1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. What foundational worldview questions are answered in the book of Genesis?
3. What are the implications of being created by God?
4. Is there some degree to which we must assume God’s existence? How can we overcome this obstacle with atheists and agnostics?
5. What is the relevance of the Trinity at creation? What is the relevance of the Trinity for you in daily life?
6. How does it challenge our typical perspective to begin with God in focus rather than ourselves?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Does it matter if God created in six days or through millions of years? Why or why not?
3. What struggles do you have with comprehending a six-day creation?
4. What prompts are there to understand Genesis 1-3 literally? What is lost if we don’t?
5. What is “science”? What is its place in understanding the world’s origins?
6. Do you feel you can defend a literal, six-day creation? What case would you make?  Where would you struggle?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How does creation prompt you to “taste and see” God’s goodness (Psalm 34:8)?
3. What are some things that require careful design? How does this compare with God’s good design in creation?
4. Did God need to create for His fulfillment? How do the good gifts He gives in creation (James 1:17) move you to enjoyment and gratitude?
5. We were created to reflect and display God’s goodness. How can you live for this purpose?
6. Can you fathom a God who isn’t good? How does that contradict God?  How would that change everything?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. The size of the earth, sun, and universe are unfathomable! Consider the heavens, moon, and stars that God put in place – how great is our God??
3. Plants, animals, and humans have microscopic DNA that greatly influence its health, appearance, and abilities. Does this happen by accident?  Can anybody design like God?
4. Isaiah 40:12-31 and Job 38:4-41:34 humble us by how we cannot compare to God. What verses in these passages are particularly humbling or convicting?
5. Note the organization of God as He develops creation over six days, categorizing and separating according to His plan. What do you learn about God?
6. What amazes you most about creation and God’s development of the heavens and the earth? Who can you tell this week about God’s glory in creation and the gospel?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. What prompts you to wonder, Who am I, that you are mindful of me and care for me (Psalm 8:4)?
3. Why would God create us for relationships?
4. Why does God’s image in people matter? How does God appeal to this in His Word?
5. How did sin affect the image of God in humanity? How does Jesus impact this image in humanity (Colossians 1:15, 3:10, Romans 8:29)?
6. Does bearing God’s image depend on how we live? Why do you believe that?

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1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Though the Sabbath commandment (Exodus 20:11) is not repeated in the New Testament, what principles can we apply today?
3. What wrong ideas might we have about this “rest”?
4. What struggles do you have with pausing from work? How can you overcome these struggles?
5. What motivates a pause from working to rest?
6. How is worship of the Lord refreshing and rejuvenating?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Can you imagine a life lived in perfect peace and pleasure, without conflict or pain?
3. Though not the splendor of God’s garden, God still provides us with abundance! How do we guard against taking this for granted?
4. The life of man is God-breathed (Genesis 2:7) and the Scriptures are God-breathed (2 Timothy 3:16)! What does that reveal about our relationship to God’s Word?
5. God entrusted man with work (Genesis 2:15), and declared everything to be “very good” (Genesis 1:31). How can we be faithful stewards in the privilege of working?
6. God sets boundaries and gives commands for our good and blessing. How can we grow to trust and obey God, even when we don’t feel like it?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How was Adam incomplete without Eve? Does this mean nobody should stay single?
3. How are women honored in this passage rather than degraded?
4. How does this passage demonstrate the beauty of marriage and sexuality according to God’s design?
5. What gender roles are depicted here? Since this is before sin, pain, or conflict, how does this emphasize God’s design for men and women to complement each other?
6. How can husbands and wives function with the oneness God prescribes for them?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How do you see desire cause temptation and lead to sin in this passage (James 1:14-15)? How does this caution us about our desires?
3. How did Adam and Eve succumb to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16)? How can we beware of these worldly loves?
4. In what ways do we wrongly attempt to deal with our sin?
5. How did doubt creep into Adam and Eve’s hearts? Is it true that all sin roots in disbelief?
6. Adam and Eve were enjoying perfect fellowship with God before they exchanged it for a lie (Romans 1:25). How does that perspective convict us of our thinking that leads to sin?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How does personal sin cause a particular vulnerable feeling like that of “nakedness”?
3. In what ways do we tend to deflect our guilt or cover our shame?
4. In Christ, God releases our guilt and covers our shame. How does this motivate and empower our confession?
5. Why do we let fear drive us away from God rather to Him? How can we grow in a proper fear of the Lord (Proverbs 1:7)?
6. God’s questions penetrate the heart for conviction of sin. How can we gracefully and lovingly minister to others with questions?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. How can we grasp the full weight of how merciful God’s judgment is?
3. How do we relate to God as just Judge and merciful Priest (Hebrews 4:16)?
4. In the midst of conflict, how can we grieve, repent from, and guard against the impact of sin?
5. Though pain and death are inevitable in life, what reminders do we have of the hope accomplished in Christ (Genesis 3:15)?
6. How can you humbly reflect on God’s abundant mercy this week?

1. What impressions, applications, or questions do you have from this sermon or passage?
2. Sin broke our fellowship with God, but God provides the restoration. How does His mercy move you to worship?
3. We are deserving of death because of our sin, but we live and breathe by God’s blessing. How do you hold fast to this perspective?
4. Sometimes God’s protection and purpose can be painful in our lives. How can we trust His plan even when we don’t understand?
5. Within the first generation of humanity and the first three chapters of the Bible, all has fallen apart. “But God” (Ephesians 2:4) is mercifully working His plan!  Do you struggle with this hope at times?
6. Just as God clothed Adam and Eve, He clothes us with the righteousness of Christ (Isaiah 61:10)! How can we faithfully put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24)?