Litchfield First Baptist Church

This Sunday, Pastor Brent Stille began a new series in 1 John. Join us for this introductory sermon that orients us to the whole book as we prepare for the journey of understanding John's point that we can know that we are in Christ!

Mark 2:1–12 shows four friends tearing through a roof to carry a paralyzed man to Jesus, and what Jesus does next surprises everyone in the room. Instead of healing the man's legs first, he forgives his sins, and that single sentence proves who Jesus really is. This expository sermon on the healing of the paralytic walks through Jesus' authority to forgive, the scribes who called it blasph...

How does God expect parents to raise their kids? Join us as we explore Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6 to see how we can raise children who love the Lord their God!

In this message, Pastor Brent Stille opens Scripture to paint a picture of what God expects of men in marriage. Listen along as we learn about God's plan.

In this message, Pastor Brent Stille provides an overview of what it means to "act like men" by examining Adam, Joshua, Ezekiel, and Jesus. Listen along to learn what God expects of men!

Hurt finds all of us eventually. What we do with it is what makes the difference. Pastor Brent Stille opens Hebrews 12 to show what unresolved resentment does to a person, and how God's grace offers a way out. In this message: What bitterness is, and the two roots it grows from The damage it does physically, spiritually, and to those around us The shift from pursuing revenge to pursuing peace...

In this message from Hebrews 12:14–16, Pastor Brent opens a two-part series on the blight of bitterness: where the root grows, why it spreads, and how the grace of God meets us before the harvest. You'll hear the diagnosis behind the warning, the two soils (lust and loss) that almost always grow it, and the truth that none of us is past the temptation.

Join us as we explore the concept of being ransomed from our sin! Pastor Stille explains this passage with the following outline: What did God ransom us from? What did God ransom us with? By whom did God ransom us? For what cause did God ransom us?

When everything you stand for feels like it's being torn down, why keep showing up? Why not just step back, soften your convictions, and quit? In Psalm 11, David faces that exact temptation. Saul is hunting him, the wicked have arrows notched in the dark, and his closest friends are telling him to flee to the mountains. The voice in his ear sounds reasonable: the foundations are destroyed, wha...

How do you actually pray for the people in your life who don't know Christ? In this message from our prayer series, Pastor Brent Stille walks through a simple but potent biblical pattern drawn from Paul's letters: praying for open doors of opportunity, open mouths to speak with boldness, and open hearts that can finally hear the gospel as good news. Rooted in Romans 10, Colossians 4, Ephes...

Drawing on Jesus' prayer for his disciples, his spiritual children, Pastor Stille encourages us to pray for our own children and grandchildren with the same priorities.

What does it look like to express thankfulness in prayer? In this message, Pastor Brent Stille opens to Philippians 4 and encourages us not to fear anything, to pray about everything, and to give thanks in all things.

How do we ask God to work on our behalf? We prioritize our relationship with Him, we present our needs and desires, and we wait for His answer. Join us as Pastor Brent Stille walks us through John 15:7 to help us grow our prayer lives!

Easter declares that Jesus has risen from the dead. What does that entail? What difference does it make? Pastor Stille answers those questions and more as he leads us to cherish the beauty of Easter!

The women who accompanied Jesus were the ones who went to anoint his body further on Sunday morning. Expecting to need to roll the stone away, they had some concerns, but what they found sent them on an emotional rollercoaster that ended with joy. Listen as Pastor Brent Stille preaches from Matthew 28:1-10

Nietzsche declared God dead and called it freedom. Matthew 27 shows us that God actually did die, on a Roman cross, and the result was nothing like Nietzsche imagined. Creation went dark. The earth shook. A sixty-foot curtain was ripped from top to bottom. And a Roman soldier responsible for the execution fell to his knees in worship. This Good Friday message walks through Matthew 27:45–54 and ask...

Praise is one of the hardest parts of prayer, not because God demands flattery, but because we do not know him well enough to say something specific. Psalm 100 shows us that honoring God in prayer begins with humility (he is God, and we are not), enters with reverence (we are approaching the throne room of the universe), and speaks to who he actually is: good, loving, and faithful. Pastor Brent St...

The thing you are most proud of spiritually might be the thing keeping you from seeing Jesus clearly. Romans 3 says that boasting in self-righteousness has been escorted out of the building. No exceptions. Pastor Daniel Steeves walks through Paul's argument that the gospel strips every sinner of self-righteousness and replaces it with something infinitely better: the perfect righteousness of C...

What does the Bible mean when it calls Jesus “the Lamb of God”? In this communion message from Acts 8:26–40 , Philip encounters the Ethiopian eunuch reading Isaiah 53, a prophecy describing a lamb led to the slaughter. Beginning with that passage, Philip explains how the Scriptures point to Jesus Christ and His saving work .

What does it mean for the love of God to abide in a person? Listen as Pastor Jeremy Mason (from Countryside Bible Church) preaches the Word!

What does it really mean to confess our sins to God? In this message from our series on prayer, we take a deep look at one of the most powerful prayers in the Bible: Psalm 51. King David knew the weight of guilt. After devastating moral failure, he turned to God with raw honesty, and what he prayed teaches us everything we need to know about biblical confession. We walk through 17 verses of Psalm...

Part of the PRAYER sermon series, More Obstacles to Prayer examines key biblical warnings that shape a healthy prayer life. Pastor Stille highlights how unconfessed sin, relational discord, casual devotion, spiritual discouragement, and isolation can hinder communion with God. Through careful exposition and practical application, listeners are invited to remove these obstacles and approach God’s t...

Join us as Pastor Brent Stille walks us through several obstacles to prayer by looking at the prayer life of Jesus Christ!

What does it mean to forsake God? This expository sermon on Hosea 1:1–2:1 unpacks Hosea’s commanded marriage as a living parable of covenant unfaithfulness, God’s righteous discipline, and His astonishing promise of restoration. Discover how Israel’s story exposes the seriousness of sin, how God’s mercy triumphs through judgment, and how the gospel of Jesus Christ widens God’s family to include al...

Follow along as Pastor Stille reminds us of the big-ness of God, the small-ness of man, and the immeasurable privilege of being invited to touch the heart of God through prayer!