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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.

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Talkback, 9/25/16

Sep 25, 2016

Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, September 25, 2016.

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Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?

Sep 25, 2016

Jim Somerville: "Anyone who doesn't know [Sally Ann] might wonder why she's up here today. 'What could she possibly know about pain and suffering?' And yet she does know something. All of us know something. And if we don't yet, we soon will..."

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Talkback, 9/18/16

Sep 18, 2016

Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, September 18, 2016.

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Is There a God?

Sep 18, 2016

Jim Somerville: "In biblical times [the] concept of God worked pretty well. People who lived back then didn't know what we know now. They believed the world was mostly flat..."

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Does Life Have a Purpose?

Sep 11, 2016

Jim Somerville: "When I talk to some people about this broken world they wonder why God let it get broken in the first place. Why would he hand his creation over to people who would do such damage to it?"

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