by Jim Somerville | May 23, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., May 19, 2013 The Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 Last Sunday Lee Hilbert surprised me by coming forward at the end of the 8:30 service and asking if he could make an announcement. I was a little...
by Jim Somerville | May 17, 2013 | Opinion
Recently, I had the fun of going to Glen Lea Elementary School in Richmond, Va., with the staff from First Baptist Church and surprising the teachers with a show of appreciation. We knocked on classroom doors. When the teacher opened the door, we would burst in and...
by Jim Somerville | May 16, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., May 12, 2013 The Seventh Sunday of Easter Acts 16:16-34 Can you believe it’s still Easter? That’s not what it says on most calendars. Most calendars say that today is Mother’s Day, but on the...
by Jim Somerville | May 9, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 16:9-15 When my brother Ed was here recently we went canoeing on the James River. I was in the front of the canoe—the bow—and he was in the stern. Ed is an...
by Jim Somerville | May 2, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. April 28, 2013 The Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 11:1-18 “Bless his heart.” Isn’t that what we do in the south when we say hateful things but don’t want to sound hateful? We just add those three...
