What Fuels Your Motivation to Live Out the Gospel?

Sometimes everything can seem right on the surface while, deep down, nothing is right at all. We see this, for example, in the famous parable about the prodigal son and his older brother. By every outward appearance, the older brother is doing everything right: He is...

This Resolution Can Reduce Your Stress Next Year

Many people regard New Year’s resolutions with the same disdain they attribute to the fruitcake. I am a proponent of both. For several years now, I have made the same New Year’s resolution, and I ask God to help me to keep it: I will take no bitterness...

Loving the Unlovely

Sermon delivered by Howard Batson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Amarillo, T.X., on August 16 2009. 1 John 2:10-12 Perhaps you’ve seen the photograph. It won a Pulitzer Prize for the photographer, Huynh Cong Ut (Nick). The best-known photograph from the Vietnam...