Growing Pains

Sermon delivered by Howard Batson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 25, 2009. Luke 7:18-29; 9:9 His clothes were made of animal skins. As one author put it, his walls were the mountains and his ceiling, the stars. You remember John the...

‘Happiness Is …’

Call me naive, but I was always taught that the captain goes down with the ship, meaning that the guy who is steering the ship joins his future with the ship. I’m not going to dabble in politics today. I am going, however, to boldly preach about greed, social...

‘Feeding the 5,000’

Rev. Alan Kimber was at one time the pastor of Westfall United Methodist Church in Durban, South Africa. He said that at the time there were two classrooms in the township, with 500 kids going to school in two sessions, 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00-4:00 p.m. The...