Deaconess Serve Africa.

01/12/2025

It's all about JESUS!

26/10/2025

15/10/2025

All are invitated to the cross, for anyone struggling with the weight of life, sin, or the heavy, oppressive rules of leaders. Let's find spiritual peace and relief by placing our trust and faith in Jesus, who offers a lighter, easier burden than the one you currently carry.

04/10/2025

Increase our Faith

The gospel is Luke 17:1-10. Temptations are sure to come. The Greek for temptation is skandalon - A “scandal” a trap stick, a snare. The Jews would see the crucifixion of the Messiah as a stumbling block because anyone killed on a cross was cursed. It was scandalous to think that their God was executed as a criminal.

To cause someone to temptation was a great sin. To show the magnitude of this is illustrated with the phrase “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” The millstone mentioned here, is one that was used to grind grain to flower and was so large that it took a donkey to turn it. “Little ones” was either someone young in faith or young in age.

We need to guard the faith of others with forgiveness and a helping hand. We need to exercise special care for the young and the young in faith. Forgiving seven times is unlimited forgiveness. God continues to forgive us without any limits.

This was all quite overwhelming for the disciples, and they ask that Jesus increase their faith. With all the mental, physical, and spiritual darts flying to us with hurricane force, it is good for us to make this request too. Jesus stood ready to fulfill their request just as he does for us. Paul says it well in Ephesians 3:20-21 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

Verses 7-10 are a string of sayings concludes with an illustration only found in Luke’s gospel. The gist is that we owe God our full service and truly can do Him no favors. God does not owe us thanks for our obedience. In Christ, He does not forever punish us for our disobedience but forgives us graciously. When He returns, we will eat and drink in His kingdom as He has served us.

Prayer: Dear Lord, greatly increase our faith so that we take care not to lead anyone astray. Continue to have our faith life be ready to serve you and those around us. Amen.

02/10/2025

The Bible presents us with a crucial issue of Identity when Jesus asked his disciples a million dollar question, "Who do they say I am? And who do you say I am? (Mark 8:27). Rapid changes and newness of being Youth, compounded by the fact that Youths experience lots of struggles during their years of growth prompt them to ask the same questions: Who am I? What do I want? Where am I going? It was a privilege to have a lengthy talk and study of scripture with Nyagowa Lutheran Mixed Secondary School Students. Conclusively, answers to questions of our Identity are to be found in the biblical truth that "we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood...(1Peter 2:9)

26/09/2025

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16

24/09/2025

Submission is a divine godly command (Ephesians 5:21).In submission, a woman honors and affirms a man's headship and helps carry it through according to her God given gifts.
A women's conference at the Confessional Lutheran Church- Malawi Synod explored this topic of Submission both in families and in Church.

18/09/2025

Women conference at St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Nimule, South Sudan.

14/09/2025

Singing to the Glory of God!