Author: Deji Okegbile

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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America of 1776, With a Spirit of 2018

It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are indispensable supporters – President George Washington In recent time, especially when I saw the videos of some innocent children in a cage, I was moved to tear and I have been praying more and doing some studies about America. How did America get to this low level? America was a wilderness in the 17th and 18th centuries, ‘there were few roads, no national postal system. Most of the population lived in villages...

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Radical Grace Transforming Hope: Rising from Death of Sin and Sickness into a New Creation.

The Holy Bible remains the bestselling book in the world for a reason it is not just a work of literary genius. The Bible is God’s word and love letter to you and me, it guides us to eternity with God through and in Jesus Christ. The Gospels containing 37 miracles of Jesus Christ brings a renewing understanding of radical grace transforming hope of God in the day to day issues of our life. The Gospels and miracles are about the outward sign of inward transformation. Based on the book of Titus 3 verse 6-7, Radical Grace Transforming Hope...

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