Author: Deji Okegbile

None of the legends and other folklores of green beer or leprechauns, banishing snakes from Ireland, using shamrocks to teach the Trinity, or walking stick growing into a living tree has anything to do with the real Patrick. St Patrick’s Day is more important than what he did in Ireland because of what he symbolises in such a season as this and at a time when the church is loosing its identity, authority, and bearing.  Succat, meaning ‘warlike’ in modern Welsh and later known as St Patrick was born about the year A.D 372 A.D to a British family...

‘Diminishing power is always the result of diminished faith’ – Gary Inrig The summary of the Book of Judges where ‘everyone did what was right in his own eyes’ aptly resonates and typify our present societal moral and the church decline (Judg 17:6; 21:25). The people of Israel experienced trouble because everyone became his own authority and acted on their own opinions and impulses of right and wrong. Indeed, our world is not different, individuals, groups and societies have themselves the final authority without reference and obedience  to God’s Word and standard. In essence, When God goes, faith decline...

The world is passing from dependence into bondage hence, the loss of what God has blessed us with. Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748-1813) in his book, The Decline and Fall of The Athenian Republic stated: The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years, we read, and those nations progressed through this sequence: From Bondage to Spiritual Faith – From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage. From Courage to Liberty – From Liberty to Abundance. From Abundance to Selfishness – From Selfishness to Complacency. From Complacency to Apathy – From Apathy to Dependency. From Dependency back again into...

Epiphany calls us not to be an undercover Christians who blend in with everyone and everything in the world. We are called to be a testimony, a revelation, a blessedness, a shiny salty disciples. The Beatitudes, beyond happy attitudes or institutional and inclusive correctness rearranges honour, power, and privilege. The Beatitudes presuppose faith about Gospel of Jesus, and  according to Matthew, it provides the very core of our Christian tradition and exhortation to prevent putrefaction. Jesus looked at the crowds, and said to them, ‘Blessed are you,’ and to each of them, he said, ‘You are the salt of...

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...