Flood Blantyre Sunday Sermon

This week we are taking a look at the Fruit of the Spirit Faithfulness. Diana shares her journey of faithfulness and provides us with a 3 step journey of how to keep the faith when times get hard.

This week we are looking at the Fruit of the Spirit: Patience. Kaitlyn shares with us that behind patience is actually discernment and shares 3 prayers with us in order to discern well. There is the prayer FOR indifference, the prayer OF indifference, and the prayer for wisdom.

Join us as we kick off our new series where we take a look at the Fruits of the Spirit. This week we heard from one of our leaders, Benjamin Gauss, about how to live a life of love and how to love people who are not the easiest to love.

This week we hear from Pastor Ken from Blantyre Baptist Church about the Parable of the Rich Fool and how we need to let go of our earthly possessions and hold onto Jesus.

This week we hear a very encouraging message from Andee about the Parable of the Lost Sheep. We learn that God loves us especially when we feel lost and all we have to do when we are wandering is reach out. Someone will bring us back home.

This week we hear from Zack Brady as he shares a fresh perspective on the continuation of the Parables of Jesus, we learn specifically from the Parable of the Two Sons that Jesus values inner emotion and raw reaction.

As we are continuing with our new sermon series based on the parables of Jesus, this week we hear from Pastor Humphreys from our sister church Flood Lilongwe. He sheds more light on how Jesus teaches us how Considerate, Generous and rewarding He is. Also how demanding He is from his servants.

This week we are kicking off a new sermon series called Picture This: How the Parables of Jesus Give us Hope. Each week, we will be taking a look at a different Parable and seeing how it's message can bring us hope in these unprecedented times. We have Andee starting us off with the Parable of the Sower and showing us a fresh perspective on this teaching.

This week we learn that when we pray, "give us today our daily bread" we are assuming our dependence on God and recognizing that we can do nothing outside of Him. God provides all that we need, but sometimes what we believe we need, God knows will derail us.

This week we hear from Emma about how to pray "your will be done." We learn that by praying this, we are surrendering our own wants to the Lord and in turn trusting that He is faithful to us always.

This week we are focusing on the phrase "Your Kingdom Come" of the Lord's prayer. Prayer allows us to know ourselves, and to know God, on a more intimate level. When we pray, "Your Kingdom Come" we are submitting ourselves to the will and love of God.

This week we are looking at the second line of the Lord's Prayer: "hallowed by your name." Throughout the Bible, and even today, we know that names are important because they hold meaning. We can "hallow" the name of the Lord by acknowledging His excellence and worth.

This week we are using Jesus's model of how to pray and really zooming in just on the first sentence: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed by your name." This first line of the Lord's prayer can sometimes get overlooked because we have heard it a million times, but when you take the time to think about the implications of God as our Father, it is quite profound.

This week we start a new message series called "Teach Us To Pray" where we will be unpacking different elements of prayer and redefining how it impacts our daily lives. This message teaches us that at it's most basic form, prayer is all about our relationship with our Father.

This week we conclude our Prodigal series by looking at the great cost the Father endured for both of his wayward sons. We also find out the real identity of our true elder brother.

This week we continue our series on the Parable of the Prodigal Son and take a look at what it means to live like an "elder brother." When things don't go our way it is really easy to fall into the trap of jealousy and indignation but God invites us into His loving arms of grace and love despite our bad behavior.

This sermon is the first in a two-part mini series on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, one of the most well known parables in the whole of scripture. We're taking a fresh look at this old story, referring heavily to Tim Keller's book Prodigal God (highly recommended reading!) This week we learn that both the younger (prodigal) and older brother really had the same goals, they just had extremely different methods to achieve that goal.

Full church service from April 19, 2020: Prodigal, Week One.

If Christ did not rise from the dead, Pastor Yami echoes the apostle Paul, then our witness, our faith, and our very lives are meaningless and indeed, we Christians are to be pitied for believing a lie. However! The good news is, HE DID. The truth of our faith and of life itself is that Jesus Christ did die on the cross on Good Friday and rise from the dead on Sunday. If he hadn't, we have permission to live however we want; since he has, we must remember and LIVE THAT WAY. Be encouraged, as Martha was, to proclaim that he is the Christ, son of God, who is coming into the world, and that our whole being hangs on him.

