Author: Deji Okegbile

And Christian marriage goes that one step further and says that for those who can grasp it, this relationship between a man and a woman is now a living sign of God’s relation to the world, and of what God thinks about human capacity and dignity. It is a sign telling us that God is to be trusted to be faithful – and that God trusts us to echo that faithfulness – Archbishop Rowan Williams Marriage was God’s idea. God ordained marriage between man and woman before sin entered the world. Marriage is of fundamental importance for children, mothers...

International evangelist Reinhard Bonnke believe in the relevance of 2 Kg 2:9-11 as biblical example of incarnational transference of God’s gifts and calling even for today. Bonnke operated on this belief for 35 years in Christ for All Nation ministry. He stepped down in 2010 at age 70 and appointed 29 years old Daniel Kolenda as his successor.  Kolenda, a fifth generation preacher left the church he planted with his wife to joined Bonnke ministry in 2006. The testimony of Kolenda according to Bonnke is that ‘anointed must be appointed.’ Seven years ago Bonnke says of Kolenda, “I invited Daniel...

On every Remembrance Sunday, we gather in God’s presence with the Poppy wreaths and crosses to remember before God with thanksgiving those who died for their country. We also meet to dedicate ourselves to work for peace and justice in the world. Remembrance Day invites us to a solemn commitment not to allow evil to prevail again so that the sacrifices and service of our heroes past may not be in vain. However, the Remembrance Day calls us to remember through the remembering of our past and present pain and loss that there is always the light of hope,...

I believe, the world renowned evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke’s return to Nigeria for his final international crusade last week at the large expanse of land at Isheri Osun, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is prophetic. God gave Bonnke a specific farewell revelation and burden to help Nigeria fix its social fabrics and economy, but the fixing must first start among the Nigerian Christian leaders. Bonnke is saying to the Nigerian Christians, every denominations in Nigeria, and all the blocs in Christian Association of Nigeria, ‘you do not belong to yourselves, you belong to the whole Christians in Nigeria.’ Bonnke is calling the Nigerian...

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach – Matt 23:1-3   The Gospel reading from Matthew 23:1-12 calls us to be ever conscious of the witness we are giving to the world especially in an age when more and more people are checking out of church and religious life. The story from Matthew 23 is about Jesus’ warning against the hypocrisy...