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If You Want To Be Wise • Share a time when you ignored someone’s advice. Why did you?• Share a time when you followed someone’s advice and were glad that you did. What was the outcome?The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise…

Through Many Advisers • Who helps the president make decisions?• When you need advice, do you ask just one person or several? Why?For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.Proverbs 11:14The president…

The Ultimate Source Of Advice • How does God give advice?• Who is the wisest person you know?You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory.Psalm 73:24What if you knew someone who was unbelievably wise, with…

The Discerning Get Guidance • Do you consider yourself to be a wise person? Why or why not?• What are some of the steps you take when you make a decision?Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get…

Some Advice On Asking For Advice • What are some things people ask advice about?• When you need advice, who do you ask?Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the…

Don’t Fall For It! • How do you feel about money?• How do you think God feels about money?Now the overseer is to be above reproach … not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy…

So Should We • How do you feel when you do something generous?• How do you feel when someone shares with you?They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer … All the believers…

Never, Ever, Ever! • How does a person who loves money behave?• How does a content person behave?Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I…

Taking God At His Word • What does it mean to doubt something?• What are some things that you are absolutely sure about?But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and…

Why Do You Want What You Want? • Can you share a time when you asked God for something, but he did not give it to you?• What are some reasons why God might not give you what you ask for?When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask…

Why Pray? • What are some things that you have been praying about recently?• Why does God want you to pray?Be pleased to save me, LORD; come quickly, LORD, to help me.Psalm 40:13God loves to answer the prayers of his people. Many times…

Patience Vs. Pride • What does it mean to be patient?• What does it mean to be prideful?The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.Ecclesiastes 7:8Two girls wanted to join their church’s worship…

Forbearance Fruit • Why do you think the Bible refers to good qualities as “fruit”?• Can you think of a time when you were wronged, but you gave it to God instead of acting on it yourself?But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,…

Love Is Patient • Can you share a time when you were patient with someone?• Can you share a time when your parents were patient with you?Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.1 Corinthians…

God Speaks • How does God speak through the Bible?• If someone claims to speak for God, how do you decide whether to believe that person?In the past, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but…

Vainly They Seal The Dead • How do you think the disciples were feeling the day after Jesus’ death? Be specific.• If you had been one of Jesus’ disciples, what would it have taken for you to believe that he had risen from the dead?“Don’t…

The Darkest Day • How do you feel when you hear the crucifixion story?• Why did Jesus have to suffer so much?And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.Matthew 27:50After Jesus was sentenced to death,…

Take Me To Pilate • Why did the Jewish religious leaders hate Jesus so much?• Why did Pilate allow him to be crucified if he knew Jesus was innocent?When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he…

The Son Of God On Trial • Why couldn’t the Jewish religious leaders recognize the truth about Jesus?• Why can’t people today recognize the truth about Jesus?“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you…

In The Garden • Why were Jesus’ disciples so unreliable?• If you had been in the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus that night, what would you have done when the soldiers came to arrest him?He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father,…

The Plot To Kill Jesus • Why did the Jewish leaders need one of Jesus’ closest friends to betray him?• What do you think Judas Iscariot was like? Explain.Then one of the Twelve — the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests…

One Last Supper • What do you think the mood was like during the Last Supper?• Why were the disciples so confused about what Jesus told them?Then Jesus told them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is…

Into His House With Joy • Why is it important to go to church?• How would your life be different if you couldn’t go to church?I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”Psalm 122:1Sometimes it’s a struggle…

One Body—many Parts • What do you want to be when you grow up?• Can you think of ways that people in our church serve as Jesus’ hands? Jesus’ feet? Jesus’ ears?Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one…

Especially The Believers • Why do we call the people we go to church with “our church family”?• How can we show love for other Christians?Therefore, as we have the opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong…