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.

Getting Right with God I

May 29, 2016

Jim Somerville: "At last week's Wednesday night supper I took a survey, handing out small slips of paper with one question on them: 'Do you believe that every person will one day stand before God? Yes or No. Circle one.'"

Lord of the Dance

May 22, 2016

Lynn Turner: "While on vacation at the beach, I was out walking one morning and on beach chair after beach chair I noticed an unusual number of folks reading the same book..."

The Power to Pull Us Together

May 15, 2016

Jim Somerville: "... Let's see what we can learn from these few verses subtitled, 'The Tower of Babel'."

Talkback, 5/8/16

May 8, 2016

Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, May 1, 2016. Topics include Pentecost, tongues, love in the Gospel of John, and the future of the American church.

The Body of Christ: Risen, Pt. 6

May 8, 2016

Jim Somerville: "... My friend Drexel Rayford says, 'To do something in Jesus' name is to do it in a way that is consistent with the nature and character of Jesus.' It is to do what Jesus himself might do. And that’s when the trouble really started..."