Sentences with phrase «as for a study group»

This pithy book would make an excellent resource for a sermon series, as well as for a study group.

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Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the other exercise.

(Pillemer pulled together similar groups for studies on careers and regrets as well).

A study by JPMorgan calculated median annual health - care costs for today's 65 - year - olds at $ 4,660, but they project annual increases of 6.2 percent to 7 percent as that group ages, so that by 2036, when those people are 85, their median annual health - care spending will reach roughly $ 18,000.

Meanwhile, a group of 20 scientists studying the Otway Project in Australia since 2008 confirmed Dec. 14 that the CO2 there was behaving as it was expected to and the practice is indeed an effective way to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere for thousands and perhaps millions of years.

The results matched these expectations in that the No - Facebook group reported lower life satisfaction at the end of the study than those in the Facebook - as - normal condition (the average life satisfaction for the Facebook - as - normal group had increased during the study whereas the No - Facebook group's had not).

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sourceAs he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sourceas the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

Given the considerable number of background studies and the solid work of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization of Canadian innovations.

This report - prepared by a Study Group chaired by Denis Beau (Bank of France)- assesses changes in the supply of and demand for market - making services as well as their potential impact on fixed income markets.

«The panoply of public policies offering «voluntary» options for saving - such as RRSPs, TFSAs, group RPPs, and the most recent Pool Registration Pension Plans - have demonstrated their inadequacy to address the shortcomings in declining workplace pensions and a Canada Pension Plan with limited benefits,» the study concludes.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

Dr. Sands was elected in 2017 to a two - year term as a member of the executive council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and he is a member of the American Political Science Association (where he served as treasurer and a member of the executive of the Canadian Politics Group from 2010 until 2017) and the International Studies Association.

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

As Rebecca's faith grew, Shawn started to read the Bible for himself and ended up in tears, praying the «sinner's prayer» at a Bible study group in his local church.

I live in a blue state and we had kids that came in to high school before classes started every day to meet up as a group for bible study.

Thus university theology is characteristically in search of the very possibility of theology as such and tends, on the one hand, rarely to advance beyond prolegomena, programmatic probings, or an apologetic natural theology — unless it turns, on the other hand, with no little relief, to the very respectable study of the history of theology (as demonstrated, for instance, by the Bonhoeffer Society, the 19th Century Working Group of the AAR, the Tillich Working Group, or even the recently founded Karl Barth Society).

Getting the Most Out of Spiritual Gifts This section introduces the topic, explains the structure followed in each study and offers tips for those approaching the study on their own as well as those participating in a group.

I can heartily recommend it not only as a textbook for college and seminary students but also as material for advanced - level adult study groups in local churches.

I once heard a story of a Bible study group who decided to make a prayer list of all the people they «disliked» the most, and then pray for these people every week as part of the Bible study.

They looked largely the same as evangelicals on reading Scripture at least weekly (61 % in 2014 vs. 60 % in 2007) and participating in a prayer or Bible study group (44 % for both years).

Suggest Evolving in Monkey Town as a selection for your book club or small group study (Bonus points if your book club has 5,000 members)

As a student, Lin led what the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship calls a «family group,» a small group devoted to Bible study and praying for others.

Mental health professionals in the church or temple and community can be recruited as leaders or co-leaders (with the clergyman) of groups, and to help train lay leaders for all kinds of groups — e.g., supportive, growth, inspirational, study, and action groups.

Many types of groups exist, e.g., a depth Bible study group to stimulate the maturing of functional theologies; groups to aid preparation for normal crises such as retirement, middle age, marriage, childbirth (Caplan calls these «emotional innoculation groups»).

In 2004 he led a study group on reconciliation for the Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization, which met in Thailand (see the groups paper, «God's Mission as Reconciliation,» at www.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Unlike most therapy groups, growth groups often use «headlevel input» — the study of a selection or brief statement on adolescent psychology, for example, as a kickoff for a parents» session on youth.

During this Year of Faith, this book could be read in sections as part of a more meditative approach to understanding the Creed or as a resource for use as part of a study group.

As summer comes to a close and we return to the rhythm of the school year, I've been hearing from a lot of readers who are interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book cluAs summer comes to a close and we return to the rhythm of the school year, I've been hearing from a lot of readers who are interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book cluas a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book club.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

For example, on Friday mornings, I have coffee with a group of men, no bible study or agenda, just a group of believers who come together to share and encourage one another as we go through life together.

Many other groups (such as Minneapolis's Organizing Against Pornography, state chapters of Women Against Violence Against Women, and local rape centers) have slide shows available for study groups.

Adopting «in Jesus» name» as the necessary minimal condition for a counting as a «Christian congregation» for the purpose of a theological school's study does not, of course, require any particular answer to the quite different question whether God is truly known and worshiped by groups who do not worship in Jesus» name or whether God is redemptively present to them.

But that's not all... As part of preparing this book for publishing as a paperback, it has been edited, revised, and expanded, and now includes a study guide with each chapter, which makes it perfect for small group discussionAs part of preparing this book for publishing as a paperback, it has been edited, revised, and expanded, and now includes a study guide with each chapter, which makes it perfect for small group discussionas a paperback, it has been edited, revised, and expanded, and now includes a study guide with each chapter, which makes it perfect for small group discussions.

The group will become a study group as well as a discussion group, a prayer group, and a workshop for mission.

Also, please contact me if you are a small group leader interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as part of a book study... or if you write for an online / print publication and would like a copy for review....

Those who study religious demographics have seen the statistics pointing to Christian and Muslims — not Christians and secularists — as the two groups contesting most for numbers in the decades to come.

«While state policies and the actions of extremist groups often mask the high levels of tolerance in the minds of ordinary Arabs, the typical citizen in this region expresses a great deal of support for tolerant policies,» said Michael Hoffman, who studied religious minorities as part of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

This reviewer chose to use «Living the Mystery» as a Lenten exercise for a study group within the parish: it was much appreciated and stimulated wide ranging discussion, combining, as it does, an accessible orthodoxy with fresh insight.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

But the researchers, as well as industry trade groups including the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute disagree that this is the foregone conclusion for the study's findings.

Two authors of the study, Cynthia Kupper, CEO of the Gluten Intolerance Group and a registered dietitian diagnosed with celiac disease, and Laura Allred, Ph.D. and GIG's Regulatory and Standards Manager, join Jules on the show to discuss the impetus for the study, how the study was conducted, study results and what this means for celiacs and others sensitive to gluten as they search for safe gluten free products.

As leaders in the study of American food culture, The Hartman Group has been tracking how Americans shop for food since the 1990s.

Although these results sound promising, Mathew cautions that more studies on larger groups of people need to be done before he can recommend capsaicin as a definite treatment for cluster headaches.

So along with Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City, Arsenal are one of this group and the UEFA study suggests that our commercial success and spending power is bad for the game in general as it makes the likelihood of a club like Leicester City doing what they did last season less and less likely.