by Jim Somerville | Nov 15, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on November 11, 2012. The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be...
by Jim Somerville | Nov 13, 2012 | Opinion
I was buying my meal ticket for our Wednesday night supper at church when Mina Tatum asked me, “What was that you said in your sermon a few weeks ago? That only 17 percent of the American population is in church on any given Sunday?” Yes, that was it....
by Jim Somerville | Nov 8, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on November 4, 2012. All Saints’ Sunday Ruth 1:1-18 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the...
by Jim Somerville | Nov 1, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on October 28, 2012. The Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost Job 42:1-6, 10-17 Then Job answered the Lord: 2“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be...
by Jim Somerville | Oct 25, 2012 | General
A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on October 21, 2012. The Twenty First Sunday after Pentecost Job 38:1-7 (34-41) Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without...
