Author: Deji Okegbile

History provides a litany of invasions where armies have used their might to subjugate and oppress people. The spiritual invasion of Jerusalem during the first Palm Sunday was not a violent invasion we know from history. Jesus’ invasion of Jerusalem mocked the Roman invaders and the messianic hopes of those who believed that Jesus would restore the empire of David and Solomon. The invasion mocked the Roman leaders, who could not allow freedom of political expression. Guess what the two disciples sent by Jesus to untie the horse were thinking. They might have imagined for themselves a nobler role;...

There is no true Christianity without the knowledge of the Cross and the Resurrection power. Jesus’ Resurrection proves that the grave is not the final chapter of human existence. Jesus’s Resurrection gives forgiven life. Nations and churches are decaying and declining because of a lack of knowledge and experience of Jesus as the ONLY Saviour and His resurrection power. A ‘post-Christian’ society is a missional opportunity to know Jesus and His Power of Resurrection hence, a call away from idolatrous compromises and mere conservation of structures. Knowing Jesus and His Power of Resurrection summons us towards an ‘ever-growing biblical...

Lazarus is dead, but that was not his end. Beloved, your physical death is not your end. The raising of Lazarus is the last of seven miracle signs in John’s Gospel. It shows what Jesus meant when He declared, “I am the resurrection and the life (Jn 11:25). The resurrection of the body of anyone who has died physically but who will spend eternity either in heaven or hell is one of the basic teachings in God’s Word. Those who reject this sign and teaching always have no alternative but to deny or kill Jesus, who performs the miracle...