1. What are some of the ways people make you feel inferior?

2. Who has exemplified for you how to treat people as equals?

3. What makes people want to establish pecking orders?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?