Author: Deji Okegbile

JESUS, both human and God: The unique birth and baby.

JESUS, both human and God: The unique birth and baby.

Posted by | Dec 26, 2019 | |

From the unique birth came the unique baby. The baby is unique with reference to the three names he was given. In Bible times it was the meaning of names that was highly significant. A child was given a name that showed its importance, or what parents hoped for the future of the child. The three names given to this unique baby show us what is at the heart of the real Christianity and Christmas. Let us briefly look and meditate on the three names. First, he is called Immanuel which is Hebrew for ‘God is with us.’  He...

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CHRISTMAS – A Living Reality

CHRISTMAS – A Living Reality

Posted by | Dec 26, 2019 | , |

Our familiarity with the Christmas story sometimes makes us forget about the difficult circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth.  John’s Christmas story is abstract and philosophical. Luke invites we who wrap ourselves blankets of comfortable familiarity that seldom looks beyond our own families or welfare to enlarge our vision of God’s purposes, and to join God in the movement to a renewed world (Luke 2). Luke and Mary lived in the shadow of the “Romans, they knew the thrones of the powerful and “the humiliation of the slave,”  Let us recall that Jesus was born in a stable. The animals might...

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JOSEPH, A MODEL FOR THE CHURCH AND LEADERSHIP REPOSITIONING.

JOSEPH, A MODEL FOR THE CHURCH AND LEADERSHIP REPOSITIONING.

Posted by | Dec 23, 2019 | , |

The Fourth Sunday of Advent is not just the last Sunday in the season of preparation for celebrating the first advent of Jesus (coming). It is also in anticipating the Second Advent of Jesus (second coming) especially in ‘a truly secular society, in which men and women live their lives beneath empty heavens and expect to be recycled rather than resurrected, there is no solid moral foundation for good and evil.’ In an age when ‘Christianity fades further and further into our civilization’s rear-view mirror, many intelligent atheists are beginning to realise that the Enlightenment may have only achieved...

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Living Advent: Beyond the 21st Century Transactional Christianity

Living Advent: Beyond the 21st Century Transactional Christianity

Posted by | Dec 16, 2019 | |

The God I find in the pages of the Bible cannot be redefined or forced into a box. The God I read about in the 66 books and 1,189 chapters of the Bible cannot be pinned down by human logic. Living Advent is about missional Christianity, a witnessing life of surrender to God. This is in contrast to a transactional Christianity with the expectation that God must conform to our popular culture and ‘notions of how He should behave, who He should bless and how, and what He should do to reward us for honouring our end of the deal.’...

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Sir Ogala Osoka @70, a Methodist Knight, an Insurance Icon: A Boardroom Professor (BP).

Sir Ogala Osoka @70, a Methodist Knight, an Insurance Icon: A Boardroom Professor (BP).

Posted by | Dec 3, 2019 | |

I met Sir Ogala Osoka two weeks ago during the second anniversary of the Nigerian Fellowship, Upper Tooting Methodist Church, London, after over 20 years, in 1999 at the Methodist Ministers’ Housing Committee meeting in Wesley House, Marina, Lagos. Sir Ogala in his humble characteristic came to me after the processional hymn and said, “Deji, I am proud of you. That was a powerful sermon. I will surely let the prelate know.” Still looking younger as I used to know him, I hugged him and we later had the unbeatable Nigerian jolof rice and fish together. No apology to...

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