Month: December 2023

FULFILLING AN INCREASE SENSE OF MISSION URGENCY: CELEBRATING MY LAY PRESIDENT, DAME SOLANKE, @70.

FULFILLING AN INCREASE SENSE OF MISSION URGENCY: CELEBRATING MY LAY PRESIDENT, DAME SOLANKE, @70.

Posted by | Dec 30, 2023 | , |

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence, there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Ps 16:11 Today, we are glad as we rejoice with Dame Susan Isonken Solanke, the pioneer Lay President, Nigeria Methodist Mission, UK, and Ireland, on her seventieth birthday. We join her in celebrating this special day in her life as one who is alive and full of life to the glory of God, a blessing to the church, and service to humanity. The most well-known Scripture reference to the age of seventy is to be...

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‘ARCHONTISSA’ HONORE: A Model of the Spirituality of Church Ministry, and Academic Brilliance.

‘ARCHONTISSA’ HONORE: A Model of the Spirituality of Church Ministry, and Academic Brilliance.

Posted by | Dec 28, 2023 | , |

The poetic line by Dylan Thomas, ‘And death shall have no dominion,’ appears to be thin in the light of the fact that Very Rev Dr Honore Mahupego Sewapo is no longer amongst us. The Very Rev Dr Honore’s transition strikes as lightning by clear daylight. Methodist Church Nigeria, Wesley, University, Badagry Diocese, and the University of Ibadan have lost one of the missional, brightest, liveliest, creative colleagues.  Archontissa Honore… Archontissa, in Greek, means man or woman of great power and incredible generosity, whose power to guide or lead people is boundlessly from his ability to give. Since I...

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The Joy of Persecution.

The Joy of Persecution.

Posted by | Dec 21, 2023 | |

And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God has willed his truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure; One little word shall fell him – Martin Luther In this temporary world, Advent-watch invites us to walk with God in Whom we have a treasure that the world cannot take from us. In this world, the power of man or the devil can deprive or rob us of earthly treasures; hence,...

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Renewing Sequence of Advent Themes.

Renewing Sequence of Advent Themes.

Posted by | Dec 20, 2023 | |

The lighting of five candles to mark the passing Sundays of Advent and Christmas Day remains an essential feature of many church services today. The coloured candles are interpreted by different traditions in different ways, associating them with different themes. Mark Earey, in one of his traditional hymns, ‘Advent candles tell their story’ (StF 165), follows the missional and renewing sequence of Advent themes that resonates with Charles Wesley’s double nature of Advent. Mark reminds us of ‘the eschatological message that runs through the pre-Christmas season, reminding us of a world that will find final fulfilment in the will...

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