How Advent Prepares Us for the Day Ahead

Churches following the lectionary – a group of Scripture lessons determined by the Christian calendar – might find the Advent Scriptures this year to be odd. The selected texts focus not on the birth narratives of Jesus but on his second coming – what Jeremiah calls...

What If this Is It?

A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on December 16, 2012. The Third Sunday of Advent Luke 3:7-18 On a day like this one, it’s not so hard to believe the world is coming to an end.  The tragic shooting at Sandy Hook...

This is Our God

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, A.R., on Apr. 12 2009. Isaiah 25:6-9; John 20:1-18.                    You are sitting in a movie theater. You’ve got your overpriced popcorn and your large soft drink, and you’ve...