In so many cultures, people have given arbatrary value to people based on their gender, family, race or age. That's super clear to see in the Hebrew inheritance system and culture. Firstborn men were given all the inheritance, social benefit, and status- so why does God so often pick leaders who were NOT firstborn? How can we learn from the people God puts in front of us as leaders? And how can we tell if a leader is actually "annointed" or if we are simply following someone because we like what they look like or say?
Our society is one that is increasingly more individualistic and isolated, and lonliness is rampant in our society. How are we as believers supposed...
Reliability (or Faithfulness, depending on what term you want to use) is easily lost and difficult to gain. How can we recover lost reliability?
It's hard for us to give up our plans. What does it mean to have healthy, God-guided planning?