Connection Between Beauty and God’s Promises:
Question: How does the story of God showing Abraham the stars relate to the concept of beauty connecting us to God’s promises?
Genesis 15:5 – “He took him outside and said, ‘Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘So shall your offspring be.'”
Beauty in Creation:
Question: In what ways does the beauty of creation around us point to the glory and character of God?
Psalm 19:1 – “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Longing for Beauty:
Question: How does our innate longing for beauty reflect our deeper longing for God and His kingdom?
Psalm 27:4 – “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
Beauty’s Role in Faith:
Question: How can beauty, as seen in nature or art, aid in strengthening or awakening faith in God?
Scripture: [Open for discussion; consider exploring how nature and art often lead to moments of spiritual reflection and awakening.]
Beauty and Worship:
Question: Discuss how acts of beauty, like the woman anointing Jesus with perfume, can be forms of worship and devotion.
Matthew 26:6-13 – The account of the woman anointing Jesus with expensive perfume, demonstrating an act of beauty and worship.
Eternal Beauty:
Question: What does it mean for Christians to be ‘adorned in beauty’ in eternity, as mentioned in Revelation 21?
Revelation 21:2 – “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.”
Video Notes of my own:
What things are beautiful in your life?
A powerful force to know God
Gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
The beauty of God’s Creation – teaches us
What does beauty do? Attracts,
For the sake of encountering beauty
Truth without Beauty?
Beauty specifics -finding the beauty
Arouses belief in God
God uses beauty to woo and warm hearts
She has done a beautiful thing to me
Gerald Faulkner 