Author: Deji Okegbile

 “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...

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...

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...