Message for August 14, 2016

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Listen to the most recent message from Sunday worship at Berkeley Friends Church. The speaker is our Pastor Brian C. Young.  The Scripture reading is 1 John 1:5-7.   [audio mp3="http://www.berkeleyfriendschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-08-14_message.mp3"][/audio]
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Message for July 31, 2016

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Listen to the most recent message from Sunday worship at Berkeley Friends Church. The speaker is our Pastor Brian C. Young.  The scripture reading is Ecclesiastes 5:1 - 2.  [audio mp3="http://www.berkeleyfriendschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2016-07-31_message.mp3"][/audio]
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Message for July 24, 2016

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Listen to the most recent message from our pastor Brian C. Young.  The scripture reading was Isaiah 30: 15-18.  [audio mp3="http://www.berkeleyfriendschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-07-24-message.mp3"][/audio]
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Message for July 10, 2016

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[audio mp3="http://www.berkeleyfriendschurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-07-10-message.mp3"][/audio] Listen to the most recent message from our pastor Brian C. Young.  The scripture reading was Psalm 22: 1 - 2, 14 - 15. The reading at the end is the "Litany for Those Who Are Not Ready for Healing" mentioned in a previous post; note that Brian re-orders it slightly from the way it was originally written.
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At whose table would we not be caught dead?

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...this was a question I asked in the message this past Sunday. If you were there, you remember that we read Peter's summary in Acts 11 of the great vision he has of all of the animals of creation, clean and unclean, and God's voice bidding him to eat of all of them--and then, when Peter demurs, saying, “don't call unholy what I have made clean.” Of course, once Peter comes into contact with the Gentile centurion Cornelius and his household, Peter realizes that the vision is about people and not food, and the Spirit confirms this by descending upon Cornelius and his people just as it did upon the apostles at Pentecost. Once Peter returns to Jerusalem, some of the Judean apostles take him to task for visiting and…
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