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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.

Jul 1, 2012

Jim Somerville: "Right at the end of the book of 1 Samuel there is a story of how King Saul fell on his own sword and died at the end of a fierce battle with the Philistines on Mount Gilboa. David would have had plenty of reasons to be glad that Saul was dead. And yet when he got the news, the experience was almost...


Jun 24, 2012

Jim Somerville: “[David’s] was a secret anointing. Saul didn’t know and if he had known, he wouldn’t have liked it one little bit. But the Lord knew, and the spirit of the Lord that had rested on Saul began to rest upon David. Which left Saul with only his own troubled...


Jun 17, 2012

Jim Somerville: "But this time, when [the Israelites] lined up for battle, the ranks of the Philistine army separated and a champion stepped forward: Goliath of Gath, a giant of a man..."


Jun 10, 2012

Jim Somerville: "Times were hard in the land of Israel. Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was terrorizing the people of God who lived on his side the Jordan River, the East Bank. He would send his soldiers out in raiding parties and whenever they found one of the Israelites, they would gouge out his right eye..."