“Have you noticed that the lectionary readings for today are all about call?…It’s enough to make you stop and consider your own call,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of...

“Today’s Gospel lesson, Luke 2:22-40, seems perfect for the end of a year, almost any year but perhaps especially this one.  It’s the story of an old man holding a baby in his arms and...

“John wasn’t hurting anybody. He was just out there in the wilderness preaching and baptizing when the posse from the Pharisees rode up,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of...

Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of a Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon for All Saints’ Sunday called “The End of the Story,” based on Revelation 21:1-6a. Where do...

Jim Somerville wasn’t always a Baptist, but then he fell in love with a pretty Baptist girl and married not only into her family but into her church. His father-in-law once told him (with a...