Kate Mkandawire – Flood Church Malawi: Recent Episodes
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When we invite Jesus as Lord in our lives we are inviting him to influence not only one part of our life but every single part of our lives. True transformation is when we continue to say yes to Jesus being Lord in every area of our lives.
Jesus needs to have a say in our lives. We don’t get to choose which parts of our lives he has a say in and which parts he can’t. Saying yes to Jesus is us being willing to let Jesus SHOW us what matters to him.
However, we need to go deeper than just having Jesus show us what matters to him. We also need to give Jesus permission to DECIDE what’s important in our lives. Letting Jesus decide what’s important in our lives is giving him total authority by intentionally choosing to surrender to him because we know what he has for us is better than what we have for ourselves. Will you let Jesus have a say or are you going to silence his voice and choose only what you prefer?
SERIES BOTTOM LINE: WHAT WE BEHOLD THE MOST FORMS US THE MOST
Our encounter with Jesus forms everything in our Christian walk. Our walk with the lord starts with an encounter with Jesus but somehow on the way we do forget to keep on going back at the feet of Jesus and continue listening and learning from him.
May Jesus be the one we are captivated by so that we are continuously being formed and changed by him.It is at the feet of Jesus that our identity is affirmed It is at the feet of Jesus that his love for us is affirmed It is at the feet of Jesus that we find hope and the healing that we need.In this month of January where we are fasting and praying as a church we hope we can be compelled to be at the feet of Jesus more so we can listen and learn from him.
SERIES NAME: OSADANDAULA
BOTTOM LINE: EXPERIENCING GOD’S PEACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CHAOS SERIES CONCEPT
During this time a lot of people in our community are going through very rough times. This season people need to be reminded of God’s truth that even though we are in the chaos we are not abandoned. The chaos is not a representation of God’s absence; God is present even in the chaos. And because we have Jesus our peace is guaranteed. We hope that in this new series people will pay more attention to the things that rob their peace and hang on to the things that build their peace in Christ.
The series name is Osadandaula which is a Chichewa word for “don’t worry”. The nuance in the word is that “even when things are not ok but you will be ok so receive the comfort that you need in this season.”
In this sermon Kate and Humphreys are talking about how you can respond as a Christian when you come face to face with an injustice.
You can be the “you” that you want to be or you can be the “you” that God wants you to be. In this sermon, Kate Mkandawire talks about what it means to be “yourself”
We all have things in our lives that we need to sort out. We all have things in our lives that we need to do better. We all have parts of our lives that need our attention. God has been beckoning us for a while now to change and grow. All growth that happens in our lives is spiritual growth.
Like the story of Nehemiah we all have places in our lives that are in ruins. Often the ruins in our lives are places that we neglect or abandon. They can be relationships that need reworking, habits that we need to leave behind or habits we need to pick up. They can be a forgiving word we need to give, or a phone call we need to make to make amends.
When an area of your life is in ruins you can either continue to neglect it or you can do something about it. From the story of Nehemiah we see that our desire to see parts of us grow and become better is actually God’s desire too. God desires to build our lives for His glory.
In this sermon Kate Mkandawire speaks from Nehemiah 3:1-32 about how Nehemiah had everyone in Jerusalem contribute to the work of rebuilding the wall.
As a church community we can be tempted to only function as a church family; effectively in touch with each other but somewhat out of touch with the world all around us. We can easily become only insider focused and lose the focus on the outside.
Believers are to be a community of God that’s on the move. We are to be intentional in how we live our lives so as to be a witnessing community to the world around us. God called us as a community to spread the good news of Jesus. Jesus left a movement to be caught by men and women who are willing to put everything on the line in order to proclaim him as Lord.
God wants believers to be a community of Jesus which is full of love in both deed and word, and invites those on the outside with respect and gentleness. This is what it looks like to live incarnationally.
In this sermon Kate Mkandawire speaks from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 about being intentional in the establishment of relationships with those around us because it is better to live dependent and connected to our community than to live independently disconnected.
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This series is a response to the loss, grief, suicide and mental illness that many people in Lilongwe are experiencing. Many of these things are not being talked about and people are living through hard situations without healthy and effective ways of communicating their emotions.
We can either choose to BE INFLUENCED by our emotions or we can choose to INFLUENCE our emotions. In other words you can choose to let your emotions lead you or you can lead your emotions. However, there are times when people have no will, desire or power to make themselves feel differently than what they are feeling in the moment. This is when we have to look up to Jesus the author and finisher of faith to help us respond to him even when we feel negative emotions. Emotions are a gift from God and feelings are meant to be felt. If we lead our emotions well they can give us an opportunity to enjoy life and know more about God or ourselves.
In this sermon Kate Mkandawire and Brittany Fellows talk from the story of Ruth about how we can obey God in sadness, by having hope of His redemption.
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In this series we are looking how Jesus challenges us to live differently. Jesus calls to love Him and love others in a radical way. We will live as those who have been transformed, because we have been transformed by Him. Transformed people live transformed lives. However, living transformed lives is done in isolation and it is not easy. It means turning away from our idols and seeking him to help us live counter culturally.
In this sermon, Pastor Humphreys and his wife Kate talk about Matthew 18:21-35 speak about forgiving. What does it mean? How much should we forgive? How can we forgive?
Matthew 18:21-35 The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant 21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[g]
23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accountswith his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold[h] was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.[i] He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.
29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’
30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”
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In the series we are looking how Jesus challenges us to live differently. Jesus calls to love Him and love others in a radical way. We will live as those who have been transformed, because we have been transformed by Him. Transformed people live transformed lives. However, living transformed lives is done in isolation and it is not easy. It means turning away from our idols and seeking him to help us live counter culturally.
In this sermon, Kate Mkandawire talks about Matthew 16:24-28, the call Jesus places on our lives to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him. This is how we fully commit to Jesus.
“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Matthew 16:24-28 NIV
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In this sermon Pastor Kate Mkandawire looks at 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 to explore how Jesus invites us to focus on eternity through our suffering.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
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