Word: prays
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...also from practicing their faith at all. In a national survey recently released by Barna Group, a polling firm that tracks religious trends, only 33% of kids 13 to 18 responded that they attend a youth-group event regularly--a 3% drop since 1998. And while nearly 75% pray each week, that number has declined...
...WEEKLY ACTIVITIES 1995-98 2002-06 Pray to God 81% 72% Attend worship service at church 53% 48% Sunday school 37% 35% Attend a youth group 36% 33% Bible reading...
...time-pressed executives may be able to steal only a day or two away from their jobs and then pray that whatever they carry back from a program will make a difference in the office. So the question becomes, Is there long-term value in one-, two- or even five-day courses that may be nothing more than drive-bys or Band-Aids...
...much instruction by tense parents. The benefit of this is style is that you don't actively teach your kids to lie. My friend, the one with the prayer DVD, follows this approach, and the result is an honest child who recently told his teacher, "my parents don't pray." Nothing happened, but much could have. My friend thinks it isn't right to engage in reverse-inculcation at home. "Then how are we any different from them?" she asks. "He should have the right to choose himself the values he wants." I agree: it's like sending your...
...went to IHOP, JCRs, made pancakes and eggs—it was really fun, and then we would pray the dawn prayer together,” she said...