Month: June 2018

ARCHBISHOP AYO LADIGBOLU @ 80:  A PRINCE AND A MUSLIM EVANGELIST TO A METHODIST ARCHBISHOP.

ARCHBISHOP AYO LADIGBOLU @ 80:  A PRINCE AND A MUSLIM EVANGELIST TO A METHODIST ARCHBISHOP.

Posted by | Jun 27, 2018 | , , , |

Papa Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu, the retired Methodist archbishop of Ilesa and Ibadan is a father to me. As the Chairman of the Editorial Board, Literature Department, Methodist Church Nigeria and while he was still serving as the bishop of Ifaki and Ibadan, Papa Ladigbolu between 1993-2000 mentored me as the Conference Editor, and Editor of the Methodist News. Papa adopted me as a son and supported me during my training as a minister at Methodist Theological Institute, Sagamu while I was still working as the Conference Editor at Wesley House, Marina, Lagos. It was a great pleasure to go...

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JONAH – MEANS OF REVIVAL FOR OBEDIENT CHURCH

JONAH – MEANS OF REVIVAL FOR OBEDIENT CHURCH

Posted by | Jun 26, 2018 | , , , |

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here (Luke 11:32). The story and one-sentence sermon of Jonah, the greatest revival in history not only provides lesson for the reluctant church, it also raises hope and joy as means and template of revival for obedient church today. God works in a mysterious way, a reluctant church through genuine repentance could become a joyful, health-full and growth-full Assembly of God’s people. Just as the death of Jonah could be...

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JONAH – LESSON TO THE RELUCTANT CHURCH

JONAH – LESSON TO THE RELUCTANT CHURCH

Posted by | Jun 24, 2018 | , |

“Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city …?” The book of Jonah is about a prophet, a man of God, and a servant of God provides some missional lessons to the church today. The missional responsibilities of the church as salt and light to the world resonates with Jonah’s response to God’s message that God gave him to convey. The book of 2 King 2 introduced the man Jonah, the son of Amittai to us (v 25). Jonah means a dove; sent to convey a message from the God of Israel to the Ninevites, who were Assyrians. Amittai in...

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John Wesley at 315: Hope for ‘Endangered’ Church

John Wesley at 315: Hope for ‘Endangered’ Church

Posted by | Jun 18, 2018 | , , , |

John Wesley, not just as a figure of history or simply for information concerning a past age provides an inspiration in such a time when declining church membership is taking its toll on the physical state of houses of worship in many nations. Wesley’s life, the life that began 315 years ago in the fenland of Epworth and shaped by the symbol of fire is a missional and dynamic testimony; it prompts the prayer, ‘Lord, do it again.’ We are now in a situation when many churches are now trying to preserve their historic buildings. Beyond the endangered World...

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FATHERING, A SPIRITUAL COVENANT: Plant seeds, pull weeds.

FATHERING, A SPIRITUAL COVENANT: Plant seeds, pull weeds.

Posted by | Jun 17, 2018 | |

Wishing all fathers and families a renewing and joyous Father’s Day. The real and spiritual essence of Father’s Day celebration calls us to the truth about God, marriage, family and the human person. The Hebrew word for father, ‘ad,’ is derived from Hebrew baby sounds (‘abab,’ ‘Papa,’). This background with reference to the role of the father, as revealed in the Old Testament and New Testament is inextricable from the understanding of salvation and God’s grace (Ps 89:26; Is 63:13; Prov 3:12, Eph 6:1-4). Father’s Day celebration is another opportunity to all men to take fathering seriously and make...

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