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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.

Oct 26, 2021

Jim Somerville wraps up his 'Following the Rules" sermon series with a sermon focusing on the distinctions between being cured from some affliction and being healed, and how it is important to understand the distinction between the two.


Oct 18, 2021

Dr. Jim Somerville says that the way of following Jesus will often be filled with humility, suffering, being baptized by fire and almost never looks like success, but on the other side of it all there is new life.


Oct 11, 2021

If you knew that somewhere in your future, there was a moment that would change your life forever, would you seize it?


Oct 4, 2021

Jesus is known for "upsetting the apple cart" when it came to how the Pharisees viewed God's rules as set forth in the Old Testament.  In fact he was setting new rules based on how God truly intends for us to live and relate with others.