Author: Deji Okegbile

ABUSE OF SCRIPTURE: Overcoming Satan’s Ploys for Evil Devices, Pride, Temptation and Sin.

ABUSE OF SCRIPTURE: Overcoming Satan’s Ploys for Evil Devices, Pride, Temptation and Sin.

Posted by | Mar 8, 2022 | |

Jesus’ temptation by the devil in the wilderness is a familiar story in the Scripture. The Gospel reading for the first Sunday in Lent ‘reminds us that our capacity to repent and to resist temptation comes from our relationship with God and the grace of his deliverance rather than from our own strength and initiative (Lk 4:1-13).’ Many today takes on pride or debate rather than to repent thinking that it is based on their own strength, wisdom or initiative. Genuine repentance from our sinful nature, attitude and habits are based on humble surrender to God’s grace at Christ...

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Evil of a Society and Church in Distress: 10 Years After, Tribute to my brother, Elder Michael Bamidele Obadimeji

Evil of a Society and Church in Distress: 10 Years After, Tribute to my brother, Elder Michael Bamidele Obadimeji

Posted by | Mar 2, 2022 | , |

I am writing this tribute today in the memory of my brother, Dele Obadimeji. The remembrance of my brother on this Ash Wednesday 2022, 10 years after his devastating transition is to acknowledge and share both our joy in God’s gift that his life was to us, the pain that his passing brings and the hope of eternal life in Christ. Our elder brother, Dele Obadimeji born in 1956, the eldest child in the families of Obadimeji and Okegbile was gruesomely murdered on his way to a night vigil organised by his church, Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Agbara Nla, Power...

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

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

Posted by | Mar 2, 2022 | , |

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...

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Papa Adeboye @ 80: The Thirst for Revival.

Papa Adeboye @ 80: The Thirst for Revival.

Posted by | Mar 2, 2022 | |

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...

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

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

Posted by | Mar 1, 2022 | |

 “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...

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