This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 12/28/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: John 1:1-14. Listen to Sermon Now This is for the radical ones. The prologue to John’s Gospel is for the radical ones. It’s for those of us who want to get down to the root …
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 12/14/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Matthew 11:2-19. Listen to Sermon Now The Bible is an amazing library of texts, and no matter how many times I have read a certain passage, I find that there is usually something new to …
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. Listen to Sermon Now 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 …
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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 …