Jim Somerville: "Jesus taught us to think of God as a loving parent. It is not hard for me to imagine loving parents making sacrifices for the sake of their children. What is hard is for me to imagine loving parents sacrificing their children..."

Jacque Green: "Faith sees dimly, not face to face. God will reveal himself to us through the person of Jesus Christ, and as he does, we're going to have questions. We'll have questions when personal crisis thrusts its way into our lives with great force. When these situations land our doorsteps, we find ourselves asking, 'What the world?'..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, February 18, 2018, discussing the question: "What should we believe about Jesus?"

Jim Somerville: "I have to confess: the Epistles are hard for me. I have to work extra hard to figure out what those words meant then and there, and extra hard to bring the meaning into the here and now. And that's especially true for 1 Peter..."

Tiont Williams: "Our News Feed is very full, but oftentimes, we feel empty. We get one hundred likes on Instagram (or maybe ten), and if we don't get one hundred, we delete the picture. We try to find life in our Instagram likes. The only life that really matters is a life that is surrendered in Christ..."

Jim Somerville: "Today is a beginning. It's the beginning of this forty-day season of Lent. Here at First Baptist Church, it is the beginning of something we call, 'Journey to the Cross'..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's Valentine's Day message to Community Missions from Wednesday, February 14, 2018.

Craig Waddell: "Sometimes we experience something so amazing, so great, [that] we lay our interpretation on top of it, to try and capture it, or insist on how others interpret it. Sometimes we just need to be amazed and have our breath taken away..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, February 11, 2018.

Charlotte Evans: "Encountering God is not usually a mountaintop experience. It's not Jesus in dazzling robes, surrounded by a cloud. God confronts us when we least expect it. We are picking up the kids from soccer practice, we are driving to work, we are hurrying to a doctor's appointment. They are 'holy nudges'..."