudden spiritual insight led her back to Christian Science and an instantaneous healing of multiple chronic illnesses. This inspired a deeper study of Eddy’s writings which then led to returning to church\, taking Christian Science class instruction (a two-week intensive course of study) and shortly after\, becoming a full-time Christian Science practitioner.  She says there is nothing more satisfying than seeing divine Truth and Love transform lives and bring healing. She feels deeply blessed to practice and teach Christian Science\, contribute to the Christian Science periodicals\, serve her branch church\, and serve as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. \n\n 
URL:https://www.csgreaterphiladelphia.org/event/free-public-talk-finding-where-god-is-seen-and-felt/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Berwyn\, PA\, 81 Cassatt Ave.\, Berwyn\, Berwyn\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Free Public Talk
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SUMMARY:Free Public Talk: Be Set Free
DESCRIPTION:Be Set Free!\nA FREE Inspirational Talkby Nicole Virgil— on gaining a sense of spiritual freedom in your life\nCircumstances often present what appear to be significant obstacles to living freely\, something that everyone wants to do.  Whatever it is that seems to stand between us and the full range of motion that we would like to have in our lives – it’s not so much the presenting impediment that is the problem – it’s not knowing how or where to access our God-given liberty. \nJoin us for a wonderful hour with International Speaker\, Nicole Virgil.  She will take us through a way of transformation of thought — and how that can change our lives. \nIn this talk\, Nicole will examine liberty from a Biblical perspective; and help the audience see how real people today find their freedom from all kinds of physical\, emotional and circumstantial restrictions that seem clearly beyond their control so that they may Be Set Free. \nMs. Virgil says\, \n\nTo live a life of liberty\, we have to find the nature and substance of liberty\, which is spiritual\, purposeful\, unburdened\, and given to all. To do that you have to know where to look\, to the source of liberty – God\, good itself\, all-inclusive.\n\n  \n \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				About Nicole Virgil\nNicole’s father was a free-lance church organist\, and her parents attended services at many different Christian churches in New England. Her mom had been on a years-long search to find out how to practice Christian healing just as Jesus did\, and when she started attending Christian Science church services\, she found what she was looking for.\nAs a result\, Nicole was raised in Christian Science\, and developed a deep desire for an intimate relationship with God.\nNicole studied Christian Science with her mom and music with her dad\, and found that each discipline complemented the other:   Christian Science healed performance anxiety\, while learning music honed the skills she needed for spiritual practice — skills such as intuition\, listening\, patience and diligence. \nThroughout her life\, Christian Science and music have always overlapped: after studying opera at music school\, she took her one-woman opera review program (That Can’t Be Opera!) on the road\, educating audiences about opera by singing Mozart\, Puccini\, and Menotti. Christian Science guided her through this entrepreneurial endeavor\, just as it led her to start soloing in churches as a teenager (which is something she still loves to do!) \nNicole eventually married\, started a family with her husband\, and entered the public practice of Christian Science.Today Nicole enjoys raising children\, gardening\, soloing in church\, and witnessing the healing effect of Christian Science.
URL:https://www.csgreaterphiladelphia.org/event/free-public-talk-be-set-free/
LOCATION:First Church of Christ\, Scientist\, Berwyn\, PA\, 81 Cassatt Ave.\, Berwyn\, Berwyn\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Featured,Free Public Talk
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