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...
A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
March 2, 2020
A stranger once asked Jim Somerville, “Have you been born again?” He thought he should say yes, and eventually he did, but it left him wondering: “Why would anyone ask that question in the first...