Author: Deji Okegbile

SEE WHAT JESUS SEES: Stop mistaking lies for the truth.

“There is a lament rising in Gilead, and it will not quiet for some time.” With modern communications and in such an emotional, corrupt, divisive, and spiritually exhausting period, there has never been a time in human history when it was possible to communicate the gospel as effectively as it is today. In our present troubling context and systemic evil that threaten to bring us to ruins, it is easy to despair in the face of Brexit, in California where thousands of acres of land are burning and from massive wildfires. Many are starving in the shadow of relentless war,...

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Celebrating Archbishop Stephen: An ‘Ecumenical Envoy.’

The retirement of His Grace, Most Rev Michael Kehinde Stephen, Methodist Archbishop of Ibadan and a former Secretary of Conference, Methodist Church Nigeria will mark the end of an era – an era that has been significant in Methodist episcopacy and ecumenical communities. Archbishop Stephen, a figure of ecumenical importance provides in huge abundance into Nigerian Methodist episcopacy a needed legacy, a touch of humanising, a touch of deflating, and a touch of the scent of reality. It is a special opportunity to honour, thank, pay tribute, and say farewell to an ecumenical archbishop and a father, Most Rev...

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Back to the Bible: For right perspective in life

“My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small” – John Wesley, from the Journal: “June 5, 1766 The Church is called to a renewing mission and evangelism to see lives changed by immersion in the Word of God and by developing right perspective in life. The Bible consistently warns us that this world will not last forever. Jesus said “Heaven and earth will pass away” (Matt 24:35). Jesus never left us without a pointer to the future. Jesus’ statement was not only in the context of end times...

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Re-membering @100: Beyond Armistice or Veterans Day

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction….The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” – Martin Luther King Jr.   War has not just been history but a part of many peoples lives. The two World Wars of the 20th Century were not a consequence of great movements or tides,...

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Vision for Reforming Saints and Souls.

Today is All Souls Day. On 31 October 1517, a monk named Martin Luther walked to a church in the German town of Wittenberg and nailed a document – his 95 theses – to its wooden doors, lighting the fuse of the Reformation. The Reformers emerged to correct the decay in the church as the pillar and foundation of truth, hence some scholars argued that it was a challenge to the Papacy centuries of compromise and abuse. Luther’s theses and protest against the official teaching and practice of the Church in Germany was a call to the church to...

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