Author: Deji Okegbile

What is thicker and eternal than blood? Taking Jesus spiritually, not just literally.

What is thicker and eternal than blood? Taking Jesus spiritually, not just literally.

Posted by | Jun 11, 2018 | |

The Gospel reading from Mark 3:20-35 asked us to identify with people who sit at Jesus’ feet. In the height of our post-modern popular culture, Jesus calls us into an unpopular, strict, and seemingly renewal culture and group who put God first in their lives in everything. The invitation to follow Jesus, to live as he lived by making the will of God the first thing in our lives point to the importance of spiritual relation beyond the biologic relation. This brings to our reflection, the saying, blood runs thicker than water, but there’s something thicker than blood.  It...

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HEALING FOR A ‘WITHERED HAND’ CHURCH: BEYOND MANMADE LAWS.

HEALING FOR A ‘WITHERED HAND’ CHURCH: BEYOND MANMADE LAWS.

Posted by | Jun 5, 2018 | , , |

Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.” Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched...

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TRINITY: A Call to Personal Reconciliation with the Vision of Holy One

TRINITY: A Call to Personal Reconciliation with the Vision of Holy One

Posted by | May 27, 2018 | , , , |

Trinity Sunday began to be observed in England under St Thomas Becket in the 10th century and then spread to the rest of Western Christendom. Holy Trinity Sunday is the First Sunday after Pentecost, ushering in the season when the church hears about Jesus’ ministry and then about the church’s own ministry. Trinity Sunday is celebrated the Sunday after Pentecost as symbolic of the unity of the God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The endless paradoxes in the Athanasian Creed: ‘not three eternals, but one eternal, not three uncreated, but One uncreated …’ may sound like some great riddle...

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METHODIST PENTECOST AT 280 – WANTED: 100 Preachers for Revival of Holiness

METHODIST PENTECOST AT 280 – WANTED: 100 Preachers for Revival of Holiness

Posted by | May 24, 2018 | , , , , , , |

In the morning of May 24th 1738, 280 years ago, John Wesley received the ‘exceeding great and precious promises of God and became a partaker of God’s divine nature (2 Pet 1:4). Based on this Pentecost experience, Wesley articulated the vision of the emerging Methodist as a practice and ‘religion of love and joy and peace, having its seat in the heart, in the inmost soul, but ever showing itself by its fruits, continually springing forth, not only in all innocence… but likewise in every kind of beneficence, in spreading virtue and happiness all around it.’ Towards the end...

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THY KINGDOM COME-METHODIST PENTECOST AT 280: A Call to Personal Pentecost.

THY KINGDOM COME-METHODIST PENTECOST AT 280: A Call to Personal Pentecost.

Posted by | May 20, 2018 | , , , , , |

Methodism emerged from John and Charles Wesley’s Pentecostal and evangelical experiences in May 1738, 280 years ago. Charles, the younger brother of John experienced his evangelical conversion on Pentecost Sunday May 21, three days afterwards John also was able to believe to the salvation of his soul at a Moravian society meeting in a room on Aldersgate Street in London. A pre-Pentecost Charles ‘sterile and unproductive poetry and hymnody’ experienced a decent of the Holy Spirit. Among his post-Pentecost hymns, ‘O, that l had a thousand tongues to sing my Great Redeemers’s praise; And Can it be that I...

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