by Jim Somerville | Sep 26, 2013 | General
A sermon by, Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. September 22, 2013 The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 16:1-13 Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was...
by Jim Somerville | Sep 23, 2013 | Opinion
I preached on the “parable of the lost sheep” from Luke 15 recently, which begins with the notice that “all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to Jesus, and the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This...
by Jim Somerville | Sep 19, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. September 15, 2013 The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 15:1-10 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling...
by Jim Somerville | Sep 12, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. September 8, 2013 One Sunday Luke 10:1-11, 17-20 Today we come to the end of a year-long, every-member mission trip called KOH2RVA, which has been all about bringing the “Kingdom of Heaven to...
by Jim Somerville | Sep 5, 2013 | General
A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. September 1, 2013 The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Luke 14:1, 7-14 On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were...