Litchfield First Baptist Church

Who wins in the end? When evil looks like it has the upper hand and the name of Jesus gets mocked, Christians need to know how the story finishes. In the final message of our series on the Lamb, Pastor Brent Stille walks through Revelation 21–22, where the Lamb who was slain stands triumphant at the center of a renewed creation. He shows how the Lamb cleanses His people completely and provides for them generously: a lavish home, God dwelling with His people, His glory as their light, worship everywhere, and every trace of the curse gone for good.

Not everything that glitters is gold, and not every voice that talks about God speaks for Him. Podcasts, pulpits, and polished influencers all offer spiritual answers, so how can a believer tell truth from counterfeit? In 1 John 4:1–6, Pastor Brent Stille walks through John’s command to test the spirits and the reason it matters: many false prophets have gone out into the world. He then gives three tests for any spiritual teacher. What do they confess about who Jesus Christ is? Is the life of God in them? Do they hold to the apostles’ teaching?

Am I really saved? If I were, would I still be fighting the same sins? Doubt is one of the enemy’s sharpest weapons, and it works by turning our eyes inward to our failures. In 1 John 3:18–24, Pastor Brent Stille walks through John’s answer for the believer whose heart condemns them: God is greater than our heart, and He knows everything. Doubt fixates on our deficiencies, feeds our spiritual instability, and forgets the simplicity of the gospel. John answers it with the marks of a true child of God: love that acts, a growing desire to obey and please Him, and the Spirit’s ongoing work within.

When sharing your faith feels like standing against a rising tide, fear and even shame can take over. Psalm 68 answers that fear with a King who has already won.

Preaching from Psalm 68:1–18, missions guest Shadrach Nyeko shows why God’s people praise Him as the ideal king, whose presence scatters the wicked, gladdens the righteous, and shelters the fatherless and the widow. He then turns to God as the cosmic king who ascends in triumph and, as Paul shows in Ephesians 4, gives gifts to His church so that we can announce the victory Christ has already secured.

Nobody wakes up one morning a murderer. Hatred usually starts as an irritation we decide to keep. In this message from 1 John 3:11–18, Pastor Brent Stille traces the line between two extremes: the love of Jesus, who laid down His life for us, and the hatred of Cain, who killed his brother. John says that loving fellow believers is evidence we have passed from death to life. He warns that the world will not always love us back, and he calls us to love in deed and in truth, not in words alone. Which way is the pendulum in your heart swinging?

Sin rarely looks dangerous at first. It looks like a warm campfire, and the world keeps inviting us to pull up a chair. In this message from 1 John 3:4–10, Pastor Brent Stille gives six reasons believers should hate sin: it rejects God's righteous standard, devalues the sacrifice of Christ, reveals a heart unwilling to walk with Him, shows allegiance to the enemy, violates the new nature God plants in His children, and erases the difference between His people and the world. John is testing the direction of a life, since no believer reaches sinless perfection here. If you've already felt what sin costs, the Father is waiting to welcome you home.

In this message, Pastor Brent Stille opens 1 John to show us a command to follow (abide in Him) and a truth to cling to (we have a new identity). Open the Scriptures with us to see the glory of being called children of God!

Join us as we open the Word at Litchfield First Baptist Church to discover how we are called to be people who are substitutes because Jesus Christ has been our substitute. Since we have the righteousness of God, we can go and do righteous deeds to the glory of God!

What will your life be remembered for when it is finished? Paul answers that question in two verses of Colossians. In this message on Colossians 1:28-29, Daniel Smitley reveals the message Paul proclaimed, the means he used in warning and teaching with all wisdom, as well as the motive driving Paul's mission of presenting everyone mature in Christ. The labor is real, involving toil and struggle, yet Paul locates the strength for it in Christ working powerfully within him. Ordinary believers are called to the same work, in the same power.

In this final message in his series on the Lamb of God, Pastor Brent Stille walks us through the glory of the worthy Lamb who opens the scroll.