Author: Deji Okegbile

The world is passing from dependence into bondage hence, the loss of what God has blessed us with. Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748-1813) in his book, The Decline and Fall of The Athenian Republic stated: The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years, we read, and those nations progressed through this sequence: From Bondage to Spiritual Faith – From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage. From Courage to Liberty – From Liberty to Abundance. From Abundance to Selfishness – From Selfishness to Complacency. From Complacency to Apathy – From Apathy to Dependency. From Dependency back again into...

Epiphany calls us not to be an undercover Christians who blend in with everyone and everything in the world. We are called to be a testimony, a revelation, a blessedness, a shiny salty disciples. The Beatitudes, beyond happy attitudes or institutional and inclusive correctness rearranges honour, power, and privilege. The Beatitudes presuppose faith about Gospel of Jesus, and  according to Matthew, it provides the very core of our Christian tradition and exhortation to prevent putrefaction. Jesus looked at the crowds, and said to them, ‘Blessed are you,’ and to each of them, he said, ‘You are the salt of...

The season of Epiphany elaborated through the Old Testament, Psalms, Gospel and the epistle lessons for the season points and calls you and me, and the church as vehicle for epiphanies. On Epiphany Day, the light guides the three wise men to the birthplace of Jesus. This was followed in Luke’s depiction, how the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in form as a dove. The lesson is that the incarnation of the Spirit as a dove goes beyond the symbol of gentleness, but that God can use anything to reveal His glory and purpose. From the first Sunday after...

One of my experiences and observations from the Mission on the Street is that people have never been short of opinions when it comes to Jesus Christ. Just as it was in Jesus’ days, there were people who criticised and questioned His Person and His purpose in life. Beloved, the harvest is truly ripe and very plenty, but many are yet to know the Person and purpose of Jesus while some just ignores him claiming that ‘they are what they are.’ The question Jesus asked his disciples, ‘Who do you say that I am?’ (Matt 16:15) is not about...