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Confession

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on August 9 2009.  1 John 1: 9-10 Let’s play “Name That Staff Member.”   One of your staff members was sitting in the bathtub as a little boy. His mom entered the bathroom and asked...

The Inevitable Gate

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on July 26 2009. Luke 23: 39-43 Death is something we all try to deny, something we try to put out of our mind – and yet it occupies it all the time. In Scottsdale, Arizona, 800 or so...

Passing The Buck

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on July 19 2009. Luke 23:7 It sat on the president’s desk in the White House office. It was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. Fred M. Canfil, then United States...

Not Grading on the Curve

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on June 14 2009. Luke 18: 9-17. It was the 1980s, and Mike and Marilyn Standefer were directors in the College Department. Sue and Carter Kelly were teachers in there. The lesson was...

Let’s Eat

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Apr. 26 2009. Luke 14: 7-24. Food should be savored and not gulped down.    Perhaps that’s the most hypocritical statement I have ever said from this pulpit, because, as some of...