Join us for our Full Online service celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ!

Though "Joy to the World" may traditionally be a Christmas hymn, the words of the song carry great weight for us in our celebration of the coming king on his triumphal entry to Jerusalem as well! Join us as Diana Nkhoma, leader of our connections and outreach teams as well as the Metro Director for YoungLife in Blantyre, reminds us that no matter who we are in the crowd, now is a good time to prepare room for our King.

Join us for the full celebration of Palm Sunday, with worship led by the Flood Blantyre Worship Team and teaching by one of our leaders, Diana Nkhoma.

For the final (and 13th!) week in our 1 Corinthians 13 series, we bring you the whole service with announcements, worship, and the sermon! Here is your lower-data alternative to streaming the service video live from facebook. :) We hope you encounter the love of Christ today.

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have much to think about, as people, as brothers, sisters, wives, mothers, husbands, fathers, colleagues, bosses, teachers, students, as Christians. Join us this week as we take our church service online for the first time with Dr. John Parks giving us an informative overview of the Coronavirus while also keeping it light and making us laugh. Pastor Yami takes up the baton from there and reminds us that in this world we will have trouble, but Christ assures us that he has overcome the world. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

"There is a tension that exists between the reality of the kingdom of God, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the realities of the broken world we live in," Zack says in his introduction to this message. This tension is the already but not yet of the Kingdom, which is ultimately what the Apostle Paul is talking about in this middle section of 1 Corinthians 13. We live in the promise, given spiritual gifts and love to work in the world while we wait for its fulfillment in the return of Jesus. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

"Figuring out where you get your hope will completely inform how you endure," Pastor Yami explains as he opens the 10th week of Relationship Goals. In this sermon, we conclude our examination of v. 7, with Pastor Yami teaching that ultimately placing our hope in anything other than Jesus will lead us to pain and disappointment. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

Coming to us from our our sister church in Lilongwe as we swapped preachers for a weekend, Pastor Humphreys Mkandawire closes out the "descriptions of love" section of 1 Corinthians 13. He begins by calling us to recognize that the way the Apostle Paul speaks of love turns our search for it on its head: it is not for us to ask "Is that person trustworthy? Can I trust YOU?" but instead for us to ask "Am I trustworthy? Can that person trust me?" Christ, and the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13, call us not to look for these qualities of love in others, but ask ourselves if we are offering these qualities to others. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

This week in Relationship Goals, we hear from Zack Brady, who along with being one of our Core Team leaders at Flood Blantyre is on the Young Life staff team in Blantyre ministering specifically to our international high schools. In this sermon, Zack takes us through 1 Corinthians 13:6, "[Love] does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in the truth," and calls us to recognize that this one is not quite as easy as it sounds at first listen. To see fullness of this passage, we visit Genesis, the Gospel of Matthew, and 2 Corinthians, and ultimately are reminded that to rejoice in the truth means to exalt God's truth over all others--even the lies we believe about ourselves. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

In this installment of our Relationship Goals series, Pastor Yami tackles the challenging statement that "[Love] is not irritable or resentful." Our reality is that irritation and resentment are constant parts of human life; the question is not "Are you resentful about anything?" but "What are you resentful about right now?" Pastor Yami challenges us to recognize our bitter spots and resentful feelings as the necessary first step to being able to grow through them and love well even when we are confronted with injustice, betrayal, or pain. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

This week, we continue the 1 Corinthians 13 conversation with more on "Love does not insist on its own way." While last week spoke much to what insisting on our own way in love looks like, this week we examine what allowing God's way to reign looks like instead. Love, in God's way, not insisting on its own way, is affectionate, gives itself away, exalts the other, and, we learn to our shock, obedient. Dive in with us. About the Series: The reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

In this fourth week of our Relationship Goals sermon series, Pastor Yami tackles the next attribute in the 1 Corinthians 13 list: "[love] does not insist on its own way/is not self-seeking." We are challenged that often we are not truly loving, but are individualistic and acting as consumers of love. When we treat love as a commodity, it gets warped from being a godly selfless act into a way of getting our own way. Join us on Sundays at Flood Blantyre at 10am! About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

