Suffering: What Was The Reason?

Suffering: What Was The Reason?

Things Happen.  Those words don’t originate with me but from Dr. Renita Weems, a beloved womanist theologian and scholar. She used them during a sermon called “Unfinished Business.”  In this sermon, she said she had to come face to face with how her theology wounded...

Job: a Man in Full

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...

Job: Only a Man

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...

Job: a Broken Man

A sermon delivered by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., on October 7, 2012. The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost Job: 1:1, 2:1-10 There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, one who feared...

Dealing with God

Sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, pastor of Pulaski Heights Baptist Church in Little Rock, A.R., on October 11 2009. Job 23:1-9, 16-17; Hebrews 4:12-16             I’m not really sure just exactly what I expected from seminary. I had been a religion major in college, so...