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, 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 …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 7/13/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Psalm 82 & Deuteronomy 30:9-14. 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 It’s easy to feel out of …