Author: Deji Okegbile

The Church in a Nighttime: Good News for the Old Nicodemites.

The Church in a Nighttime: Good News for the Old Nicodemites.

Posted by | Mar 8, 2020 | , , |

Today’s readings from the Genesis 12 and the Gospel of John chapter 3 are our stories and they are more than just biblical stories about other people in a different place and time. The church, family and our nations’ journey of faith today suggests a journey through darkness and the need to come to Jesus in our nighttime for salvation and deliverance. The truth is that we all step into the nighttime of our lives ‘through a call from God, a crisis of faith, or the circumstances of our lives’ just as Abraham’s and Nicodemus’s stability and predictability of...

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LENT OF REMEMBERING – THIS MONTH IN 1945

LENT OF REMEMBERING – THIS MONTH IN 1945

Posted by | Mar 7, 2020 | |

On 14 February 1945, in the midst of war, Lent began in hope of repentance, ‘acknowledging the things we do that hurt ourselves and others, confessing our complicity in continued injustices, taking responsibility for the suffering that comes from our abuse of the gift of our freedom, and accepting our part in the destructiveness that threatens humanity itself and turns life to dust and ashes.’ Rather than repentance, the world engaged in reprisal and counterattack. Lent of Remembering this month in 1945, 75 years ago through the Chaplains echoed God’s words to Adam with a reminder to people as mortal, sinners,...

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The Family, Church, and Nations under Test: Following Jesus to Remain Faithful

The Family, Church, and Nations under Test: Following Jesus to Remain Faithful

Posted by | Mar 1, 2020 | |

The Old Testament and the Gospel reading for today on how Adam and Eve, and Jesus were put to test resonates with the temptation and state of the family, nations and Christian faith in terminal decline. The tempter chose to go through Eve to get to Adam the way he goes though the family and the Church to get at Jesus Christ bearing in mind that the temper’s plan throughout the Bible is to destroy Jesus. The gospel reading is set between the baptism of Jesus and the beginning of his public life just as the church is set...

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Joyful People, Joyful Church, Joyful Nations: The blessedness of keeping God’s laws.

Joyful People, Joyful Church, Joyful Nations: The blessedness of keeping God’s laws.

Posted by | Feb 17, 2020 | , |

The words of prophet Nehemiah which says, “The joy of the Lord is your strength,” points to joy as byproduct of the Christian faith rooted in trust in God (Neh 8:10). Everyone want to be joyful and happy but we are living in an imperfect post-truth world where there is more sin, unbelief, sadness, sorrow and pain hence, many are searching for means to be joyful in the wrong ways and in the wrong places. The Bible says there are certain conditions and circumstances that are key to a joyful and blessed life, church and nation. There is true...

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Ghana Methodist Chaplaincy Men’s Fellowship Breakfast meeting. Theme: The Role of Men in the Church (being salt and light) Today.

Ghana Methodist Chaplaincy Men’s Fellowship Breakfast meeting. Theme: The Role of Men in the Church (being salt and light) Today.

Posted by | Feb 16, 2020 | , , |

1. Greetings to the Men’s Fellowship, Ghana Methodist Chaplaincy, UK. At the centre of the Chaplaincy is the desire to live and express our Christian faith. I will like to reflect on the role of men in the Church today in the context of the aims of the Chaplaincy: ‘to heed the calling of the universal Christian Church to respond to the gospel of God’s love in Jesus Christ and to live out its discipleship in worship and mission through the various Ghanaian languages, and will seek to help its members to grow and learn in harmony  as Christians...

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