How can un-forgiveness be leprous to our relationships? What does the Bible say about relationships and forgiveness? How can we learn from God's example about how powerful forgiveness can be? What impact does unforgiveness have on our lives? Should we constantly remember faults? Should there still be consequences even when there is forgiveness?

What does the Bible say about sex? Why is it we never talk or preach about it? Why did God give sex as a gift to humanity? What larger truth does it reveal about the nature of the relationship between humanity and divinity? Can we use this gift in any way we choose? What does the Bible say about relationships outside of the context established in Creation?

What does the Bible say about families? What wise words in the book of proverbs give counsel to families? Should parents discipline their children? Should you marry a person with anger issues? What virtues make a great wife? How can you make a home happy following God’s design for marriage?

In life we experience many changes. What does the Bible say about marriage, raising children, getting old, and preparing for death? How can we prepare for the major changes life has for us? How can knowing God impact the manner in which we go through these changes?

Life is often filled with choices? Whom to follow, whom to be friends with, whom to marry. The people closest to us often have great influence over our lives. How can we be sure we’ve made great choices in fiends, advisors, or counselors? How can we choose to do the right thing? Does God control our choices? What does it mean to have free choice or free will? What is a free moral agent?

This quarter we start a new series on family and relationships? Did God create man for relationships? Is there an order to life and to all things in Creation? What did Solomon mean when he talked about the different times and seasons for purposes under heaven? What patterns, changes, and cycles do we experience in life and also around us?

Why do some people push others away in order to avoid pain? Do relationships require risk? What does the Bible say about taking risks in building relationships? Is it healthy to shut people out of our lives or assume that they will hurt us even before they've ever done so?

As we explore the subject of feeling alone, does technology and social media play a role in the weakening of our most important relationships? Has the next generation become too desensitized, plugged in, and disconnected from the real world? How does this condition fulfill end time prophecies? How can God make the difference in restoring broken relationships?

The end of the story of Ruth and Boaz shows us how God often has a plan that we often can't see until we look back at how he has led us. Often God provides for us through the advice and wisdom of God fearing people He sends into our lives. Many feel alone because they don't have people close to them that can give them good counsel. What kind of people do you have in your life? Do you have friends that don't tell you what you want to hear? Can love look like correction?

How does God provide for us at times when we feel alone? Does God sometimes use people to bless us in times of need? Do we sometimes go through suffering without realizing and seeing how God is leaving us examples of His love to sustain us? How does the story of Ruth and Naomi help us to see how God is ever-present when we feel most alone?