Author: Deji Okegbile

RESHAPING OUR IDENTITY: CONVERSION AS GOD’S WONDER

RESHAPING OUR IDENTITY: CONVERSION AS GOD’S WONDER

Posted by | Jan 26, 2018 | |

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you...

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JESUS CHRIST: GOD’S RIGHT HAND, GLORIOUS IN POWER

JESUS CHRIST: GOD’S RIGHT HAND, GLORIOUS IN POWER

Posted by | Jan 23, 2018 | , |

The saints in prayer appear as one, in word and deed and mind; while with the Father and the Son sweet fellowship they found – Montgomery James The song that Moses and the people of Israel sang to the Lord a few days before they had left Egypt with their fists raised in defiance to Pharaoh suggests efficacy of voices of God’s people when we come together in unity with hands lifted in worship, thanksgiving and praise of God. The prayerful hymn of Montgomery, James, son of John Montgomery, a Moravian minister quickly comes to mind in relation to...

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RESCUING THE SOUL OF NIGERIA FROM THE ‘HERDSPOLITICIANS’

RESCUING THE SOUL OF NIGERIA FROM THE ‘HERDSPOLITICIANS’

Posted by | Jan 19, 2018 | , |

 “Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.” ~ Isaiah 60:18  Pastoralists-farmers’ conflict among other threats to our national survival is one of the major effect of the phenomenal increase of Nigerian population to almost 200 million without a complementary transformation and mastery of governance. This is putting enormous pressure on our land and water resources used by farmers and pastoralists. The ensuing conflicts and violence with the use sophisticated weapons by the Fulani herdsmen has developed to rural banditry and...

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VISION OF ‘COME AND SEE’: SIGN OF A SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY CHURCH.

VISION OF ‘COME AND SEE’: SIGN OF A SPIRITUALLY HEALTHY CHURCH.

Posted by | Jan 15, 2018 | |

“At the end we may not remember the actions of our foes but we will always remember the silence of our friends” – Martin Luther King Jr On this 89th birthday anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr  we are reminded that the true test of friendship which resonates with true friends of Jesus is to stick up for the truth and gospel of “Come and See” especially when the going gets tough and when it is not politically advantageous. If the church go silent in such a times as this then we become friends of the world rather than...

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‘COME AND SEE’ ‘Shitholes Countries:’ To a Fake and Prodigal President and his evangelical advisers

‘COME AND SEE’ ‘Shitholes Countries:’ To a Fake and Prodigal President and his evangelical advisers

Posted by | Jan 14, 2018 | |

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.  – Chinua Achebe Africa, an enormous continent is the cradle of humanity and civilisation from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa to the development of the Stone Age technology. Africa is a continent of ‘Come and See’ a Nathaniel proverbial response especially to those saying ‘can anything good come...

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