Richmond's First Baptist Church

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, April 15, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "'Jesus himself stood among them,' Luke says, and I want you to pause for a moment and consider what a remarkable thing that is. Not that Jesus was risen -- we knew that already. But that he came and stood among his disciples, and that he did it himself. He didn't send an angel. He didn't send a message. Jesus himself stood among them..."

Justin Pierson: "Faith has always been a huge part of my life. But five years ago I went through a difficult season. I started to develop new ways of thinking about God and scripture. Things didn't seem to line up anymore. Things that used to be black and white were now jumbled up in my brain. For the first time in my life, I had doubts about my faith..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "What do we do, in the Church, with people who have a hard time believing? In a room full of believers, where many are able to believe easily, is there any room for someone who still has some doubts...?"

Candi Brown's sermon to the children from Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, April 1, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "[The gospel writer] Mark knew that life was hard. And he knew that we can't wait always wait until the end of our lives to get a taste of God's glory -- we need it now. And so the risen Christ comes to us in the middle of our own stories..."

Jim Somerville: "Whenever we take communion, we preach Christ crucified. We remember that God was, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, and we see Christ reaching up toward heaven with one hand and reaching down toward earth with the other and bringing us together. We see him reaching out toward others with one hand and reaching out toward us with the other and bringing us together..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, March 25, 2018.