On the Road with Jesus: Zacchaeus

A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. November 3, 2013 All Saints’ Sunday Luke 19:1-10 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who...

On the Road with Jesus: The Ten Lepers

A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. October 13, 2013 The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost Luke 17:11-19 Nine years ago last Monday I was sitting in the back of a minivan with some other preachers headed to West Virginia for a...

On the Road with Jesus: Increase Our Faith!

A sermon by Jim Somerville, pastor of First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. Luke 17:5-10 October 6, 2013 Believe it or not, it’s October, and believe it or not, we are still on the road with Jesus—watching everything he does, listening to every word he says, following...

On the Road with Jesus: the Rich Man and Lazarus

On the Road with Jesus: the Rich Man and Lazarus Richmond’s First Baptist Church, September 29, 2013 The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 16:19-31 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his...