Author: Deji Okegbile

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: Power must change hands: Overcoming the sins of leadership.

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: Power must change hands: Overcoming the sins of leadership.

Posted by | Dec 25, 2020 | , , , |

‘Unto us a child is born; unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders’ – Isaiah 9:6 God’s answer to the arrogance of the world is a Child, His own Son. This Child will be what Judah’s human kings, or other forms of government – parliamentary constitutional monarchies, absolute monarchies, military dictators, semi-presidential republics, parliamentary republics, one-party states have not been. The government of Jesus especially in time of great darkness and pandemic is beyond the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally, a state consisting of legislative, executive, and...

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Taking Charge: You will part the waters (December Seminar, Methodist Church Nigeria, Young Men’s Fellowship, South West).

Taking Charge: You will part the waters (December Seminar, Methodist Church Nigeria, Young Men’s Fellowship, South West).

Posted by | Dec 19, 2020 | , |

Happy renewing Advent to you all in Jesus name. Advent is about Jesus coming to part the water of unbelief, the Red Sea of sin and hell, and anticipation of Jesus’ Second Coming. Thank you for inviting me to be part of this seminar today, I pray iron will sharpen one another. Our anchor text for this seminar is taking from Exodus 14. The Bible says, then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israel to go forward. 16. And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand...

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Abiding nature of Christ’s joy: Charles Wesley’s example.

Abiding nature of Christ’s joy: Charles Wesley’s example.

Posted by | Dec 18, 2020 | , , |

As we get ready to move into 2021, the joyful news to the world is that the abiding presence of God is moving with us preparing us for a New Year in reaching lost souls with abiding joy in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Today’s celebration of Charles Wesley’s 313th birthday inspires us to learn from Wesley’s abiding nature of Christ’s joy even in the face of opposition, violent and lawless culture. Indeed the lives and testimonies of the early Methodists invites us to learn missional opportunities and how to find abiding nature of Christ’s joy in the midst...

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METHODIST SOCIAL HOLINESS: REORIENTATION OF NIGERIANS ON THE VALUES FOR LIVES AND HUMANITY. Presentation at the Methodist Pre Conference Prayer Retreat/CCED, Lagos.

METHODIST SOCIAL HOLINESS: REORIENTATION OF NIGERIANS ON THE VALUES FOR LIVES AND HUMANITY. Presentation at the Methodist Pre Conference Prayer Retreat/CCED, Lagos.

Posted by | Dec 2, 2020 | , , |

I give thanks to God for this opportunity to be a part of this Prayer Retreat. I thank our father, His Eminence Dr Samuel Chukwuemeka Kanu Uche especially for his inspiring opening prayer this morning. I must thank our Bishop of Evangelism, Rt Rev Prof Samuel Sunday Obeka for the fellowship extended to me and the opportunity to share with this body the importance of Methodist social holiness for the reorientation of Nigerians on the values for lives and humanity. The first Patriarch, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Pre Eminence, Professor Bolaji Idowu in his famous publication, Olodumare – God...

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JUSTICE AKINSANYA: HEROINE OF NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY, THE ‘JUNE 12’ ICONIC JURIST.

JUSTICE AKINSANYA: HEROINE OF NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY, THE ‘JUNE 12’ ICONIC JURIST.

Posted by | Nov 27, 2020 | , |

President Babangida has no legitimate power to sign a decree after August 26, 1993, after his exit, so the decree is void and of no effect – Hon Justice Dolapo Funlola Akinsanya Nigeria and Lagos State has lost a justice of historic stature. Hon. Justice Dolapo Funlola Akinsanya will always be remember as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice. A former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu aptly described Hon Justice Dolapo Akinsanya as “one of the heroines of the present democracy in Nigeria for the courageous judgement she delivered against the legality...

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