This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 05/25/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Acts 2:1-22. Listen to Sermon Now I love the story of Pentecost. The coming of the Holy Spirit. The creation of the church in Jerusalem. That moment when the Holy Spirit gathered the many disciples…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 05/10/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Acts 17:22-31. Listen to Sermon Now At Berkeley Friends Church, we’re exploring how we can go deeper in our discipleship to Jesus. Through the Day One Taskforce, through our membership class curriculum, through our small…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 04/28/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Ezekiel 34:1-16; John 10:1-16. Listen to Sermon Now A very long time ago, God called Abraham. God appeared to him and told him that he would be blessed with a family, even though he and…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 04/05/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Mark 16:1-8; John 20. Listen to Sermon Now Two weeks ago I preached on Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus. In that sermon I explored the idea of theodicy, the problem of why evil exists in the…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 03/22/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: John 11:1-44. Listen to Sermon Now There are a lot of reasons that a person might doubt the existence of God or the truth claims of Christianity. One of the most common reasons for this…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 03/08/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Romans 5:1-11. Listen to Sermon Now I’ve got a good friend who is a very mild mannered, polite, and respectful guy. But when he gets into traffic he gets very frustrated, to the degree that…
This is a sermon that I preached on Sunday, 02/22/26, at Berkeley Friends Church. The scripture reading for this sermon was: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 & Romans 5:12-19. Listen to Sermon Now I was a pretty weird kid. At least, I felt like I was weird. My mom definitely thought I was weird. My mom likes to…