This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 11/23/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Jeremiah 23:1-6 & Colossians 1:11-20 & Luke 23:33-43. Listen to Sermon Now It’s not easy to be a grown-up. Don’t get me wrong; there are a lot of hard things about being a kid. In …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 11/09/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 20:27-38. In our reading this morning from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is teaching in the Temple at Jerusalem, and he’s being confronted by various religious authorities – Pharisees and Sadducees – who seek …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 10/05/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Isaiah 29:13-14 & Matthew 6:5-15. Listen to Sermon Now With everything that is happening in our lives and in our nation right now, I feel like it’s good to get back to basics. We don’t …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 9/28/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Ephesians 6:10-13, Revelation 12:7-12. In December 1944, Allied soldiers huddled in frozen foxholes during the Battle of the Bulge. They faced some of the war’s most vicious fighting. The Nazis had launched a massive counteroffensive, …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 8/31/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Hebrews 13:1-16. Listen to Sermon Now It’s been a long summer. A long year. A long decade. We’ve been through a lot as individuals, as a church, as a country. With political upheavals, a global …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 8/10/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Isaiah 1:1, 10-20; Luke 12:32-40. 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 It has been a very odd …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 7/27/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 11:1-13. 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 A Silent Quaker Learns to Pray With Words When …