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Sermon Discussion Guide: Your Small Voice

Continue reflecting on “Your Small Voice” with questions about power, complicity, accountability, political participation, and using our voices in service of God’s justice.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Choose This Day

Continue reflecting on “Choose This Day” with questions about memory, truth-telling, inherited blessings, suffering, and the daily practice of gratitude.

Sermon Discussion Guide: The Shape of Freedom

Continue reflecting on “The Shape of Freedom” with questions about liberation, the Ten Commandments, Sabbath, power, neighbor-love, and faith embodied in daily life.

Sermon Discussion Guide: A Way Where There Is No Way

Continue reflecting on “A Way Where There Is No Way” with questions about fear, freedom, faithful action, justice, and trusting the God who keeps loving us back to life.

Sermon Discussion Guide: What Is Already Blessed?

Continue reflecting on “What Is Already Blessed?” with questions about trust, calling, service, and recognizing where God’s love is already moving.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Begin Again: Flood and Promise, Part II

How can prayer carry us through a storm without shutting out our neighbors? Use these questions to explore the ark’s window, God’s care for creation, and the welcome we offer others.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Begin Again: Flood and Promise, Part I

Continue reflecting on Noah’s flood with questions about grace, forgiveness, repair, re-creation and God’s invitation to begin again.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Disputing with God: God's Will Be Done

Continue reflecting on Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane with questions about honest faith, the Holy Spirit, fear-based images of God and the courage to trust that we are never left alone.

Disputing with God: Advocating for Others

In this sermon on Genesis 18, Pastor Mark Hanna revisits the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and invites us to read it through the biblical call to hospitality, not exclusion. He explores how Scripture asks us to wrestle with justice, mercy, covenant, and the ways our lives are bound together. This sermon offers permission to bring our questions, doubts, and evolving images of God into a living faith.

Sermon Discussion Guide: Disputing with God: Advocating for others

This discussion guide invites reflection on Genesis 18, hospitality to strangers, and the relationship between justice and mercy. Use these questions to explore how Scripture can lead us toward greater love of God and neighbor. Wherever you are in your faith journey, there’s a place for your questions at RPPC.