Sentences with phrase «book study groups»

Use it in book study groups or to deepen your own understanding of this text.

Designed to support both school improvement efforts and professional development, each chapter includes discussion questions that make this resource perfect for staff meetings or book study groups.

Big Book Study Group, 1997], pp. 138 - 39).

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 58, 68 - 71; and, from several sources, the evidence about «surrender» strongly indicates it involved the following:

For example, a group of students excelling in literacy might be formed into a book study group for independent reading and discussion.

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming Oakland Book Study Group, led by Zaretta Hammond, on Thursday, September 22 at 4:30 pm.

-- Zaretta Hammond... Continue reading Dig Deep with the Oakland Book Study Group on September 22 →

L'aurelei participated in last year's Oakland Book Study Group and attended the Black Teacher Leadership and Sustainability Institute this summer.

BTP fellows will commit to: • engaging in leadership & inquiry for three years • classroom observation • attending the Black Teacher Leadership & Sustainability Institute in Oakland (June 8 to 10, 2018) • participation in a BTP learning track series (ie, Inquiry Group or Book Study Group) • four to five meetings a semester (on Sundays)

The Oakland Book Study Group will deepen your practice and enrich your teaching toolkit in fellowship with Black teachers like yourself.

AAP and Book Study Group reports show that mass - market paperbacks are down 13.8 % during same period.

Not exact matches

In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the two.

In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $ 50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $ 100 or less), and from that group he's chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

I also endorse the most immediately doable reform effort of all, which is for adults to themselves form and promote book - groups dedicated to the study of such texts.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

I do this by writing books and blog posts, leading a discipleship group which includes online courses, and publishing a Bible study podcast.

The book focused on young people's perceptions of Christianity, based on studies conducted by The Barna Group.

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)

Members of this group write study books for the student movement and speak about secular, worldly and non-religious theology.

A minister who wishes to use this approach should study John E. Bell's monograph, «Family Group Therapy» (Public Health Monograph # 64, U.S. Government Printing 0ffice, Washington 25, D.C. sec also Virginia Satir, Conjoint Family Therapy (Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1964).

People often ask me for book recommendations suitable for personal devotion or group study — you know, something challenging but not too controversial, something that stretches the heart and mind but isn't too scholarly.

Later I was told that Vaclav Havel held a study group on this book, discussing it part by part in a mountain hideaway in the Czech territories.

Finally, she boldly announced, «You know, this group is great, but what would make it even more exciting would be to have a Holy Book study.»

Do I tell them to to read the Bible every day, and start listening to sermons online, and reading Christian books, and find a group to study the Bible with?

The scenario is usually about a group of well - intentioned women studying a popular book that is marketed for women's ministry groups, and it is full of bad doctrine.

Here's the printable PDF discussion guide to aid book clubs and group studies that are reading Evolving in Monkey Town.

A free discussion guide is available in the book study kit if you're interested in using it for a class or small group.

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

When I came to Alcoholics Anonymous, I attended thousands of meetings and participated in hundreds of Big Book studies, Step Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and studies, Step Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and Groups.

Study - growth groups with a dual focus on intellectual and interpersonal growth (often centering on a book).

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.

So it's been such a joy to hear from readers who have used A Year of Biblical Womanhood for their book clubs or group studies.

Yet another Bible study group studying the book of James: not so much.

Thereâ $ ™ s lots of material out there that suggests mixing up the groups every year to keep them fresh and focused on a study book or whatever.

You can lead a small group at your church, or gather some dudes at Starbucks every Thursday morning and study the book of Daniel together.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

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 club.

Working in groups in western Europe, North America, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, the study team produced and encouraged many papers and books on the problem of the local church.7 Naming as its focus the Missionary Structure of the Congregation, the study proposed that radically different forms of Christian assembly and witness be fostered within the secular context.

The book's format, excerpts from a modern translation divided into short sections by commentary, would lend itself well to group study.

Some church groups, such as the Lutheran World Federation, objected to the Study's skewed focus, 10 and the editor of one of the project books acknowledged that:

This may happen through a study group, through a mission, through the ordinary ministry of the Church, through the reading of a book, or through personal conversation.

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 discussions.

We're studying the book of Job in our bible group.

Whether you want to buy one book for yourself, or multiple books for your church study group, you can get the book on Amazon.

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....

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.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.