This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 1/26/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 4:14-30. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now The Gospel of Luke tells us that after his …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 1/12/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-23a. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now We’re just coming out of the Advent …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 12/8/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 3:1-18. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now Today is the second Sunday in the season of …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 11/24/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Revelation 1:4-8 & John 18:33-40. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now Today is Christ the King …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 11/09/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Jeremiah 29:1-14. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now This is how Jerusalem was captured: in the ninth …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 10/27/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Job 42:1-6, Mark 10:46-52. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now I don’t know what the editors of …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 10/13/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Hebrews 4:12-16, Mark 10:17-31. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to Sermon Now Having heard our gospel reading this morning, …
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