{"id":1021,"date":"2016-08-15T23:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/questions\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T04:05:30","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Resources<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Integrity of Heart, Skillfulness of Hands, Charles H. Dyer &amp; Roy B. Zuck, editors, (Baker Books; Grand Rapids, MI, 1994), pp. 108ff<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cTwenty-four Questions the Disciples Asked Jesus,\u201d J. L. Meredith, Meredith\u2019s Big Book of Bible Lists, (Inspirational Press, NY; 1980) pp. 338-340<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cEighteen Questions the Religious Leaders Asked Jesus,\u201d J. L. Meredith, Meredith\u2019s Big Book of Bible Lists, (Inspirational Press, NY; 1980), pp. 340-342<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cForty-Six Questions Jesus Asked People,\u201d J. L. Meredith, Meredith\u2019s Big Book of Bible Lists, (Inspirational Press, NY; 1980), pp. 351-354<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Quotes<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Boston Globe, which carries a daily column designed to answer readers\u2019 queries, listed the top ten unanswerable questions. Here\u2019s one: \u201cI am nine years of age and have a cat that eats regularly and needs to go on a diet. He also eats mice when he is out. How many calories in a mouse?\u201d &#8211; Sunshine Magazine<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Where God places a period, let no man put a question mark.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Nobel Prize Winner<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn\u2019t so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired, \u201cDid you ask a good question today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>\u201cAsking good questions,\u201d Rabi said, \u201cmade me become a scientist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal'><b>Good   <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>1. If you didn\u2019t have to worry about making a living what would you most like to do for the rest of your life?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>2. What is your earliest memory?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>3. If you could live in any other time, past, present, future, what would it be and why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>4. What motivates you most to go to work each day: money or personal satisfaction? If money were not an issue, would you still keep your job?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>5. If you knew that tomorrow would be the last full day of your life, how would you spend the day?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>6. What is your most important goal in life right now? Will your life change in some way if that goal is reached? If so, how?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>7. If the people who know you best were asked, would they say you tend to be mostly predictable or unpredictable? Why? Which of these traits do you most value in a friend? Do you tend to follow a set routine or do you often do the same things differently?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>8. What social situations tend to make you most flustered and nervous? Why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>9. For $10,000 would you be willing to stand up spontaneously and sing The Star Spangled Banner at the top of your lungs in the middle of a church service?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>10. What are three things you would like to accomplish in the next year?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>11. If you were to move to a poor, primitive country, what three things would you most miss from your current life?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>12. What is the biggest lie you\u2019ve ever told? Why? What were the consequences, if any?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>13. What three things do you believe without any doubts?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>14. What is one of the books (other than the Bible) that has had the greatest influence on your life? Why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>15. If God would grant you any one request, what would it be?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>16. \u201cActivity that does not result in progress toward a goal is a waste of time.\u201d Do you agree? Is it ever OK to waste time?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>17. What would you say are your 5 greatest strengths? Weaknesses?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>18. Under what circumstances do you feel most lonely? Least lonely? Why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>19. What do you look forward to most about growing old? Least?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>20. What traits do you think are most important to instill in your children? Why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>21. If you could relive any part of your life, what would it be and why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>22. Have either of your parents either told you they were sorry or asked your forgiveness for something? How did it make you feel?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>23. What is the most difficult choice you\u2019ve had to make in your life up to this point? Why? What factors helped you make the choice? <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>24. Do you believe God has only one perfect mate for everyone?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>25. A football coach once said, \u201cWe learn almost nothing in victory, but we learn much in defeat.\u201d Do you agree or disagree. In your life, have you learned most from failures or successes?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>26. What would you most like people to remember you for after you die? What would you like written on your tombstone?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>27. What is the most dangerous thing you\u2019d like to try doing? What keeps you from doing it?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>28. What are the biggest questions you have about your relationship with God?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>29. What are the five things you are most thankful for in your life right now?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>30. Would you say that the focus of your life right now is more on the development of relationships or on the accomplishment of goals and objectives? What would you like to change about this focus, if anything?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>31. During WWII German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer participated in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Although the conspiracy failed and he was executed for making the effort, do you think Bonhoeffer was right in his attempts to kill Hitler. If you had been Bonhoeffer, would you have participated in this murder conspiracy? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>32. What was the greatest peer pressure you felt as a teen? What is the greatest peer pressure you feel as an adult? How are you handling it?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>33. As a child, when you got caught doing something wrong, which of the following were you most likely to do? Blame someone else, Deny that you did it, Run and hide, Take full responsibility and accept the consequences. What are you most likely to do now as an adult?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>34. Do you think people would be surprised about your thought life? How often would you be embarrassed if others knew exactly what was on your mind? Do you think your thought life is better or worse than most of the people in your circle of friends? Why?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:right; line-height:normal'>Source unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resources \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Integrity of Heart, Skillfulness of Hands, Charles H. Dyer &amp; Roy B. Zuck, editors, (Baker Books; Grand Rapids, MI, 1994), pp. 108ff \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cTwenty-four Questions the Disciples Asked Jesus,\u201d J. L. Meredith, Meredith\u2019s Big Book of Bible Lists, (Inspirational Press, NY; 1980) pp. 338-340 \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cEighteen Questions the Religious Leaders Asked Jesus,\u201d J. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}