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?