B03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year B (2020)
December 7, 2020
“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...
A37: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 3, 2020
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...
A33: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
July 6, 2020
Why did Jesus teach in parables? The disciples asked Jesus, and Jesus responds something along these lines, “They think they know everything about who God is and how he works. Their minds have become so...
A32: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
June 29, 2020
“It is a relief after chapter 10 to come to Matthew 11:25-30,” says Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday. “Come to me all you that...