Richmond's First Baptist Church

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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.

David IV: King at Last

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...