Phillips Chapel Free Will Baptist Church

Phillips Chapel Free Will Baptist Church We exist to glorify God by making, maturing and mobilizing disciples to worship and serve in NWA.

06/02/2026

Release responsibility for our concerns to Christ. Through "benevolent detachment," we deliver to Him what we cannot carry—our anxieties, our circumstances, our loved ones, our future. This isn't passivity; it's active trust in the One who actually controls outcomes. We weren't designed to bear the weight of the world, but Christ can and does bear our burdens because He loves us.

05/31/2026

So far in our study through 1 Peter, we have sought to understand our suffering. Scripture has provided us with the necessary perspective so we can see it and understand it according to God’s sovereign purpose. We close out this first letter with some essential actions that will ensure a believer’s endurance during the fiery trial. They are God-prescribed behaviors, and thus they are one of His chosen means to keep us. They require effort on our part, and consequently this is how we bear responsibility for our own endurance.

We are going to break them in two parts. Join us today as we begin to discuss the Essentials for Endurance from 1 Peter 5:5 - 7.

05/26/2026

Leadership in God's kingdom looks radically different from worldly power structures. True shepherds don't dominate or serve for personal gain—they lead by example, humbly serving as fellow sheep called to watch over the flock.

05/25/2026

Fiery trials will come. It is only a matter of when. We know that by now.

Believers, simply because they surrender to Jesus as Lord, will know persecution in its various forms. While suffering, they must continue to trust God Who is always active and always present. They cannot quit doing the things that have drawn the enemy’s fire (4:12 - 19).

As the members suffer, the welfare of the congregation is paramount. The need is urgent. And with that urgent need, there is a critical demand for care and a compelling call for personnel to provide that care. Without it, the congregation becomes easy prey and may not endure.

Join us today as we discuss Congregational Welfare and the leaders who provide for it from 1 Peter 5:1 - 4.

05/19/2026

Contentment in monotony reveals spiritual maturity. Rather than constantly seeking the next new experience, we should find deep joy in the repeated spiritual disciplines—prayer, Scripture reading, faithful church attendance, and daily vocational duties. Like a child who never tires of their favorite story, we should never grow weary of encountering Christ. It's in the faithful repetition of ordinary obedience that true sanctification happens.

05/17/2026

Have you ever considered humanity’s pursuit of authority? We all want to call the shots in our lives and at times in the lives of others. We believe that when we are in charge everything will be great. From a young age, all of us deal with the same temptation our parents faced in the Garden of Eden: “Are you going to be your own ‘god’? You may be better off if you make the rules!" What is the answer to this age old lie? Today we will look at our Lord's words in Matthew 18:1-4 for that answer.

05/12/2026

You cannot lead anyone to love what you don't love yourself. If wholehearted devotion to Christ is not our priority, it will become irrelevant to our children. Faithfulness to God's covenant and obedience to His commands flow naturally from genuine love. We must model what we want to see reproduced.

05/10/2026

Since it is Mother's Day, we are going to take a break from our study in First Peter to talk about parenting. That said, I confess my approach with my own children, and therefore I am assuming that it may be yours too, has been a plug-and-play kind of formula. Education, dating, and discipleship are drills we teach our kids by rote. To borrow a metaphor from Jesus, we focus on the outside of the cup, but rarely notice the inside. So, they grow up in church, but not in Christ.

To quote Douglas Wilson in Covenant Household, “…our task as parents is not our kids to conform to the standard: our job is to get them to love the standard.” (Covenant Household, pg. 106). I’d like to bring that truth to bear at home this Mother’s Day from 1 Corinthians 13:1 - 3 & Deuteronomy 6:4 - 9.

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Springdale, AR
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