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How to live and die well OUTLINE Fear your Creator (v. 1:7) Forge your Community (v. 1:8) QUESTIONS What stuck out to you from Pastor Dave’s message? Relationships are delightful and difficult. Many spend their life seeking to find the right relationship rather than forging the right relationships through doing the hard work of relationship building. Where have you found …

How to ruin your life in 3 easy steps OUTLINE Ignore God (v. 12:15 ;14:12; 21:2) Ignore Heart (v. 4:23) Ignore Others (v. 18:1-2)   QUESTIONS If we treat God like a consultant rather than our creator it is easy to ignore Him. Where do you tend to ignore God and function in your own wisdom? Where have you become …

The Heart of the Matter OUTLINE The heart’s dilemma The heart’s direction QUESTIONS What stuck out to you from Pastor Matt’s message today? What does the phrase “the language of the heart” bring to mind for you? How have you grown in your understanding of what the heart is? (Prov. 4:23) In the culture of “think + do” “study + …

Wisdom, Reality, and Jesus OUTLINE The Persistence of reality (v. 8:36) The Problem with reality (v. 23:17) The Plan for reality (v. 5:21) QUESTIONS Reality is persistent, God has so ordered this world that He doesn’t need to strike us down, we strike ourselves down with the consequences of our own actions. Where do you struggle to allow people to …

Breaking up with Folly OUTLINE Change is hard (v. 26:11) Christ will help (v. 13:12) QUESTIONS What stuck out to you from Pastor Dave’s message? Have you ever tried to change something in your life only to fail and go back to the way things were (Proverbs 26:11)? What went wrong, why did you fail? The Bible gives us the best …

Friendship with Folly OUTLINE Wisdom’s Call (v. 8:1-4) Wisdom’s Care (v. 8:5-11) QUESTIONS What stuck out to you most from the sermon and why? Why does the fool love to examine other’s lives instead of their own? Where do you find yourself shining the spotlight on others instead of yourself? What would wisdom call out to you?  (1 Corinthians 11:28-31; …

The Way of Wisdom OUTLINE Wisdom as a Path (v. 3:1-12) Wisdom as a Process (v. 3:1-12)   QUESTIONS Solomon doesn’t refer to wisdom as some mystical, magical thing but as a path we are on (3:6). Wisdom is gained through a lifetime of little decisions that make up our character and form us into the kind of people who …

Confessions of a Recovering Fool OUTLINE Problems with Proverbs (v. 3:13) Point of Proverbs (v. 3:14-22)   QUESTIONS Proverbs 3:13 encourages us to get wisdom. In what area of your life are you most lacking wisdom? What areas of your life aren’t going well and need work? What does the Bible tell us to do if we lack wisdom (James …