Author: Deji Okegbile

COVENANT REFLECTION: Impediment or Implement to Redemption?  

COVENANT REFLECTION: Impediment or Implement to Redemption?  

Posted by | Jan 1, 2017 | |

  Happy New Year 2017 of Uncommon Divine Providence that starts ON A COVENANT SUNDAY. Covenant in this context is a lasting and enduring relationship with God. The truth is that God cannot fail because ‘As for God, His way is perfect,’ ‘The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works’ (Ps 18:30, 145:17). You have a part to play and God has His hence, Covenant service provides opportunity for us to renew our covenant relationship with the Unchanging God (Exd 23:25-26; Jn 3:18). When we walk in covenant with God in the light...

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CHRISTMAS QUESTION, A POINTER TO POST-EASTER JESUS

CHRISTMAS QUESTION, A POINTER TO POST-EASTER JESUS

Posted by | Dec 26, 2016 | |

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...

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Advent in a World of Immigrants

Advent in a World of Immigrants

Posted by | Dec 18, 2016 | |

  “Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family,” the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. The United Nation General Assembly declared the 18 December as International Migrants Day, a day to celebrate the role of the migrant and the contribution that migration brings to development. However, beyond the development contribution and migration role narrative of UN shaped by economic interest, migration is connected with relationship with God (Ps 137:4). In a world of immigrants, our citizenship is in...

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Uyo Church Building Collapse

Uyo Church Building Collapse

Posted by | Dec 13, 2016 | |

The collapsed building of Reigners Bible Church International on Saturday, December 10, in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state is one collapse too many in Nigeria. In September 2014, 115 people including 84 South Africans were killed in Lagos in the collapse of a church belonging to the famous televangelist TB Joshua. The Uyo church building collapsed during a special bishopric enthronement service for the founder of Reigners’ Bible Church, Apostle Akan Weeks, killing many worshippers and leaving several others injured. The service was attended by the Akwa Ibom state governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, his deputy, Mr Moses Ekpo, and...

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BOLAJI IDOWU LIVES ON: METHODIST EPISCOPACY AT 40

BOLAJI IDOWU LIVES ON: METHODIST EPISCOPACY AT 40

Posted by | Nov 26, 2016 | |

In such a time, when the contemporary democratic, theological and leadership scenes has become chaotic, ethnicized, and corrupted,  Patriarch Professor Bolaji Idowu (1913-1993), one of the most influential theologians in Africa during the last half of the 20th century, a pioneer in developing African Christian Theology provides a pointer on the task of theology and how theology is to be pursued and effectively applied. Patriarch Bolaji’s major works especially on church leadership with particular reference to the vision behind Methodist episcopacy has potential to renew and revive the Church in Nigeria and Africa because it is based and deeply...

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