What Does God Look Like to You?

Every child wants to know, and many have the courage to ask, “What does God look like?” The adult in all of us wants to quickly answer in a theologically correct way saying, “God cannot be pictured. An image is idolatrous because no one image can...

Follow the Light

A sermon by Michael Cheuk, Pastor, University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va. January 26, 2014. Matthew 4:12-23 In Farmville, Virginia, Tommy Pairet ran a T-Shirt shop right next to Farmville Baptist, the church I pastored for seven years.  In the shop window,...

Why Are We Here?

A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on August 19, 2012. The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 10:1-8 Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to...