Jim Somerville: "I tried to remember what it was in my own life that moved me to be baptized, and although the story is a long one, and a strange one, maybe you can hear some echoes of your own story."

Jim Somerville: "A few weeks ago I told you that with some people, the better you get to know them the more you see their humanity, but with Jesus, the better you get to know him the more you see his divinity..."

Ann Carter: "This fall, when the refugee crisis began hitting the news circuits, I paid attention. Since the start of the Arab Spring of 2010, I have been watching with prayerful interest as events unfold..."

Jim Somerville: "I've been thinking about the international students who have been visiting with us recently, and wondering how well they know [the Christmas] story. ... So, with your permission, let me tell this story as if I were telling it to someone who had never heard it before, and let me start at the very beginning."

Jim Somerville: "Several weeks ago I preached a sermon on the Bible, and suggested that the Bible is 'a love letter from God.' One of the people who heard that sermon was six-and-a-half-year-old Madelyn El-Khouri..."

Jim Somerville: "I was at the Jewish Community Center last week for my regular Tuesday night workout when one of my Jewish friends asked, "Are you waiting for Advent at your church?"'

Jim Somerville: "It's the perfect time to ask ourselves how we will get ready for the coming of Christ."

David Garrison: For nearly 30 years Dr. David Garrison has been a missionary pioneer with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. His faith journey has led him to study a dozen languages and travel through 100 countries.

Jim Somerville: "There seems to be a common assumption that while bodies die, souls do not; that our bodies are buried in the ground while our souls fly off to heaven. Maybe that’s what you’ve always believed, but it is not the biblical view."

Jim Somerville: "These days the church in America is struggling, and the title I’ve chosen for my sermon is a question more and more people, and especially young people, seem to be asking: 'Who needs the church?'"