Author: Deji Okegbile

WHEN JESUS APPEARS: Living and leading in the Power of Resurrection.

The scriptural texts for today summons us to a Post-Easter encounter of what we now ought to be doing in the light of the reality of the power of Jesus’ resurrection. We are called to experience and manifest concrete implications of what happens when Jesus appears, when resurrection takes hold of our lives and community. In the Gospel, we read about the reality of resurrection when Jesus appears to us. Mary is our first consideration of what happens when Jesus appears to us. According to the resurrection account, Mary was seating outside the empty tomb weeping and looking into...

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PETER OZODO @ 70: A PIONEER OF CHARISMATIC MISSIONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.

The secular world we live in has little but temporary place for the eternal just as the eternal which will last forever has no place for the temporary materialistic and secular world. It therefore requires courage, zeal and unfaltering devotion of spirit, soul, mind and heart to Jesus to be a missionary in the secular and materialistic world and especially in the most Muslim dominated Northern Nigeria. Dr Peter Ozodo, a pioneer and still active missionary with others lost every bit of their temporal comforts but never let their Christian faith go in vain but, ‘with a clear mandate...

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TRIBUTE TO SIR ADEOLA OLUFON: A WORTHY PILLAR IN WESLEY CATHEDRAL, OLOWOGBOWO

I join my entire Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo family in Lagos to celebrate the transition of Sir Adeola Olufon, a man of integrity. The Methodist hymn by Charles Wesley, ‘Uphold me Saviour, or I fall, O reach me out thy gracious hand. Only on thee for help I call, Only by faith on thee I stand’ (MHB 478) summarised the physical, professional, marital, and spiritual life of Sir Adeola Olufon, a reputable Real Estate Surveyor and Valuer. Born, almost 70 years ago, Sir Olufon attended and graduated from the University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife) Nigeria with Bachelor’s Degree, Estate Management...

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MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr, ‘Apostle of Nonviolence’: 50 YEARS AFTER  HIS ASSASSINATION

“I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” – Martin Luther King Jr Fifty years ago, April 4, 1968, a leap year, a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. 50 years after, the assassination still tragically reverberates...

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THE OUTCOME OF RESURRECTION: HOPE AND ACTION FOR A CRYING WORLD (MARY)

Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. “He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.” – Matt 28:5-6 Theologically, without Calvary, Bethlehem would be in vain hence, the short distance between Bethlehem and Calvary summons us to take into account the eternal consequence of the death of Jesus born in Bethlehem. Talking about Jesus’ birth at Bethlehem without appropriating the essence of his crucifixion at Calvary promotes the commercialisation and secularisation of Christianity. The Psalm for Easter...

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