Climbing the Stairway to Heaven

Pastor Mark reflects on Genesis 27 and 28 with wit, honesty, and unexpected insight. What if the biblical story of Jacob and Esau is not just a serious tale of deception—but also a divine comedy meant to catch us off guard? Dive into this full sermon to explore how God’s blessings are already ours, even when we try to chase them by other means.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Climbing the Stairway to Heaven

This week’s guide offers thoughtful questions to help you explore the unexpected humor, spiritual insight, and human dynamics in Jacob’s story. Whether you're journaling on your own or gathering with a group, let these reflections open new perspectives on grace, identity, and what it means to live as a blessing.

Thinking for Ourselves

Explore a thought-provoking sermon from Roland Park Presbyterian Church on Genesis 22 and the story of Abraham and Isaac. Pastor Mark Hanna reflects on faith in uncertain times, the mystery of God’s love, and what it means to trust when life turns upside down.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Thinking for Ourselves

Dive deeper into this week’s challenging and beautiful story from Genesis 22. This guide offers thoughtful questions for reflection or group conversation centered on faith, freedom, and God’s presence in the unknown. Perfect for small groups or quiet moments of personal reflection.

Partners in Creation

In this thoughtful and poetic sermon, Pastor Mark reflects on the first creation story in Genesis 1 and explores the divine pattern of inviting, making space, and blessing. Through personal story, biblical insight, and theology, he invites us to consider our role in God’s ongoing creation. Read the full sermon here.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Partners in Creation

This week’s sermon discussion guide explores the themes of divine partnership, sacred freedom, and human responsibility in creation. Designed for personal reflection or group conversation, these questions help us live into God’s creative rhythm: Invite. Make Space. Bless.
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Revelation and Resistance: A New Heaven and Earth

Is Revelation really about destruction and judgment—or something more beautiful? In this powerful sermon, Pastor Mark wraps up our summer series with a surprising comparison (think Hallmark movies!) and a hopeful reimagining of the Bible’s final word. Come see how the end of the story might just be a new beginning.
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Sermon Discussion Guide: Revelation and Resistance: A New Heaven and Earth

Want to go deeper into Sunday’s message? This week’s discussion guide explores how Revelation invites us to return to love, resist the empire, and live with defiant hope. Great for personal reflection or small groups.

Revelation and Resistance: Why We Worship

In this powerful continuation of our Revelation and Resistance series, Pastor Mark Hanna takes us into the heart of Revelation 7—a vision of heavenly worship that turns our assumptions about salvation and worth upside down. With humor, honesty, and spiritual insight, he invites us to see worship not as a performance or a ticket to heaven, but as a radical act of remembering who God is—and who we are. "God is not stingy. God’s grace is sweeping."

Sermon Discussion Guide: Revelation and Resistance: Why We Worship

In this powerful continuation of our Revelation and Resistance series, Pastor Mark Hanna takes us into the heart of Revelation 7—a vision of heavenly worship that turns our assumptions about salvation and worth upside down. With humor, honesty, and spiritual insight, he invites us to see worship not as a performance or a ticket to heaven, but as a radical act of remembering who God is—and who we are. "God is not stingy. God’s grace is sweeping."