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, 4/13/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 19:28-48. 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 Palm Sunday. It’s the beginning of Holy …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 2/23/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 6:27-38. 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 In our Quakerism 101 class this week, Dorothy Kakimoto …
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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, 8/11/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: 1 Kings 19:1-18. 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 This morning’s scripture passage is a Quaker favorite. …
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This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 9/25/22, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: 1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31. 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 I have walked by homeless people …