Author: Deji Okegbile

OLOSU OF OSU, LOJA OMOLADE ADEYOKUNNU, 30 Years after: Simple but stylish.

OLOSU OF OSU, LOJA OMOLADE ADEYOKUNNU, 30 Years after: Simple but stylish.

Posted by | Jun 11, 2019 | , |

On this day, thirty years ago, 11th June, 1989, Loja Omolade Adeyokunnu, the third Loja of Osu, the Headquarter, Atakumosa West Local Government, Osun State ‘answered the imperative call of death, having spent seventeen years on the throne.’ The history of Osu as a community ‘is a conglomerate of separately founded homesteads (Apoles) or camps by warriors and hunters mostly of Ijesa in origin.’ Dire Goke Arimoro, in one of his books, Osu from the Cradle explained that many of these homesteads had been founded in the late 17th and 18th centuries. According to him, ‘the amalgamation of the...

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Beware of Dry-Eye Leadership: Time to Weep Between the Porch and the Altar.

Beware of Dry-Eye Leadership: Time to Weep Between the Porch and the Altar.

Posted by | May 27, 2019 | , |

“Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare Thy people O Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is your God?” – Joel 2:17 Solomon wrote, “There is time to laugh and time to weep.”  The reflection is that, the Christian life is one of tears, ‘a life of a broken heart.’ There is crying in leadership. Many may see crying as a sign of emotional instability or lack of self-control. Jesus...

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Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Very Rev Prof Konyin Ajayi (SAN): Learned Silk @ 60

Posted by | May 25, 2019 | , , |

“If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants” – Sir Isaac Newton. Very Rev Professor Konyinsola Ajayi SAN, the Managing Partner of Olaniwun Ajayi Legal Practitioner (OALP) born on Monday 25th May, 1959 is the third child of a former Commissioner for Health in the defunct western region of Nigeria, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi of Isara Remo. Professor Ajayi, a transaction lawyer described by peers as “a lawyer’s of lawyer,” who took Silk in 2000 is the minister in charge, Emmanuel Chapel Methodist Church, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos. Professor Ajayi is a mentor and...

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METHODISM FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: ‘Warning to Methodists: … You cannot alter it except to mar it’

METHODISM FOR THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: ‘Warning to Methodists: … You cannot alter it except to mar it’

Posted by | May 24, 2019 | , , , , |

The British Academy announced at the eve of this year’s Wesley’s Day celebration that “Theology and Religious Studies risk disappearing from our universities.” The new report, the first comprehensive analysis of Theology and Religious Studies provision in the United Kingdom shows a steep decline in student numbers hence, the closure or reduction in size of several university theology departments. Religious Studies and Theological education are not only necessary component of a church planting strategy, they are renewing and equipping medium for healing of homes and marriages, universal church and national renewal, revival, and development. Wesley’s Day urges the necessity...

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WESLEY’S DAY, ONLY IN NAME? DECLINE IN METHODIST BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES.

WESLEY’S DAY, ONLY IN NAME? DECLINE IN METHODIST BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES.

Posted by | May 22, 2019 | , , , |

I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it is possible, in the nature of things, for any revival of true religion to continue long – John Wesley With the present rate of our general decline especially in conversion of souls, it is possible to say that Methodism salvation experience – Wesley’s Day exists in name only. Methodism as the religion of the Bible which is synonymous with scriptural Christianity was the outcome of the 18th century. The early Methodists practices stimulated and fostered the...

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