He and his wife, Kay, began by holding Bible studies for people who weren't regular churchgoers.

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She teaches her boys English, history and Bible studies.

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Sure, the writer dutifully cited the number of Bible studies and commitments to Christ among football players at certain levels, as facilitated and tracked by groups such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

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As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.

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Bible studies, I was there.

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He added systematically to his store of languages, among them Hebrew, which he learnt at 70 to help his studies of the Bible.

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The pope also looks at scholarly studies of the Bible, some of which have indicated for decades that the traditionally accepted birth date for Jesus is wrong, Speciale said.

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