Author: Deji Okegbile

EVANGE-LENT 5: Lent: A Call to Intentional Wilderness

EVANGE-LENT 5: Lent: A Call to Intentional Wilderness

Posted by | Feb 18, 2018 | , |

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him – Mark 1:12 There are some things that we do not choose in life but just happen to us. Wilderness time is full of struggle, trial, and even misery. When we allow God’s presence in the time of our wilderness, we may feel stretched beyond our human abilities. The example of this was how the same Spirit of God that descended upon Jesus at Baptism and drove...

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EVANGE-LENT: Ash-Valentine – A reminder of life shortness.

EVANGE-LENT: Ash-Valentine – A reminder of life shortness.

Posted by | Feb 14, 2018 | , |

What has the juxtaposition of Ash Wednesday and Valentine Day got to do, especially in the days of moral free falls? Theodore Roosevelt said, “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” Ash-Valentine is a reflection on the moral and spiritual lessons of the season of Lent and Valentine’s Day, namely – Sacrifice, prayer, and giving. Ash-Valentine calls us to be careful of any partial or reductionist version of  Valentine and Lent to which we have become accustomed. Ash-Valentine is therefore about the proclamation of the good news about great...

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HEALING FOR RACIAL LEPROSY: GOD, NOT COLOUR CODED.

HEALING FOR RACIAL LEPROSY: GOD, NOT COLOUR CODED.

Posted by | Feb 11, 2018 | , , |

            ‘I have a dream … a dream of sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners sitting at the table of brotherhood a dream where children will not be judged by the colour of their skin a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made plain and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.’ – Martin Luther King. In our journey towards this year’s Valentine Day,...

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HEALING OF SOULS: STRATEGY TO COMMUNITY WHOLENESS

HEALING OF SOULS: STRATEGY TO COMMUNITY WHOLENESS

Posted by | Feb 5, 2018 | , |

It will be a double blessing if you give yourself up to the Great Physician (Jesus Christ), that He may heal soul and body together. And unquestionably this is His design. He wants to give you . . . both inward and outward health – John Wesley What could have been a day or weekend off for Jesus in a private home after his powerful preaching with an equally powerful act, ‘expelling the demon from a man in the crowd’ turned out to be a 24-7 pastoral call for Jesus. We tend to misunderstand the gospel today just as the...

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A New Teaching with Authority:  “… Not As the Scribes.”

A New Teaching with Authority:  “… Not As the Scribes.”

Posted by | Jan 29, 2018 | , |

   “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to Him …   If anyone does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name, I Myself will call him to account.” (Deut 18:15, 19). In the Lectionary text from Mark, we encounter a crowd and a speaker like in our present spiritual and political landscape. The situation resonates with our post-truth age and culture when nothing is sacred nothing is more difficult to understand than violations of sacred position, office, and space....

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