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.

No Greater Love

Feb 28, 2018

Jim Somerville: "I have a hard time with tonight's lesson: the story from Genesis 22, when Abraham takes his son Isaac up on the mountain to offer him as a sacrifice..."

Pastor's Class, 2/25/18

Feb 25, 2018

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, February 25, 2018.

Lent Letters: Romans

Feb 25, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Rhetoric means 'doing things with words.' A ghost story is meant to scare you; a love story is meant to make you swoon; a motivational speech is meant to move you to action; a commercial is meant to make you buy something. When you start paying attention you begin to see that rhetoric is all around you..."

Children's Sermon, 2/25/18

Feb 25, 2018

Dr. Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, February 25, 2018.

In the Beginning

Feb 21, 2018

Jim Somerville: "Jesus taught us to think of God as a loving parent. It is not hard for me to imagine loving parents making sacrifices for the sake of their children. What is hard is for me to imagine loving parents sacrificing their children..."