Author: Deji Okegbile

MOTHERING AND THE LOVE OF JESUS

Mother is God number two.” – Chewa, Malawi proverb Every Mother’s Day celebration re-echos the tenderness and love of God through Jesus to the world. God’s tenderness is bestowed on us (father and mother) as His image, created in His likeness. However, mother’s tenderness gets in first upon a child with her view of the world, and in most cases, this forms unique influence on us and our adult lives spiritually, economically and emotionally. The love of a mother resonates with how God through Jesus loves us without any discrimination or reservation, hence, today we honour and celebrate all...

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BILLY GRAHAM: DYING TO BE ‘BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE.’

“When Death comes to find you, may it find you alive” – African Proverb There are Christians from a certain tribe in Africa who never say of their dead “who die in the Lord” that “they have departed.”  Instead, speaking as it were from the vantage point of the glory world, they triumphantly and joyously say, “they have arrived.” Billy Graham rightly said, ‘My home is in heaven, I’m just travelling through this world.” Death found Graham alive on Wednesday 21st February, 2018 at 7:46 am  and he safely ‘arrived’ home. According to Mark DeMoss, a spokesman for the...

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BILLY GRAHAM and his Personal Pastor: A Reversed Role?

Under a two-fold assault – one within and one without, the increasing and prevailing crisis and pressure upon pastors are undeniable. Pastoring is becoming challenging in such a time, when even believers are succumbing ‘to the snares of secularism. Pastors deal daily with diluted dedication, family disintegration, superficial commitments, and an accepted churchly consumerism no longer interested in sacrifice, suffering, or servanthood … Outside the church, pastors face a new dark age where the masses have no Christian memory, success is king, and faith issues are far down the average person’s priority…’ In our post-truth culture under the sense...

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BILLY GRAHAM: ‘BILLY-CUMENISM’ – NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

As belief in the Bible was diminished by humanism, rationalism and liberal theology, Billy Graham arose to the need and mission to recover the truth of the Scripture so that “we may all be one in Him.” Billy Graham as one of the architects of the modern ecumenism movement was one of the evangelical leaders that shared ecumenical optimism and restoration of the Bible authority. Among the challenges that followed the Counter- Reformation, the aim of the ecumenical initiatives in bringing all churches and denominations together was to overcome what William Temple, then Archbishop of York and later Archbishop...

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Billy Graham: A Great Story Teller

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today … Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact – Robert McKee Preacher’s foremost obligation bearing in mind the function good news plays in the lives of people is to the truth of the gospel with absolute trust and loyalty to God. The gospel as a function of evangelism entails a process of communication in which preachers uses proclamation and storytelling to make the gospel good newsworthy. My study and research about...

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