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Tag Archives: Story of God
When in your life have you seen God turn something that seemed horrible into something amazing?
April 3, 2008 – 12:46pm
What do we learn from those types of situations?
What did God accomplish through those experiences?
April 3, 2008 – 12:40pm
How can you relate to Joseph’s life and experiences?
What do we learn about Joseph from the story?
April 3, 2008 – 12:39pm
What were some of the key events in Joseph’s life? Do you notice a pattern?
Who can you most relate to in this story?
April 3, 2008 – 11:52am
Have you ever acted like Esau? Jacob? How were you treated?
Why would God pass on his blessing to Jacob?!
April 3, 2008 – 11:49am
Does Jacob deserve to receive this blessing?
What blessing is God passing on through Abraham, Isaac and now Jacob?
April 3, 2008 – 11:48am
Why do you think Jacob desired his father’s blessing? What were his motives?
What is Jacob’s concern with his mother’s plan to decieve Isaac?
April 3, 2008 – 11:47am
What is the motivation behind Jacob’s response to Rebekkah’s plan?
Why do you think Esau gave up his inheritance so easily?
April 3, 2008 – 11:10am
Have you ever made an impulse decision that you really regretted later?
What did God tell Rebekah about the children in her womb?
April 3, 2008 – 11:09am
How might have this affected her actions?
What is God asking you to put on the alter before him today?
April 3, 2008 – 11:00am
What in your life are you attempting to control? Who should be in control?
Why would God test Abraham’s faith?
April 3, 2008 – 10:55am
Do you think Abraham was tempted to try and come up with his own plan again?
Where have we seen sacrifice before in the story?
April 3, 2008 – 10:51am
Where else in the story so far have you seen something sacrificed and WHY?
What does this story show us about Abraham?
April 3, 2008 – 10:40am
What are we seeing to be true of Abraham now, and where do you see it in the story? What is his relationship like with God? With Isaac?
Do you deserve to be declared righteous?
April 3, 2008 – 10:35am
What do we attempt to do at times to appear “righteous”? What do these attempts at righteousness produce in us?
God declared Abraham “righteous”. What do you think it means to be righteous?
April 3, 2008 – 10:30am
Was Abraham full of “rightness”? Who declares Abraham righteous? Why? Did he deserve it?
How does God seem to be changing how he’ll interact with humans?
April 3, 2008 – 10:28am
What do you see changing here that is significant?
What do we learn about Abraham and Sarah?
April 3, 2008 – 10:19am
What is anything you learned about this couple in the story?
Why do you think God stopped the people from building a monument to themselves?
April 3, 2008 – 10:16am
What are we trusting in to save us from our rebellion against God and our sinful hearts?
April 3, 2008 – 10:13am
Often, what are we hoping in to make us right before God and others? How is that working out…?
What did God say to Noah about the blood from the sacrifices?
April 3, 2008 – 10:10am
Why is what God said important? Try and answer from the stories so far…not leaping ahead.
What do we learn about Noah in this story?
April 3, 2008 – 10:08am
How is it that he and his family are the only ones spared in the flood?!?
Before the flood came, what do you think people believed about God and themselves?
April 3, 2008 – 9:58am
Why did God flood the earth and destroy everything?
April 3, 2008 – 9:53am
What have we learned about God in previous stories that help us answer this question?
What would it take to be able to rightly manage the knowledge of good and evil in our life?
April 3, 2008 – 9:48am
Why didn’t God just ignore what Cain had done?
April 3, 2008 – 9:44am
What punishment did Cain deserve?
What was God’s reaction to the murder?
April 3, 2008 – 9:43am
Do God’s actions show us anything about how he felt about murder? About Cain?
What did God say to Cain after he rejected his offering?
April 3, 2008 – 9:32am
What do you think God was trying to get at with Cain?
Were humans originally created to judge good and evil?
April 3, 2008 – 9:28am
Who should be the judge over good and evil?
How do you choose between right and wrong?
April 3, 2008 – 9:26am
When you look at the world today, how are humans doing at managing good and evil / right and wrong?
What do we learn about God in this story?
April 3, 2008 – 9:23am
What do we learn about God and where in the story did you see it?
Why does God requires consequences for sin and rebellion?
April 3, 2008 – 9:21am
Why didn’t God just give Adam and Eve a “pass” on this one?
Why do you think God did not just destroy them?
April 3, 2008 – 9:16am
Were humans originally created to live for ever?
How were their relationships affected by their disobedience?
April 3, 2008 – 9:14am
How did their actions change the relationship that they enjoyed with God? With each other?
Why was it a bad idea for them to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
April 3, 2008 – 9:12am
What do we know about this snake? What did he try to do? How?
April 3, 2008 – 9:09am
Did you hear anything that reminded you of previous stories?
When we rebel against authority, who/what is our idol?
April 3, 2008 – 9:00am
Is who/what we submit to, who/what we truly worship?
What did God say about his creation?
April 3, 2008 – 8:59am
God declares something about his creation, the world, humans…what does that say about us?
What do you think is significant about the two trees in the center of the garden?
April 3, 2008 – 8:57am
What do these two trees represent?
What kind of relationship did Adam and Eve have with each other?
April 3, 2008 – 8:56am
Why do you think that Adam and Eve were not ashamed of being naked?
Why do you think God cast Lucifer and the fallen angels out of heaven?
April 3, 2008 – 8:40am
From the story, why do you think God didn’t allow Lucifer and the rebellious angels to remain in his presence? Why didn’t God just destroy them?
What was God’s relationship like with his creation?
April 3, 2008 – 8:16am
How would you describe God’s relationship with his creation in this story?
What did God create in this story?
April 3, 2008 – 8:09am
What do you see created by God in just this story? Not just “stuff”, but what came into being…?