C38: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 8, 2022
“Today’s Gospel lesson, Luke 12:49-56, is hard! Jesus asks, ‘Did you think I came to bring peace to the earth?’ Well, yes, Jesus, yes, I did. You are the Prince of Peace. I don’t like...
B36: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
July 26, 2021
The woman who had just rear ended Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, came running at him, shaking her fists. “It was your fault!…This whole...
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...
C38: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
August 12, 2019
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author, begins this week’s sermon by explaining how he got a call asking him to come to Charlottesville to join the group of clergy praying for those protesting in...
B36: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
July 23, 2018
Dr. Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon on this week’s Gospel lesson from John 6:1-21 called “Was It Stone Soup?” “This miracle...