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Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 6th of Tenth Month, 2024 (World Quaker Day) Speaker: Brian Young 1 Peter 3:13-17...
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Sep 23
We Are All Weeds
Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 22nd of Ninth Month, 2024 Speaker: Brian Young Isaiah 11:1-3a , Mark 4:30-32 (...
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West Richmond Friends
Aug 21
Judgment and Separation
Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 18th of Eight Month, 2024 Speaker: Brian Young Matthew 25:31-46 Christ of the...
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West Richmond Friends
Jun 11
The Shepherd, the Sheep, and the Sheepfold
Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 14th of Fourth Month, 2024 Speaker: Brian Young Scripture: John 10:11-18, Psalm 4...
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Brian Young
Oct 7, 2023
The Grain that Falls & Dies
Well, the weather has turned here in Richmond. Just in the last couple of days we’ve had the first really cool temperatures of the season:
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Brian Young
Sep 23, 2023
Gospel Order, part II
We’re picking up again where we left off two weeks ago, with this passage from Matthew 18, and adding another to it, from Matthew’s fifth
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Brian Young
Sep 9, 2023
Gospel Order, Part I
One of our treasured pieces of Quaker vocabulary is the phrase, “Gospel Order”. I don’t know where this term came from or when...
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Brian Young
Feb 26, 2023
Clarification, Purification, Preparation
Last week when Lucy Price spoke, she reminded us of the season known as Lent, the season we have now entered. Lucy made the standard Quaker
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Brian Young
Dec 24, 2022
Good News of Great Joy
It’s good to be with all of you this evening, though the weather conditions mean that our Zoom congregation is much larger than our in-perso
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Brian Young
Oct 23, 2022
Praying Where We Are
Have you ever had someone take your words and distort them, either because of honest misunderstanding, or willful intent? If you have, and y
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Brian Young
Oct 15, 2022
The Law Written Upon the Heart
It was once said that, were the Bible to be lost—all of its various manuscripts and translations somehow destroyed—that it could be recovere
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Brian Young
Sep 10, 2022
Well-Practiced Love
About twenty-five years ago, Friends from various Yearly Meetings and organizations called a special conference on voluntary service that wa
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Brian Young
May 21, 2022
The City, the Temple, the River, the Tree
The Quaker scholar Wess Daniels has written a fair bit on Revelation, on the passage that we just heard, and the book as a whole. One of the
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Brian Young
May 7, 2022
Listening for the Voice of the Shepherd
Some years ago, I was asked to help clerk a couple of meetings for discernment for a small Friends Meeting that was struggling. The meeting
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Brian Young
Apr 16, 2022
The Negative Space of the Tomb
Today is the day we celebrate resurrection. Today we remember that Jesus, who willingly went to his death on the cross, and was laid in the
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Brian Young
Apr 9, 2022
The Things That Make for Peace
Today we’ve heard Luke's account of what is often called, “The Triumphal Entry,” the story of Jesus' coming into Jerusalem prior to the time
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Brian Young
Mar 19, 2022
Faithfulness in Community
Today we’re beginning where we left off last Sunday, in the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. If you were with us then,
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Brian Young
Mar 13, 2022
The Faith and The Faithfulness of Christ
When I was a child we lived in Chicago for a few years, on the city’s south side, and one of the many treasures of our neighborhood was the
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Brian Young
Feb 27, 2022
The Fulcrum of Faithfulness
Message for worship at West Richmond Friends Meeting, 27th of Second Month, 2022 Speaker: Brian Young Scripture: Luke 22:39-42,45-46 39...
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Brian Young
Feb 13, 2022
No Shadow of Turning
Most of you probably know from personal experience what it is to turn your ankle, yes? Most of us know that sick feeling when you put your
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