Pastor Yami takes us into the next phrase of 1 Corinthians 13, where we learn love is not arrogant or RUDE. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

Ian Farrimond takes us through a discussion of patience, kindness, envy, boasting, and pride, and how each of these connect to what it means to truly love. He finishes the sermon by challenging us that to actually live in the way that love demands, would be revolutionary. So, let us be revolutionaries. About the series: the reality of life is there is no life apart from relationships. Your relationships might be with stuff, not people, but your life is relating itself to STUFF. So our heart and our goal in this series is to just be at a place where we ask the hard questions, we get into the space of trying to understand what is love really like. Now when you get into scripture, scripture has a lot of stuff to say about love. So we are are looking at some few amazing things that God has said in his word in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 of what love is."

The first sermon in our new series "Relationship Goals," a deep dive into 1 Corinthians 13. Through this series we are hoping to learn together how to build healthy and better relationships in our day today as we pursue God. In this introductory sermon, Pastor Yami examines three initial statements from the Apostle Paul that end in "....If I have not love, I have nothing." From this passage. he challenges us to recognize how we often determine our or another person's value on how gifted they are--how well they speak, what good they can do, how much they give, what they have surrendered--and brings us back to God's true value: our Love.

In Week 6 of our Highs and Lows series, the Lord has been good and the Israelites have crossed the Jordan on dry ground. Now, this new generation must prepare to enter the Promised Land with a renewal of the covenant and a period of waiting as they heal from fresh circumcision. Pastor Yamikani Kalizang'oma walks us through the importance of Israel bearing the mark of the covenant and challenges us to examine our own feelings about waiting. Can we trust God's goodness no matter what he asks us to do or how long he makes us wait?

In week 5 of our Highs and Lows Series, Ian Farrimond returns to the pulpit to teach us the meaning of that strange line in "Come Thou Fount," "here I raise my ebenezer." The Ebenezer stone was designed to help the Israelites remember what God had done for them and to be ready to speak those memories aloud to the next generation who were not there to see it. What challenge is God inviting you to face? Are you ready to trust that if he is inviting you to go, he will provide a way for you to succeed and afterward raise your own ebenezer?

Week 3 of Highs and Lows! Herein, Pastor Yami preaches on the importance of PREPARATION by way of Joshua's commands to the Israelites as they began to prepare to cross the Jordan River and enter battle for Canaan. The preaching may be rooted in an ancient story, but the wisdom Pastor Yami teaches is completely applicable today. Some highlights include: the need to prepare mentally, spiritually, and physically; the importance of preparing with resources, learning, time, and rest; and how we often forget to allow others time to respond and catch-up with what we have been preparing for.

In Week 2 of our Highs and Lows series, Pastor Yami teaches through the often quoted encouragement: Be Strong and Courageous, reminding us at one point that it's actually not just an encouragement, it's a command!

We launch a new series called Highs and Lows, walking together through the ever varying ups and downs of life guided by the book of Joshua. In this sermon, Pastor Yami introduces us to Joshua and then speaks powerfully on those weird in-between places: Transitions.

Listen and learn with us as Pastor Yami leads us in an exploration of one of Flood Blantyre's most central core values: The invitation to Come as You Are. This sermon was preached at Flood Blantyre's 4th Anniversary celebration and also includes a few special guests from our sister church in Lilongwe: an interview with Aggrey Massi, an elder at Flood Lilongwe, and some worship with Pastor Humphreys.

Our good friend and Young Life Staff member Zack Brady teaches on Colossians 4:2-6, calling us out to a devoted life of prayer.

Our brother and member of the SIM Malawi team Ian Farrimond leads us through Colossians 3:18-4:1, "Instructions for Christian Households."

Pastor Yami preaches from Colossians 3, focusing on verses 1-4 and our union with Christ.

Flood BT receives a visit from the senior pastor of Flood Lilongwe, Pastor Humphreys Mkandawire, to conclude out Family on Mission series with a sermon on living reconciled as people of Christ.