Jim Somerville: "Imagine sharing all [this] wisdom with your son and then watching him grow up to be just like you anyway: proud, privileged, and thinking that it's all about him. Solomon wants his son, and all of us who read the Book of Proverbs, to remember who is God and who is not. Because sometimes we forget…"

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, September 16, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "We laugh because it's true: this is how we are. I can get along with Muslims, I can even get along with Methodists. But show me a Baptist who doesn't see things just the way I do, and we've got problems. Sigmund Freud called this the 'Narcissism of Small Differences,' and argued that it's not the people who are most *different* from us we have trouble getting along with, but the ones who are most *like* us..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, September 9, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "Love, in the Song [of Solomon], is seen as a communion of souls expressed by tightly interlocking dialogue. Each describes the other's body, dwelling lovingly on each part as if to caress it with words, capturing its essence in striking, sometimes startling images. It makes me wonder: What is *this* doing in the Bible?"

An excerpt from the September 2, 2018 worship service.

Jim Somerville: "In the ten years I have been preaching at First Baptist, I haven't said much about the devil. There's a reason for that. It's not that I don't believe in the devil, it's just that some people believe too much..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, August 26, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "If you're standing at a fork in the road wondering which way to go and you take the time to pray, your chances are going to be a whole lot better than if you don't. Because I believe God made you and loves you and the last thing God wants is for you to be stumbling around in the dark, tripping over every root and rock on the wrong path..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, August 19, 2018.