Deji Okegbile

10 years after, I remember my BROTHER. ‘Obadimeji; One death, many causes’ – Nigerian Tribune, 2012

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Mar 2, 2022 | Events, Nations |

Tunde Ogunesan of the Tribune wrote on Wednesday 11th April, 2012 on the controversy surrounding the gruesome murder of Mr Michael Obadimeji, an Assistant General Manager with Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company during a night vigil organised by his church. MARCH 3, 2012 is a date the Obadimejis would `not forget in a hurry. It was the day their breadwinner, Michael Bamidele Obadimeji, an Assistant General Manager, Human Resources at the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (PHCN), Capital building, MKO Abiola Road, Ibadan, was brutally murdered on his way to a night vigil. The late Obadimeji, who had just been promoted...

Papa Adeboye @ 80: The Thirst for Revival.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Mar 2, 2022 | Events |

Nigeria is bedevilled with ‘all varieties of power without a human face, demanding blind loyalties and disregard for the diversity of human life, all working for a false kind of unity or solidarity’ and spirituality. Dr Olu Onagoruwa in one of his papers, ‘Poverty, Corruption and Democracy – Strange Bedfellows?’ pictured the extent to which corruption has gripped this country called Nigeria. Onagoruwa asked ‘why should a country, with a democratic constitution be so stepped in corruption? Our politicians no longer regard it as corruption but as a “commercial venture.” Onagoruwa’s reference to a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo...

Transfiguration in Global darkness of Sin and War: Preface to Lent.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Mar 1, 2022 | Missions and Evangelism |

“Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?” (James 4:1) The Sunday’s Transfiguration gospel reading from Luke mentions that “Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him” (Luke 9:32). The passages in Luke reveal how Jesus was not really heard. As it was difficult for a sleepy Peter and his companions to really heard Jesus, a sleeping church today need a wake-up call in such a...

BLESSINGS AND WOES: MISSIONAL ROADMAPS FOR JESUS’ CENTRED WORLDVIEW.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Feb 18, 2022 | Missions and Evangelism |

The Gospel reading from Luke 6 is a hopeful text as well as a call to repentance. While the blessings assured us of eternal hope, the woes, a reversal of the blessings that immediately precede calls for repentance (vv 17-26). This Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Plain beyond our familiarity with the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew (Matt 5:1-12) summons the church to urgent rethink roadmaps for Jesus’ centred worldview. What did Jesus do first when training His disciples? He first transformed their spiritual perspective and missional attitude, a change from the inside out. In less...

‘Why Some People Don’t Catch Fish’: Lack of Fishing Password – “At thy Word.”

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Feb 11, 2022 | Missions and Evangelism |

In our Gospel reading from Luke 5, we read about “why some people don’t catch fish.” This reflection beyond catching of fish or washing of nets resonates why some churches and people don’t win souls into God’s kingdom. God never wanted it to be so, that is why He gave us His word. Hosea gives us a picture of how people, church, nations decline and perish not from lack of money, technology or theology, but lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). People simply do not lack knowledge especially about Jesus and His word; they actively reject or deny Him. The...