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- 55 min
- The Book of Job, Part IV
Jim Somerville: "We do have a concept of heaven, and one of the easiest answers to the problem of suffering in this world is to say, 'Well, in the next world things will be better.' But where did we get such an idea? If Job didn’t have it, why do we...?"
22 min - A Seat at the Table
Josie Carver: "In our story, blindness is a physical condition. But what of all the many familiar, metaphorical phrases that refer to vision? 'Seeing is believing.' 'A lens for the world' or 'point of view'. 'Even a blind pig finds an acorn occasionally' and 'a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple'..."
15 min - 1 hr 1 min
- The Book of Job, Part IIIJim Somerville: "Sometimes there is a connection between what we do and what happens to us. It's why your mother told you not to play with matches, not to run with scissors. Sometimes bad things do happen for a reason. But often they do not..."22 min
- 5 min
- The Weight of Expectation
Josie Carver: ""Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of expectations...?"
17 min - 54 min
- The Book of Job, Part II
Jim Somerville: "Some people get good hands and others don't. Here's what's in my hand: I was born white, male, and American, and in this world those cards are highly valued. When I compare my hand with the hand of a poor, black, uneducated woman from Somalia, I see how unfair life can be. It's not fair for her mostly because we live in a world where the majority of people seem to believe that light skin is preferable to dark skin, that the strength and swagger of men is to be rewarded over the nurture and service of women, that the kind of education you can get from books is more important than the kind of education you can get from life. In other words, we humans have decided what we value and what we don't, but it doesn't mean that God shares our values..."
22 min - 7 min
About Richmond's First Baptist Church
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First Baptist Church is working to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia and beyond. We are a unique congregation where people from diverse cultural, ethnic, economic and religious…
backgrounds join together to put God's love in action.
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