Author: Deji Okegbile

ALDERSGATE SUNDAY: INVITATION TO MAKE A CHOICE

ALDERSGATE SUNDAY: INVITATION TO MAKE A CHOICE

Posted by | May 21, 2017 | |

The hymn that Charles Wesley and his brother, John sang following John’s personal experience of conversion, ‘Where shall  my wondering soul begin?’ at a meeting in Aldersgate Street on 24 May, 1738 provides a clue to one of God’s characters as no respecter of persons. ‘But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted’ (Acts 10:35). In Greek, the word ‘respecter of persons is prosopolemptes in relation to ‘a judge who looks at a man’s face instead of at the facts of the case, and makes a decision based on whether or not he likes the...

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REMEMBERING PA ELTON

REMEMBERING PA ELTON

Posted by | May 21, 2017 | |

When l was teaching in my beloved home town, Osu, Ilesa (1981 – 1985), and in my Evangelical Christian Union days in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo (1986), l heard about Pa S. G. Elton who left his native country, England, to come to Nigeria in March 1937 saying in the coming revival, – Africa is like a hand gun turned downward; Nigeria is the trigger…’ Until his passage in Ilesa in January 13, 1987, PA Elton’s fifty years fruitful ministry in Nigeria concentrated on teaching prophetic truths and he was in partnership with the on-going Oke Oye 1930...

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HOLY WEDNESDAY: Judases in every age

HOLY WEDNESDAY: Judases in every age

Posted by | Apr 13, 2017 | |

Every man is a Judas who sells Christ or his truth, for gain or reputation, or who, for the sake of the worldly interest, conceals the truth, disowns Christ’s cause, or deserts Christ’s friends’ – Joseph Barker. Judas syndrome, the proud, sinful pattern/thread of betrayal and degradation of faith continues to plague and appears in the bright light of Christianity since its founding. Understanding Judas, helps us understand ourselves, church leadership and condition of the church today. John’s Gospel portrays Judas, diabolos, an agent of Satan, a deceiver rather than a disciple (Jn 13:27). The theological implication is that...

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WALKING THE PALM SUNDAY ROAD: A CALL TO BE PILGRIMS.

WALKING THE PALM SUNDAY ROAD: A CALL TO BE PILGRIMS.

Posted by | Apr 10, 2017 | |

  In the first century, people greet visiting king by going out to meet him with praise into the city. Two thousand years ago, great crowd who came for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and they came to welcome him with palm branches shouting: Hosanna which meant in Hebrew, ‘save us. Rescue us ’ Palm trees represented a free and independent Judea. While Jesus knew that he was coming for a different purpose, the shout of Hosanna  by the crowd was a right word for wrong reason. To the crowd, a dead messiah...

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PROPHETIC LENT: ECHO OF REVIVAL

PROPHETIC LENT: ECHO OF REVIVAL

Posted by | Apr 7, 2017 | |

‘When the gospel is preached and lived, people cannot for ever be indifferent. But the church in Sardis has avoided such discomfort. Like Chameleon, it has simply melted into its surroundings and become indistinguishable from them. It has become outstandingly successful at the art of camouflage’ – Stephen Travis Lent offers us opportunity to hear the creative word of God anew for personal and church revival. The dry bones in Ezekiel 37 that could not hear or respond to God’s word, can now hear and move into mission and evangelism. Revival is always preceded by a desperate condition and...

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