Friday Homework--Responses DUE MONDAY!

Here are the Instructions and Homework:

This week’s homework assignments are a set of reflection questions. These questions challenge you to look more deeply at your relationship with / understanding of God.

Please answer each set of questions on the assigned day. Your responses should be thoughtful (5 - 7 sentences minimum).There will be two questions each day.

If you have any trouble posting your answers on the blog, simply email me your responses!

QUESTIONS FOR FRIDAY:

How is God present in your life (people, events, circumstances, etc…)?

How is your life a blessing to others? (Explanation: Who appreciates who you are? How do you support others? What good do you for others?)

Wednesday Reflection Questions--Due Friday, November 18

Gentlemen,

Greetings from Rome! All is well here--lots of meetings!

I hope you are well. Thank you to those who have did their last blog entry. Please inform your fellow classmates who DID NOT do their homework that I am checking blogs and putting grades in.

Here are the Instructions and Homework for Wednesday:

This week’s homework assignments are a set of reflection questions. These questions challenge you to look more deeply at your relationship with / understanding of God. Please answer each set of questions on the assigned day. Your responses should be thoughtful (5 - 7 sentences minimum).

There will be two questions each day.

If you have any trouble posting your answers on the blog, simply email me your responses!

QUESTIONS FOR WEDNESDAY:

1) What is difficult for you about believing in or understanding God?

2) What would help you believe in / understand God better?

Monday Reflection Questions--DUE Wednesday, November 16

This week’s homework assignments are a set of reflection questions. These questions challenge you to look more deeply at your relationship with / understanding of God. Please answer each set of questions on the assigned day. Your responses should be thoughtful (5 - 7 sentences minimum).

There will be two questions each day. I have included an explanation with some other questions to help you understand the main question. You are simply answering the questions in bold.

If you have any trouble posting your answers on the blog, simply email me your responses!

MONDAY REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1) What is God demanding of you? Explanation: At this point in your life, what does God need you to do? How are you living up to what God expects of you?

2) What are you demanding of God? Explanation: What do you hope God does for you? How do you communicate this to God? How do you feel God is or is not responding?

October 11 Assignment--Due October 13

Read Exodus 5 - 14; answer the following questions in 5 - 6 sentences per question:

1) How is Moses' faith challenged throughout chapters 5 - 14? Include at least 2 examples.

2) Why do YOU think God used plagues to deal with Pharaoh?

3) What do you think about the Passover ritual in Chapter 12?

4) How do you view God after reading Exodus 5 - 14?

October 10 Assignment--Due October 11

Read
Exodus 1 - 4: Answer the questions below in 4 - 5 sentences.



1) What do you believe Exodus 1 has to say about power?



2) What does Exodus 2 say about Moses?



3) Having read Exodus 1 - 4, how would you describe God's role?



4) Moses receives a call from God to do what God needs him to do, how do you
believe God "calls" you today?

Wednesday, September 21 HOMEWORK

Answer the following questions in 5 - 7 sentences:

1) Page 91 explains the Creation story. What do you believe is God's greatest creation? Why?



2) Page 92 explains that the stories of creation teach us that God created everything and everyone out of love. What has been one of your greatest experiences of love?



3) Page 93 explains that human being are created with unique dignity. What makes you unique and how do you share that with others?



4) Page 94 - 97 focus on "sin and God's response?" What is one serious mistake you have made in your life? What did you learn? Did anything or anyone help you get through it?





5) A prayer for you to pray:

Accept, O Lord,
our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us.
We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation,
for the beauty of this world,
for the wonder of life,
and for the mystery of love.

We thank you for the blessing of family and friends,
and for the loving care
which surrounds us on every side.

We thank you for setting us at tasks
which demand our best efforts,
and for leading us to accomplishments
which satisfy and delight us.

We thank you also
for those disappointments and failures
that lead us to acknowledge
our dependence on you alone.

Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ;
for the truth of his Word
and the example of his life...

Grant us the gift of your Spirit,
that we may know him and make him known;
and through him, at all times and in all places,
may give thanks to you in all things. Amen.