Warm Baptist preaching with resurrection at the center.
First Baptist Church Amarillo is a sermon feed built around Scripture, church seasons, and practical Christian formation. Recent messages move through 1 Peter, Acts, Mark, Matthew, and Jonah with patient exposition, plainspoken stories, and repeated turns toward the heart.
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First Baptist Church Amarillo presents a large archive of biblical sermons from a Baptist congregation. The format is simple and pulpit-centered. Recent messages open Bibles to 1 Peter, Acts, Mark, Matthew, and Jonah, then walk slowly through the text until its claim on ordinary life becomes hard to avoid. The preaching is built around Scripture read aloud, explained in context, and pressed into conscience. A sermon on 1 Peter frames Christian hope through resurrection language and a small grocery-store joke about chocolate syrup and mortality. A midweek message from Acts treats waiting not as delay, but as preparation for power the disciples do not yet possess. The Holy Week episodes move from Good Friday devastation to Easter light, pausing over the often-skipped silence of Saturday. Matthew 26 becomes a meditation on the worth of Jesus through the image of a child riding a bike in the eye of a hurricane. Matthew 5 brings repeated attention to the difference between rule-keeping and the deeper kingdom life Jesus describes. Words matter. Love stretches past limits. Promises reveal the condition of the heart. Palm Sunday is handled as a correction to the desire for a Jesus who merely champions personal causes. Jonah becomes comic and grave at once, moving from an empty fish and an empty beach toward the empty tomb. The sermons use household moments, weather, children, church music, students, and seasonal worship as bridges into theology. They can be direct. They can also be warm. The pacing gives room for repetition, rhetorical questions, and careful turns from biblical scene to personal application. First Baptist Church Amarillo will suit listeners who want church preaching with clear Christian convictions, pastoral humor, and a recurring emphasis on resurrection hope, honest speech, patient obedience, and the stubborn mercy of God.
Made for: Best for listeners seeking Christian sermons grounded in Scripture, church seasons, and practical discipleship. It especially fits those who appreciate measured exposition with everyday stories and a pastoral tone.
What sets it apart: The feed pairs Baptist preaching with vivid, ordinary-life illustrations: grocery aisles, lost teeth, hurricanes, student service, and Holy Week silence. Its strongest thread is the way grave subjects keep bending back toward hope.
Podcast by First Baptist Amarillo
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close biblical reading meets vivid everyday application in sermons concerned with character, humility, resurrection hope, and the identity of Jesus.
First Baptist Church Amarillo keeps the Bible open and the congregation within earshot. These sermon recordings move passage by passage through Matthew, Mark, and Jonah, pairing close textual attention with direct questions about speech, desire, humility, suffering, and love of…
Express-lane math meets Matthew 5, and your favorite loophole may start looking less convincing.
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Jonah's bottom becomes a plainspoken meditation on salvation, resurrection, and God's power over death.
This Jonah sermon keeps returning to Jonah 2, where distress turns into prayer and the empty fish, empty beach, and empty tomb open the door to a larger hope.
Matthew 5:33 shapes a grounded sermon on promises, integrity, and the force of a plain yes.
Matthew 5:33 anchors a sermon about the moral weight carried by ordinary promises. The message moves from the fine print of terms and service agreements to Jesus' warning against oath-taking, pressing the idea that trustworthy speech begins with a truthful heart.
Mark 8:27-38 becomes a steady call to decide who Jesus is.
The sermon treats Mark 8:27-38 as the hinge of the Gospel, where earlier scenes keep pressing toward the same question: who is Jesus? It draws on the demons who know his title, the people in Nazareth who cannot fit the carpenter to his authority, and the deaf man in Mark 7, so…
A grocery-store loophole opens into a searching sermon on lust, repentance, and the heart behind conduct.
Matthew 5:27 becomes a case against moral bookkeeping here, beginning with a grocery-store express lane where bananas, yogurt, soup, and muffin ingredients get creatively counted as single items.
A Mark 7 sermon turns a harsh saying about dogs into a reflection on humility, mercy, and grace.
A difficult moment in Mark 7 gives this single-episode review its center: Jesus goes to the region of Tyre, a Syrophoenician woman pleads for her daughter, and his words about children, bread, and dogs land hard.
A Sea of Galilee storm becomes a searching question about faith when fear fills the boat.
A Sea of Galilee crossing becomes a focused meditation on faith, fear, and the divine power present in Jesus. The sermon spends time with Jesus asleep in a first-century fishing boat, using the Jesus boat found during a 1986 drought to make the scene feel concrete, then traces a…
A Matthew 5 sermon frames enemy-love as courageous generosity at Warwick Station.
Matthew 5 is presented as a test of kingdom life, with Jesus pressing past familiar rules into the harder territory of love. The sermon works through the final two antitheses, beginning at verse 38, and gives enemy-love a concrete shape through the coat-and-shirt image and the…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This sermon continues a series on Mark chapter 5, focusing on verses 11-20 to explore how Jesus brings restoration and grace beyond individual encounters, using the imagery of pigs and a wider community context.
This sermon from First Baptist Church Amarillo explores Jesus's teachings in Matthew 5:38-48 on loving enemies and rejecting retaliation.
This sermon from First Baptist Church Amarillo examines two storm narratives from Mark's Gospel: Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4 and walking on water in Mark 6.
A 2005 Turkey incident saw 1,500 sheep follow one animal over a ravine while their shepherds ate breakfast.
The sermon opens with Peter Gomes's account of a Harvard student who berated her parents for giving her no religious formation, saying she didn't know "what I was rebelling against." The pastor reads parents' lists of life lessons, including "36 things I want my daughter to always remember" and "25 things I want my sons to know," before pointing to Proverbs as the codified version written by Solomon.
A preacher introduces a sermon on hope from 1 Peter 1:3-5 by sharing a humorous grocery store anecdote about life and resurrection.
This episode explores Acts chapter 1, focusing on how Jesus instructed the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit's power after the resurrection.
This sermon explores the often-overlooked day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, reflecting on the silence and waiting of that Saturday in the context of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
The speaker introduces a sermon on Matthew 26 about Jesus' worth, using a personal childhood story of experiencing the eye of a hurricane as a metaphor.
This sermon explores Jesus' teachings on love and kingdom living through the antitheses in Matthew chapter 5, focusing on moving beyond rules to the heart of His message.
This sermon discusses how Jesus defies human expectations by following God's agenda rather than championing personal causes, using the Palm Sunday story from the Gospel of Mark as a key example.
Jonah takes the center again.
First Baptist Church Amarillo's March 22, 2026 sermon on Matthew 5:33-37 ties "words matter" to the habit of tapping "agree" on terms like PayPal, Amazon, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook.
The sermon opens with thanks.
Matthew 5:27 sets the scene.
First Baptist Church Amarillo’s March 15, 2026 sermon on Mark 7 centers on Jesus in Tyre, a Syrophoenician woman, and the line "the children's bread" and "the dogs." The preacher says he has preached the passage only once in 30 years and uses Josephus, Romans 1:16, and Acts 13 to frame the phrase "to the Jew first." The woman’s request for "crumbs of grace" becomes the main example of coming to God without merit, standing, or expectation.
This episode explores the biblical story from Matthew chapter 9 about two blind men who call out to Jesus as the Son of David during the Advent season.
This sermon explores the theme of envy through biblical examples like Saul and David, examining how competition and others' success can lead to destructive behavior.
This episode explores the biblical concept of 'The Son of Man' from Daniel 7, using a leadership story from Simon Sinek about how honor belongs to titles rather than individuals.