Richmond's First Baptist Church

Dr. Somerville preaches the second of the four part series entitled, "Faith of our Mothers."  Today he talks about Naomi, and how she, through difficult circumstances is able to arrange for Ruth's provision.  And through that the stage is set for the future appearance of King David, and eventually Jesus.

Dr. Allison Collier preaches today, and begins our latest sermon series entitled, "Faith of our Mothers."  Today she starts that series talking about Ruth, a woman who had some difficult choices to make, and didn't back down in the face of adversity.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dr. Jim Somerville preaches about the fact that we are divided in so many ways in our nation, whether that be politically, religiously, culturally or in other ways, and specifically how that relates to how we are trying to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. But maybe, Dr. Somerville says, we are just doing things differently than others may do them. We should be careful that we are not making enemies of them when the real enemy may be within us.  Jesus is telling us that "Whoever is not against us is for us."

Dr. Jim Somerville continues his sermon series entitled "Letting the Outsiders in."  Today he talks about children, how Jesus welcomed the little children, called them the 'least of these', and warned people about leading them astray. He lists a series of characteristics of children that we would be good to emulate.

Dr. Jim Somerville talks about reasons that people outside of the church (not-members) are hesitant to come or visit our church, and offers some ideas about how we are a place that they should want to plug into.

Jim Somerville tackles a difficult saying that Jesus uttered to a Syrophoenician woman who had asked him to heal her daughter.

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