Author: Deji Okegbile

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...

  “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...