Author: Deji Okegbile

THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF NIGERIA SEASON OF RENEWED HOPE.

The first 100 days of any presidency, especially the new administration of His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, suggests a time of intense, focused activity. Decisions made during this time frame in 2023 will significantly impact our nation. Therefore, please join us in some practical ways to pray and intercede during these crucial days:      1. Protection. Pray for the Lord’s protection throughout this presidential term. The president, vice president, their families, and everyone in the administration need physical and spiritual protection. Lord, be the Defender of our nation!...

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WARNING FROM WESLEYS: ESCAPE FROM ETERNAL FIRE, RECEIVE JESUS TODAY!

Where shall my wondering soul begin?  How shall I all to heaven aspire?  A slave redeemed from death and sin,  a brand plucked from eternal fire,  how shall I equal triumphs raise  and sing my great deliverer’s praise? – Charles Wesley Wesley Day, May 24, the day Methodists mark John Wesley’s life-changing experience at a meeting in Aldersgate Street, London, remains a pointer to personal conversion. Like many of us today, before May 1738, no one ‘would have said that John and Charles Wesley were anything but devout Christian men. Nevertheless, the change in them that formed the theology...

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Charles Wesley’s Conversion – Beyond Bad Press.

Hymn singing was essential to the Methodist evangelical revival in the eighteenth century; hymns were both a means of expressing joy and teaching scriptural truth. The famous Methodist hymn writer Charles Wesley was the eighteenth of Samuel and Susannah Wesley’s nineteen children (only ten lived to maturity). He was born prematurely in December 1707 and appeared dead. He lay silent, wrapped in wool, for weeks. In May 1738, Charles began reading Martin Luther’s volume on Galatians while ill. He wrote in his diary, “I laboured, waited, and prayed to feel ‘who loved me, and gave himself for me.'” He...

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Remembering the manner of Prelate Mbang’s Living and Dying.

When death comes to find you, may it find you alive – African Proverb. With emotion, I celebrate the life of a highly respected, noble, kind father and leader, a Patriarch and a Prelate emeritus, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Dr. Sunday Coffie Mbang (1936-2023). I feel in my heart such gratitude, gratitude to God for having gifted Prelate Mbang to the church and the world. From the vantage point of the glorious world, Prelate Mbang, a renowned theologian, triumphantly and joyously “…have arrived.” Death found Prelate Mbang alive on Tuesday, 16th May 2023, at the Specialist Hospital, Uyo, Akwa...

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VERY REVEREND ADEMOROTI: A Trustee of the “Apostolic Faith.”

All of God’s people are responsible for ensuring the church’s apostolicity. Very Reverend Gabriel Obasanmi Ademoroti faithfully exposited the Word of God to his congregations throughout his earthly ministry and teaching career. Apostolicity as one of the defining elements of the church according to the Apostles’ Creed ‘means being in continuity with the Holy faith and practice of the Apostles’ (Jude 3). The challenge today is that a church that is not built on the foundation of the teaching of the Apostles and prophets—the divine revelation of the Scriptures—will not endure in faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Baba Ademoroti’s ministry...

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