Richmond's First Baptist Church

Dr. Scott Spencer: January 22 – Reading Someone Else’s Mail: Apostolic Letters

Dr. Jim Somerville's homily from the deacon ordination service, January 19, 2020.

Jim Somerville: "Envy is when you can’t be happy unless someone else is miserable..."

Dr. Scott Spencer: January 15 – Write Me the Story of Jesus: Gospel Narratives

Jim Somerville: "As long as I hate you, you are still in my thoughts, in fact you may occupy most of my thoughts, but when I am indifferent I just don’t care anymore. I don’t even care enough to hate you. And that’s the problem with pride..."

Dr. Scott Spencer: January 8 – Will the Real New Testament Please Stand Up?

Jim Somerville: "We all know quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy, and they are not happy, because they want something else or they want more of the same..."

Patrick Jackson's sermon from the First Sunday after Christmas, December 29, 2019.

Jim Somerville: "The gift I would love to give you today is the quiet, confident faith that keeps you from being anxious, the kind that assures you that no matter what, everything is going to be okay..."

Dr. Roberta Damon's homily from the Service of Remembrance, Sunday, December 15, 2019.