What Is A Quaker?

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 11/12/23, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was:  John 1:1-18. 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 I don’t go around shouting from the rooftops, telling …

What Does It Mean to Worship ‘In Spirit and In Truth’?

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 10/22/23, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was:  John 4:5-24. 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 reading this morning, Jesus says to the …

We Encounter God In This Mysterious Conversation

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 6/11/23, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was:  Genesis 12:1-9 & Matthew 9:9-26. 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 There is a song that has …

If God Became Human, Could Humans Become God?

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 12/26/21, at Berkeley Friends Church (via videoconference). The scripture reading for this sermon was: John 1:1-18 & Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7. 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 the …

Crossing the Greatest Divide

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 9/12/21, at Berkeley Friends Church (via videoconference). The scripture reading for this sermon was: Mark 8:27-38. 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 During the decade or so …

Do You Feel Left Out At Church? So Did The Apostle Thomas

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 4/11/21, at Berkeley Friends Church (via videoconference). The scripture reading for this sermon was: John 20:19-31. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to the Sermon Now It was night time …

Why is the Cross a Symbol of Christianity? It Didn’t Used to Be!

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 2/28/21, at Berkeley Friends Church (via videoconference). The scripture reading for this sermon was: Mark 8:31-9:1. You can listen to the audio, or keeping scrolling to read my manuscript. (The spoken sermon differs from the written text.) Listen to the Sermon Now The early Christian church …