And the weekly Mass and Bible study have moved Derrick to say his daily prayers without prompting.
Many people are now reading it, with earnestness and dedication, often in reading groups modelled on Bible study groups.
Recent topics include Bible study and a cooking course for the youth ministry.
Hess Brewing Co. in San Diego and Monday Night Brewing in Atlanta both started as Bible study group projects.
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He established his first Bible study in 1981 at an Atlanta truck stop.
She teaches Bible study on Sundays and sings in her church band, while raising two teenage boys with her husband.
Jeff Heck, Joel Iverson and Jonathan Baker used to get together for a Friday morning Bible study through Atlanta's Westside Presbyterian Church.
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Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible study included in a job-training program in San Antonio, Texas, and the spiritual component in a San Francisco initiative to get welfare mothers off drugs.
It would be the same thing, we believe, to deny America's sons and daughters the benefits of an education that includes a study of the Bible.
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Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as a part of a secular (public school) program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.
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Ice cream led to a shared study of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible).
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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