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VERY REVEREND ADEMOROTI: A Trustee of the “Apostolic Faith.”

Posted by Deji Okegbile | May 19, 2023 | Methodism, Ministry and Prayer |

All of God’s people are responsible for ensuring the church’s apostolicity. Very Reverend Gabriel Obasanmi Ademoroti faithfully exposited the Word of God to his congregations throughout his earthly ministry and teaching career. Apostolicity as one of the defining elements of the church according to the Apostles’ Creed ‘means being in continuity with the Holy faith and practice of the Apostles’ (Jude 3). The challenge today is that a church that is not built on the foundation of the teaching of the Apostles and prophets—the divine revelation of the Scriptures—will not endure in faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Baba Ademoroti’s ministry...

“If you love Me, keep My commandments”: Call to Complete Obedience.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | May 18, 2023 | Missions and Evangelism |

Jesus says: “If you love Me, keep My commandments … He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me … If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” – John 14:15-24 Jesus’s last word at the Last Supper points to His last will to His followers, “If you love me, keep my commandments” – (Jn 14:15). True love for God cannot be separated from complete obedience. Jesus Christ died to bring complete obedience and wholesome...

My Mentor, Sir Prof. Amund, Nigerian Foremost Petroleum Microbiologist, and a Knight of John Wesley @ 70: A Life of ‘Surprise Package.’

Posted by Deji Okegbile | May 5, 2023 | Events |

A Methodist hymn, ‘SOMETIMES a light surprise, the Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises, with healing in his wings’ aptly described the life testimonies of Sir Professor Kayode Amund. Indeed, ‘sometimes a light surprise,’ Sir Prof Amund, between 2004 and 2007, had been the erstwhile founding Vice-Chancellor and Member of Council, Wesley University of Science and Technology, Ondo, now Wesley University, Ondo. In 2019, during the Silver Jubilee celebration of Methodist Church Nigeria Knighthood and awards, Distinguished Professor Amund, a local Methodist preacher, a former Senior Local Steward, Hoarse’s Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Yaba, Lagos, and...

THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III: God Save the King … God Save Us All.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | May 3, 2023 | Events, Nations |

Faced with the growing secularism and decline of Christianity, the personal faith of Queen Elizabeth II re-echoes the Christian values and the unique role of the British monarch as head of the established Church. The function of the monarchy since the reformation keeps Christianity in the public sphere, ‘even if more honoured in the breach than the observance.’ [1] In our rebellion against the divine monarchy, the decline in biblical literacy and Christian formation calls us to cry to “God to save the king” to save us all, for all have sinned (Rom 3:23). As the monarch swears a coronation oath...