Month: December 2018

Who was lost, Jesus or his Parents?: Hope for the lost world and church in the New Year.

Who was lost, Jesus or his Parents?: Hope for the lost world and church in the New Year.

Posted by | Dec 31, 2018 | , , , |

We give all the glory to God for the first Sunday after Christmas and the last Sunday in the year 2018. The question is, after Christmas, what follows in relation to the sense of our expectation? The New Year summons us to anticipate and find a new encounter with Jesus, the source of our hope, peace, joy and love. After Christmas, we must not make the mistake made by Joseph and Mary, who after the festival of the Passover, ‘headed home, down that well worn road to the Jordan valley,’ while Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. When Christmas become...

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PRESIDENT SHAGARI: Beyond a ‘figurehead’: A Conciliator with Contentment.

PRESIDENT SHAGARI: Beyond a ‘figurehead’: A Conciliator with Contentment.

Posted by | Dec 30, 2018 | , |

The president has the whole nation as his constituency, and he should be above any petty differences between the various sections of the community – President Shehu Shagari The death of President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari the first civilian leader of Nigeria on December 28th, 2018 at Abuja put an end to ‘a conciliator who operated above the daily joust of Nigeria’s politics.’ Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, a devout Sunni Muslim and the fifth child of Aliyu and Mariamu Shagari was born on Feb. 25, 1925, in a thatch-roofed house built of sunbaked clay in the village of Shagari....

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DIRE-GOKE ARIMORO @ 60: FIRST STUDENT TO BAG FIRST CLASS HONOUR IN HISTORY, ADEYEMI COLLEGE.

DIRE-GOKE ARIMORO @ 60: FIRST STUDENT TO BAG FIRST CLASS HONOUR IN HISTORY, ADEYEMI COLLEGE.

Posted by | Dec 26, 2018 | , |

The testimony of Mr Dire-Goke Arimoro, using the word of William Arthur Ward is about adversity that causes some men to break; others to break records.  Born at Osu sixty years ago to the family of Oba Moses Olanipekun Arimoro and Mrs Abigail Olomitutu Arimoro both of blessed memory, for Uncle Dire, hope in God is his central emotion and hard work is his mantra. For his elementary and secondary education, Uncle Dire attended Local Authority School, Opajingan, Methodist Primary School, Oke Omi and Atakunmosa High School, all in Osu, Osun State, Nigeria. Dire-Goke Arimoro had a year course...

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Christmas in a world of little Caesars.

Christmas in a world of little Caesars.

Posted by | Dec 26, 2018 | , , , , |

The world and the church biggest problem is sin, hence our biggest need is salvation. A renewing Advent therefore invites us to consider the intimate details of God’s love for the world. In our Gospel reading from Luke 2, the life and role of Caesar Augustus reveals to us the futility of living oneself rather than God. When we appropriate the Bible to our context, it becomes more revealing and redeeming. The Gospel according to Luke reveal more to us about Caesar August in each of us and especially in our leadership self centredness. The reflection is that ‘we...

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RECOVERY OF THEOLOGY

RECOVERY OF THEOLOGY

Posted by | Dec 24, 2018 | , , , |

 ‘True theology is practical….speculative theology belongs to the devil in hell,’ – Luther. There is the need to recover the New Testament vision of the Church and Christianity, hence a theology of the people, for the people and by the people in relationship with God. Theology is not just a clerical or academic discipline. Theology is our lifestyle in and with God. Theology is the basis of faith-filled action and life that helps to gain the truth of God, knowing God and relating rightly to the world rather than academic theology abstracted from life (John 7:17). In Hebrew, to ‘know’...

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