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.

The Passion of the Poet

Aug 30, 2021

Bread of Life: Where Else Would We Go?

Aug 26, 2021

In his fifth sermon from the "Bread of Life" series, Dr. Jim Somerville talks about what went wrong when Jesus preached to 5,000 people that dwindled to twelve disciples.

Bread of Life: Not For Everyone

Aug 16, 2021

In his fourth sermon from the "Bread of Life" series, Dr. Jim Somerville talks about the living bread that came down from heaven, and the promise that anyone who eats this bread will live forever.

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Bread of Life: Live Forever

Aug 9, 2021

In the third sermon from his Bread of Life series, Pastor Jim Somerville shifts the bread theme from physical bread to spiritual bread, based on Jesus saying in John, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever." John 6:35, 41-51

August 8, 2021

Bread of Life: Never Hunger

Aug 2, 2021

In the second sermon in his Bread of Life series, Pastor Jim Somerville extends an invitation to become more and more like Jesus and to be truly satisfied as we take Him in as The Bread of Life.

"Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never...