It’s Time To Find Out

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 3/23/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 13:1-9. 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 remember being in the fourth grade at Washington …

I Will Show You The Way of the Desert

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 3/9/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 4:1-13. 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 Today is the first Sunday in Lent. Lent is …

“Love Your Enemies” – The Hardest Command of All

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 …

The Kingdom of God is a Drag Net

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 2/9/25, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 5:1-11. 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 from the Gospel of …

The Jesus Inauguration: From Praise to Rage

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 1/26/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 4:14-30. 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 The Gospel of Luke tells us that after his …

This is Just the Beginning

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 1/12/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Acts 8:14-17; Luke 3:15-23a. 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 We’re just coming out of the Advent …

Facing Destiny: Thomas Kelly’s Call to Faith Amid Darkness

This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 12/8/24, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Luke 3:1-18. 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 Today is the second Sunday in the season of …