Proverbs: Getting Good Advice (Smarter Living)

 

1. Who are your three best sources of advice?

 

 

 

2. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

 

 

 

3. What is the worst piece of advice you’ve ever received?

 

 

 

4. How does it make you feel when someone asks for your advice?

 

 

 




Proverbs: A Father’s Inheritance (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are the best things you got from your dad?

 

 

 

2. What men in your life have served as father figures for you and what did they give you?

 

 

 

3. What kind of an inheritance do you want to leave?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Correction (Smarter Living)

 

1. What negative feelings do you have when you think about being corrected?

 

 

 

2. What is the most loving correction you’ve ever received?

 

 

 

3. What is the worst correction that has ever been directed toward you?

 

 

 

4. What correction should you perhaps be offering more?

 

 

 

5. What correction should you perhaps be offering less?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Guidance For Life (Smarter Living)

 

1. Share with your group a time when you really needed to trust in the Lord.

 

 

 

2. Is it easy or difficult for you to trust in the Lord?

 

 

 

3. Share with your group a time in your life when not leaning on your own understanding was really difficult.

 

 

 

4. Do you look at God’s guidance as a ongoing process?

 

 

 

5. If someone is struggling with their faith and trust in God, what small steps can they take to help them overcome those obstacles and grow in their faith and trust?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Things The Lord Hates (Smarter Living)

 

1. Did you get surprised by the things on the Lord’s list? What surprised you the most?

 

 

 

2. What are some things you hate?

 

 

 

3.  Why is it important to protect our heart?

 

 

 

4. Share with the group the last time you were tempted to lie, but you told the truth. How did you feel afterwards?

 

 

 

5. How often are you tempted to compromise your character? What happens when you give in to that temptation?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Business Basics (Smarter Living)

 

1. Who is the person in your life who has been most trustworthy, not counting your spouse?

 

 

 

2. What have you worked the hardest at in life?

 

 

 

3.  In what time of your life do you wish you had worked harder?

 

 

 

4. Why do you think fairness is such a big deal?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Gossip (Smarter Living)

 

1. How would you define gossip?

 

 

 

2. Why do you think people gossip?

 

 

 

3.  What are the most common excuses people use for gossiping?

 

 

 

4. How would Christianity change if there was no more gossip?

 

 

 




Proverbs 31: Mother (Smarter Living)

 

1. What good qualities do you think of when you think of your mother?

 

 

 

2. What are the most important qualities do you think a mother should have?

 

 

 

3.  What women other than your mother have had a motherly influence in your life?

 

 

 

4. Why do you think Solomon had such an ability to describe a godly woman, while seemingly having such an inability to actually find one to marry?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Greed Is Not Good (Smarter Living)

 

1. What makes greed such a powerful force in our lives?

 

 

 

2. Is there any aspect of greed that is good?

 

 

 

3.  What are some ways in which we can combat the hold of greed on our lives?

 

 

 

4. Have you had any experiences in your life where greed led you down a dark path?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Wealth (Smarter Living)

 

1. What do you think contributes to our insatiable desire for more?

 

 

 

2. How could you adjust your lifestyle if you suddenly lost 25% of your income?

 

 

 

3. What has been the happiest time in your life? Did you have more or less than you have now?

 

 

 

4. Who do you know who seems truly content with what they have?

 

 

 

5. Who is the most giving person you know?