Jim Somerville: "Once every three years the story of Mary and Martha comes up in the lectionary readings. And because I am a lectionary preacher, I have preached on this story more than once. In each of those sermons I also found myself wanting to defend Martha..."

An evening with Dr. Roberta Damon from Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

Jim Somerville: "Maybe that’s what God meant when he commanded us to love our neighbors. Maybe he meant that we have to look at them and listen to them and hear their stories, that until we do we will never know what it’s like to be them, and that of course you can’t love what you don’t know..."

An evening with Rev. Andrea Skeens from Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

Jim Somerville: "What if they don’t come to us? What if the thought of going to church on a Sunday morning never crosses their minds? What then? I sometimes say that if people won’t come to church then the church has to go to them..."

Lynn Turner: "Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night thinking that you have had a nudge from God to do something? You try to get back to sleep, but the thought of what you have heard from God keeps you wide awake...?"

Betty Ann Dillon's message from the Service of Prayer for Healing, June 23, 2019.

Jim Somerville: "That’s what we do sometimes with people who are different: we dismiss them. I’m thinking especially about those we dismiss because of mental illness, because something up there 'isn’t quite right.' And there’s a huge stigma attached to mental illness..."

Jim Somerville: "Hi. My name is Jim Somerville and I’m your pastor. Part of my job is to preach sermons on Sunday morning and that’s why I’m here. But there is another part of my job you may not even know about. It’s called premarital counseling..."

Jim Somerville: "What would First Baptist Church do with an extra fifty thousand dollars in the budget? We talked about that for a while, but eventually consensus began to build around the idea of doing something in the area of ministry to young adults..."