Maadi Women's Bible Study

6. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 2:4-24 The Garden IN Eden)

Questions

Read the passage out loud and try and draw out 5 new observations.

With this new understanding of Eden how does this affect your understanding of “Heaven?”

5. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 2:1-3 Keeping God's Rhythm)

Questions

1. Discuss the idea of “time” and your relationship with it. Consider ways that you demonstrate that time is your possession. 

2. Where has your management or concept of time hurt your relationship with other people? With God?

4. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 1:26-28 Invitation to Partner with God)

Questions on the Image of God

In Psalm 8, the poet is reflecting on humanity’s identity and calling to rule creation with God. He ponders how weak and “low” humans are compared to the stars and the heavenly beings, yet God is pleased to partner and share his glory with them.

Question 1:

Read verses 4-5 again and reflect on what stands out to you the most.

Question 2:

In this poem, humans are both weak and tiny, but also glorious and capable. Do you see yourself this way? What would change if you did?

Question 3:

What do you think it says about God that he invites humans to rule with him?

3. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 1:14- 31 Inhabiting the Space)

c. Questions

1. How does seeing the design and intentionality of the writer telling this story impact your understanding of God, or the Scriptures?
2. Can you see in your thinking where you are guilty of unconscious chronological snobbery?
3. Does anything we have discussed today or in past feel conflicting or threatening to your way of previous understanding? 

2. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 1:1-13 Space and Place)

The liturgy that we opened with

In the midst of whatever follows, O Lord, let me meet your mercies anew, and anew, and anew.

In the midst of my dismay, fix my eyes again and again upon your eternal promises.

How this ends—that is up to you.

If the next news is favorable, I will praise you for the ongoing gift of life. If tomorrow’s tidings are worse, still will I proclaim your goodness, my heart anchored ever more firmly in the eternal joys you have set before me.

And when, whether days or decades from now, you finally bid me rise and follow you across the last valley, I will rejoice

in your faithfulness even there.

Especially there—

praying Thy will be done, and trusting by faith that it will be done. That it is being done. Even now.

Even in this disquiet.

I am utterly yours, O Christ.

In the midst of this uncertainty,

I abandon myself again to you, the author and the object of all my truest hopes.

Amen

A LITURGY FOR

Seasons of Uncertainty

COPYRIGHT © 2020 DOUGLAS MCKELVEY

Discussion Questions

1. What is something that struck you as new or useful in your understanding of creation and God’s work?

2.   How have you or do you see God working disorder into order in 

      your life?

3.   How can we pray for you this week? 

1. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 1-11 Overview)

Genesis 1-11 contains many, if not most, of the major themes that flourish through out the rest of Scripture.

Today we look at Gen 1:1

10. Book of Daniel in the Days of Covid (ch 9 Part two0

9. Book of Daniel in the Days of Covid (ch.9)

HAVING TROUBLE? If you cannot play the audio, you can download it from our Google Drive here:

Daniel 9 Podcast

 

Worship:

Sovereign Over Us

Ancient of Days

Questions

1. How can looking in the Scriptures broaden our prayer lives

2. Are there ways Daniel seems to understand God that we wish we could share? What are they, and why would we want to share them?

3. What do you think is the value of corporate repentance?

4. How can we follow Daniel’s example and pray corporate prayers of repentance?

    

8. Book of Daniel in the Days of Covid (ch.8)

Questions

1. With all that is going on in the world today, we can have a tendency to think things are bad for the church and for God's truth. How does this chapter challenge that idea?

2. Daniel's closing statement "Then I rose and went about the king's business," tells us that Daniel was alarmed but continued to do what God was calling him to do. How does this speak to you in your life? What ways are you having to press onward in the midst of difficult circumstances?

7. Book of Daniel in the Days of Covid (ch.6 Creating Your Spiritual Rhythm)

QUESTIONS:

1. Perhaps the greatest compliment that you could receive would be for someone to look at you and say to themselves, “The only way I can explain her is by saying the Spirit of the Living God must live inside her.” Who do you know (or knew) that has developed such a personal connection with God that it seems to shine through in everything they do and say?
2. Do you have elements of a spiritual rhythm in place in your life? How have you seen these practices shape you? 
3. Are your ways of connecting with God (your trellis) more of a gift or duty right now? Explain. If more duty how can you adjust it so it is more of a gift, that you look forward to rather than a burden you must bear?
4. Among our usual prayer requests, let’s pray for God’s leading as we develop a “trellis,” a rhythm of practices such as the Sabbath, exercise, prayer, Bible reading, small group community, etc.