Richmond's First Baptist Church

Karen & Rob Brown: "Do you remember back when we were perfect parents? We knew everything! We made no mistakes! When did that stop? Exactly three years, three months, and three days ago..."

Dr. Jim Somerville's "Pastor's Class" from Sunday, March 4, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "Over the course of time wisdom accumulated. At some point wisdom began to shift from survival to success, because it wasn't only life that people wanted. It was the *good* life..."

Dr. Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, March 4, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "I have a hard time with tonight's lesson: the story from Genesis 22, when Abraham takes his son Isaac up on the mountain to offer him as a sacrifice..."

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

Jim Somerville: "Rhetoric means 'doing things with words.' A ghost story is meant to scare you; a love story is meant to make you swoon; a motivational speech is meant to move you to action; a commercial is meant to make you buy something. When you start paying attention you begin to see that rhetoric is all around you..."

Dr. Somerville's sermon to the children from Sunday, February 25, 2018.

Jim Somerville: "Jesus taught us to think of God as a loving parent. It is not hard for me to imagine loving parents making sacrifices for the sake of their children. What is hard is for me to imagine loving parents sacrificing their children..."

Jacque Green: "Faith sees dimly, not face to face. God will reveal himself to us through the person of Jesus Christ, and as he does, we're going to have questions. We'll have questions when personal crisis thrusts its way into our lives with great force. When these situations land our doorsteps, we find ourselves asking, 'What the world?'..."