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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.

Sep 24, 2017

Jim Somerville: "None of [this] squares with our understanding of how things work. We have learned that a day's work equals a day's pay, and we have assumed that when God finally pays up, those of us who have worked the hardest will get the most. Not so. If this parable teaches us anything, it teaches us that there's no...


Sep 24, 2017

Dr. Jim Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, September 24, 2017.


Sep 17, 2017

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Talkback" from Sunday, September 17, 2017. In this visit with the Bethany class, topics include racial justice, reincarnation, purgatory, and the existence of miracles.


Sep 17, 2017

Jim Somerville: "The more I've thought about [injustice], the more I've realized that you could fix every broken thing out there, in the world, without fixing what's broken in here, in the heart. There is an undeniable power in the act of forgiveness. In some ways it is even stronger than the power of justice..."


Sep 10, 2017

Jim Somerville: "I want you to think for a moment about where Jesus did his ministry. He didn't build a church, and put in pews, and hold services on Sunday morning, and take up an offering. He went out there where the people are, and he met them on their own terms. If they were sick, he healed them. If they...