Author: Deji Okegbile

In a time and age when persecution of Christians reaches genocides level in some countries especially in China, Iran, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and some other countries, the church is marching on in a great springtime. It is even becoming dangerous to follow Jesus in the face of the seductions of today’s culture. The case of a street preacher who was handcuffed with his hands, behind his back and his Bible taken from him when he was arrested in north London is still fresh in our memory. He was later “de-arrested.” Satan’s three lines of attack is ‘to keep men...

“Blessed are those who have not seen and (yet) have believed.” The veracity and facticity of Jesus’ resurrection offers some terms of believing based on different experiences and evidence. On the night of Easter Sunday, Jesus appeared to the disciples, except Thomas, and stood among them in the Upper Room. He said to the ten, “Peace be to you,” and later showed them his nail-scarred hands and the place where the spear had pierced his side. Among the post-resurrection scenes, John points us to the importance and the speciality of the absence of Thomas in relations to terms and relationship between seeing...

For the word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God… it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save. those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles – 1 Cor 1:18-23. In the midst of the street protests that have rocked France for months, Notre-Dame Cathedral located directly in the centre of the city on a small island called Ile de la Cite...

The story of Palm Sunday (the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the story with the humble beast, the shouting crowds, the branches, the coats and cloaks spread like a carpet upon the road) is a big biblical deal that featured and has centre stage and pride of place in all four gospels. Scholars explained that ‘Palm Sunday is the day the followers of Jesus grew up, found their voices, summoned their courage, and assumed their role as witnesses to God’s will on earth as it is in heaven.’ Transfiguring Lent especially in the seductions of today’s culture point...