Author: Deji Okegbile

REFORMATION @ 500: OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF LUTHER (1).

REFORMATION @ 500: OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF LUTHER (1).

Posted by | Oct 29, 2017 | |

  I hope the last day will not tarry over 100 years, because God’s Word will be taken away again and a great darkness will come for the scarcity of ministers of the Word – Martin Luther (1483 – 1546), Schriften, vol 22, col.16/18, (1538). Today is Reformation Sunday and the epistle reading from 1 Thessalonian chapter 2 points us to the truth about the Reformation and fear of Martin Luther. Eight years before his death, Luther expressed his fear of how long the Reformation, his protest against the church’s corrupt heresy and errors could last. His hope in...

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One World, Two choices: Caesar or God?

One World, Two choices: Caesar or God?

Posted by | Oct 27, 2017 | |

Life could be described as a series of choices. Today, it is 50 years since ‘the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill (subsequently the Abortion Act 1967) passed its Second Reading in the House of Commons with a massive vote of 223 votes for and 29 against.’ The world is still living with the choices and consequences of the legality of abortion and other acts passed many years ago, especially with over a calculated 8, 624, 567 innocent lives lost under the 1967 Abortion Act. The choices we make has power over us hence, the world and the church are...

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DELE GIWA AT 70: Enough of Errand boy Journalism.

DELE GIWA AT 70: Enough of Errand boy Journalism.

Posted by | Oct 22, 2017 | |

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth – Plato I owed Mr Sumonu Dele Giwa, ace journalist and founding Editor-in-chief Newswatch who was killed in his prime at age 39 a tribute for his influence on my love for writing and reading. I remember the legacies of his refined journalist, though the unanswered question about Dele Giwa at 70 and 31 years after his brutal assassination on Sunday 19th October 1986 remains: Who killed Dele Giwa? Who sent the merchant of death with the parcel that was received by Dele’s son Billy on behalf of...

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Banquet Invitation: Call for Bums on seats

Banquet Invitation: Call for Bums on seats

Posted by | Oct 17, 2017 | |

The parable of the Wedding Dinner shows that Israeli’s rejection of Jesus will bring judgement and those with true change of life including the outcasts will be included in God’s kingdom (Matt 22: 6, 7, 9, 11-13). The King in the parable is God Who continues to reach out to you and me through His messengers with the Good News again and again. In God’s agenda, everyone have already a place through an invitation into His Kingdom. The sad news is that many are making light of the royal invitation forgetting that the consequence is tragic. In the parable,...

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THE PARABLE OF ‘OCTOBER COUNT.’

THE PARABLE OF ‘OCTOBER COUNT.’

Posted by | Oct 11, 2017 | |

The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him (Matt 13: 10-12). The Methodist Church in Britain is one of the Christian denominations in the world that is able to express itself effectively in quantitative terms through the regular collection and publications of statistics which began as...

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