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Richmond's First Baptist Church is a unique congregation where people from diverse cultural, ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds join together to put God’s love in action. All find a home in our church with opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship, and service.

Our people celebrate and draw strength from our diversity, which finds its unity in the Lord Jesus Christ. We embrace an international perspective with more than ten different languages spoken among our members. Men and women serve as deacons and as ordained staff in leading services and preaching sermons.

Mar 26, 2006

Peter James Flamming: "You *will* choose a shepherd. [You will not] go through life only as a leader. You will follow someone, or something. Usually, the pressures of the world. Jesus countered that by saying, 'I am the good...


Mar 19, 2006

Peter James Flamming: "Doors play two roles for us. When they're closed, they protect. When they're open, they create possibilities. A crucial question for all of us today is: What door of my life needs the Lord Jesus to be there? Either to open it up, or shut...


Mar 12, 2006

Peter James Flamming: "In the chaotic times of life, we are told that God, in Christ, will step in and begin to bring some order, will begin to fashion some purpose, will begin to bring light in the midst of the darkness... when we are, frankly, very weak."


Mar 5, 2006

Peter James Flamming: "[Intensity] is part of us, it's part of the air we breathe. What are you going to do with it? What you can do is begin to balance it by an equal inner intensity that works from the inside out..."