Operation Rescue

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Apr. 12 2009 Colossians 1:13 I know you’re aware of the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China. But are you aware of a small group of poor Chinese peasant farmers who came to the...

What Not To Wear

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Mar. 22 2009. Luke 12: 35-48. Go to Discovery.com and you can apply to be on reality TV. You can be a part of the show “What Not To Wear.” They travel – Dallas, Atlanta, Denver,...

That’s for the Birds

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Mar. 15 2009. Luke 12:22-34 What keeps you up at night? What gnaws away at your soul? What forces you to toss and turn like a fish flopping on the river bank, trying to make it...

Busy is Good; Busy is Bad

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Mar. 8 2009. Luke 10:25-42. I don’t think it’s any mistake that these two stories are side by side– two stories that carry completely different messages. As these two stories rub...

Great to God

Sermon delivered by Howard Baston, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on Mar. 1 2009. Luke 9: 46-48 How do you measure a church’s success? What really counts when it comes to being a church?   Some would say, “That’s simple pastor. You look at the...