by Jim Somerville | Apr 4, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Easter Sunday Acts 10:34-43 Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to...
by Jim Somerville | Mar 21, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The Fifth Sunday in Lent John 12:1-8 Today we conclude a Lenten sermon series called “Teach us to number our days,” based on a line from Psalm 90 where Moses says, “The days of our years are...
by Jim Somerville | Mar 20, 2013 | Opinion
Recently, I went to something called an Interfaith Friendship Dinner in the Adams Room at Richmond’s First Baptist Church. There were about 30 people there, mostly Episcopalians, with a generous number of Muslims, Baptists and Presbyterians mixed in. (The Jewish...
by Jim Somerville | Mar 14, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The Third Sunday in Lent Luke 13:1-9 At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think...
by Jim Somerville | Mar 14, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The Second Sunday in Lent Luke 13:31-35 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me,...
