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.

Misunderstood Forgiveness

Mar 31, 2019

Jim Somerville: "God's circle is big, big enough to hold the entire world. What bothers God is not people coming inside the circle who shouldn't be there, but people who are inside the circle slipping out..."

Taste and See that the Lord Heals

Mar 27, 2019

Dr. Jim Somerville's Lenten homily from Wednesday, March 27, 2019.

Emerson Shelton

Mar 24, 2019

Emerson Shelton's homily from the Service of Prayer for Healing, Sunday, March 24, 2019.

Misunderstood Scripture

Mar 24, 2019

Jim Somerville: "Some people seem to have this idea that God wrote the Bible and then dropped it from heaven just as it is, all 66 books from Genesis to Revelation, and that all of those books—in fact every verse, every word—carries equal authority because all of them are the words of God, written with his own...

Taste and See that the Lord Provides

Mar 21, 2019

Dr. Jim Somerville's Lenten homily from Wednesday, March 20, 2019.