A05: The Nativity of the Lord, Year A (2016)
December 8, 2016
Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, agrees with the author of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to mourn, but there is also a time...
C51: The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 26, 2016
“One of the things I appreciate most about preaching from the lectionary is that it often leads me to preach passages of scripture I would have never chosen on my own,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor...
C50: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 26, 2016
“It’s not everyday that the Bible makes a grown man cry. But I remember one day that it did. It was this passage from Luke’s gospel that did it,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...
C45: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
September 9, 2016
“If I were making a list of all the things I wish Jesus never said, this saying about having faith the size of a mustard seed would be near the top…because it makes people think...
C46: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
September 9, 2016
In October, a month that often focuses on stewardship in churches, it could be tempting for a pastor to use today’s passage, Luke 17:11-19, the story of the ten lepers, to preach on tithing. Ten...