Month: August 2018

SLAVE TRADE @ 500: A Legacy of Poverty, Racism, Inequality and Elite Wealth across four continents.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Aug 21, 2018 | Events, General and Ecumenism, Ministry and Prayer, Nations |

Slavery, a cruel and inhumane business existed in every country, in every culture, and every race. Slavery as a shame to be borne by all races and all of mankind griefs God. The truth is that slavery has nothing to do with ethnics but everything to do with the evil within humanity. Using the words of the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, slavery as an offence to human dignity and freedom “… is an offence against the created order of equality, an offence against the dignity of humans as called to share in some measure in God’s...

THE SCANDAL OF JESUS’ WORDS: Missional Menu that Saves, Heals, and Unites.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Aug 19, 2018 | General and Ecumenism, Ministry and Prayer, Missions and Evangelism, Nations |

I am the living bread God sent from down from heaven. If someone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread I will give is my flesh. I give it so the world might really live! … If you don’t eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you’re not really alive. – Jn 6:51, 53 Jesus’ act of feeding is the ultimate act of his care, truthfulness, and affection for you and me in this earthly life and in eternal life. In John chapter 6, Jesus challenged us to consider the bread we eat,...