Key Concepts:  vicarious atonement, teaching our children

Possible questions:

1. Explain the symbolism behind:  the perfect lamb, the blood of the lamb, not using yeast in the bread.
2. Why is it so important to teach our children the things our God has done?
3. Contrast what the worship must have been like in the homes of the Israelites that night with what was taking place in the homes of the Egyptians.

Key Concepts:  Judgment, Passover, Lamb of God

Questions to Consider:

1. How would you explain to someone God's harsh judgment on the unbelieving Egyptians?
2. What parallels can you draw between the Passover and what Christ has done for us?

Key Concepts:  Spiritual darkness; Spiritual light

Questions to Consider:

1. How does the writer Moses continue to impress on us that these plagues were not natural phenomena?
2. What evidence of spiritual darkness do you see in the world today
3. What is the light God has given us?

Key Concepts:  Ten Plagues; God's Judgment; God's Deliverance

Questions to Consider:

1. What did the Egyptians worship?  How does this help us understand the nature of the plagues?
2. What progression do we see in the plagues?
3. Why is a refusal to listen to God's Word such a dangerous thing?
4. When we turn to God, what kind of a God do we find?

Key Concepts:  Disappointments, Hardships, Covenant, Faithfulness

Questions to Consider:

1. Moses complained that God wasn't rescuing the Israelites.  How did God respond?
2. Can you think of a passage which says God does not remember our sins?  What does God remember?
3. What is the meaning of the word "redeem"?
4. What pattern do we see in each of the plagues?

Key Concepts:  Hardship, Fatherhood of God
Questions to Consider:

1. What was Moses to call the Israelites when he went to Pharaoh?
2. What does it mean that God is your Father?
3. Our first reaction, our sinful reaction, in the face of adversity is often to complain.  Where does God want us to turn in adversity?

Key Concepts: Time, Stewardship
Questions to Consider:  

1. What plan did the rich fool come up with?
2. What foiled his plan?
3. What plan does God have for us? (Hint:  He announced it throughout the Old Testament beginning in Genesis 3:15.)
4. How does knowing God's plans for you impact your planning today?

Key Concepts: Adversity, Hope, Faith
Questions to Consider:

1. What's the difference between treating this world as a guest room or as your permanent hom?
2. Why did Naomi think Ruth should go back to Moab?
3. What was Ruth's motivation for choosing to live as a foreigner in Israel despite the difficulty?
4. How does an eternal perspective help us to show love and kindness toward one another as Ruth did for Naomi?

Key Concepts:  Stewardship, Time, Priorities
Questions to Consider:  

1. Of all the resources God gives us to manage, why, in some ways, is time the most precious?
2.  What was foremost on Martha's mind when Jesus visited?  What was foremost on Mary's?
3.  Why was Mary's the better choice?

Key Concepts:  Service, God's presence

Questions to Consider:

1. Why didn't Moses want to go back to Egypt?
2. How did God respond to Moses' excuses?
3. When God calls us to service, we need to consider the gifts God has given us.  But what else do we need to consider?