Month: July 2018

THE FOOD CALLED JESUS: Becoming Living Loaves as Global Hunger Rises.

“Unless you eat of the Son of Man drink his blood, you have no life in you” Let us start with this question, who is this Jesus? Bread when we’re hungry. Who is this Jesus? Water when we’re thirsty. Who is this Jesus? Jesus heals, Jesus speaks, and Jesus feeds. It a fact that hunger is a universal experience, hence human body need food and water to survive. Food is very important in every culture. Each culture has its own favourite dish. Without proper nutrition, our body cannot survive. When we eat a balanced diet, our body obtains the fuel and...

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MULTITUDE (THE POOR AND THE RICH) IN THE DESERT: A Generation of Sheep without a Shepherd.

Like sheep, we have all gone astray. We have turned each to our own way – Is 53:6. The Bible is God’s prescription for the health of our soul and a window through which we catch a glimpse of the heart of Jesus. The Gospel of Mark portrays Jesus Christ, the Servant of God. John, whose surname was Mark, the writer of the Gospel of Mark tells clearly certain facts about Jesus, His deeds more especially than His words. Mark shows what Jesus accomplished during His brief ministry on this earth, how His coming is still changing the world....

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Legacy of Mandela @100: Overcoming Man-made Poverty, Slavery and Apartheid

Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings – Nelson Mandela In the year that South Africa was seriously hit by a deadly flu with high death toll, Nelson Mandela was born. Born in 1918, Mandela not only lived through the deadly flu and the Apartheid regime in South Africa, he lived through World War II.  The Great Depression.  The Korean War.  Vietnam.  The Gulf War. The War in Iraq and in many part of Africa, including the Nigerian civil war. Mandela was 43 when the Berlin...

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Evangelism in a World with Spirituality of Herod.

We are in such a time in a world when many love good debate and ‘preaching, if it keep far away from their beloved sin.’ We are in a world with spirituality and folly of Herod where the Gospel and evangelism is under direct and indirect oppositions and redefinition. It is a world with spirituality that takes what is indecent to be decent and what is unlawful to be lawful just as Herod himself sent men who arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her....

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THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF ITINERANT MINISTRY: Wesley’s ‘Sons (and Daughters) in the Gospel.’

The Gospel reading from Mark 6:1-13 offers us a clue to what happens when the Gospel become counter-cultural. The Gospel points us to what happens when the Word of God is spoken unreservedly and undiluted to our culture, our ideological secularism. The rejection of Jesus in his hometown reveals the picture and the trait of the people of Nazareth in each of us and our communities. The Gospel will always be opposed especially in a world that is gone wrong, ‘a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they...

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