Author: Deji Okegbile

As Abraham with Residency in Sodom: Escape from a Foretaste of the Universal Judgement to come.

As Abraham with Residency in Sodom: Escape from a Foretaste of the Universal Judgement to come.

Posted by | Jul 29, 2019 | , , , |

In Genesis chapter 18 we read about three travellers towards Sodom and accompanied by Abraham. God was ready to be just, for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Beyond the use of Sodom and Gomorrah as fearful examples of divine judgement … Jude 7 claims that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was on account of their sexual immorality.’ Beyond the guarded conversations between the Lord, the angels and Abraham, the Lord includes Abraham in the divine plan. Abraham as a friend of God and members of the divine council persuades God to stay His Hand on behalf of...

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PRAYERS AND HOPES FOR BORIS JOHNSON AND UNITED KINGDOM.

PRAYERS AND HOPES FOR BORIS JOHNSON AND UNITED KINGDOM.

Posted by | Jul 25, 2019 | , , |

I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one” – (Ezek 22:30). I believe God is calling us as Christians in the United Kingdom to learn from the words of Prophet Ezekiel and lift up our nation in such a time as this with all its favour and faults before God’s throne. I believe God is calling us as a nation to total spiritual reawakening and any feeble attempt to repair...

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The Famine of “One Thing.” Lessons from Apollo 11 Holy Communion @ 50.

The Famine of “One Thing.” Lessons from Apollo 11 Holy Communion @ 50.

Posted by | Jul 22, 2019 | , , |

Over 600 million people around the world watched the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. for the first time walked on the Moon. Apollo 11 Holy Communion on July 20, 1969 provides us a missional reflection on how to overcome the famine of “One Thing,” that is, famine of hearing God’s Word. We read in Amos about the connexion between sinful times and sorrowful times. Prophet Amos made reference to the ruin through the vision of “basket of summer-fruit.” Prophet Amos also point us to the connexion between sinful...

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Amos in the 21st century pulpits: The parable and ‘the risk of preaching at best half a gospel.’

Amos in the 21st century pulpits: The parable and ‘the risk of preaching at best half a gospel.’

Posted by | Jul 14, 2019 | , , , |

The Old Testament reading from the book of Amos provides us a reflection between ministry as a vocation and ministry as an occupation. Amos from a background of pastoral and agricultural life was ‘super sensitive’ ‘on one hand to the glory and majesty of God’s transcendent holiness, and on the other to the inhuman sinfulness of man.’ Amos’s ministry as a vocation showed a marked contrast with Amaziah’s high priest maintenance ministry as an occupation (Amos 7:14). Amos’s vocation ‘is much more uncomfortable and dangerous: to “Go, prophesy to my people Israel,” and this is in contrast to his...

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Archbishop Uwadi @ 80, the Pioneer Archbishop of Umuahia: His ‘Bi-episcopal’ role and legacy of service above self.

Archbishop Uwadi @ 80, the Pioneer Archbishop of Umuahia: His ‘Bi-episcopal’ role and legacy of service above self.

Posted by | Jul 11, 2019 | , |

Though it’s almost 8 years since His Grace Most Rev Dr Rogers Onuwabughichi Uwadi who hailed form Mbaise, the largest clan in Imo State passed on, his legacy lives on. When I was in Nigeria with the Cliff College Distance Learning programme, I visited Archbishop Uwadi at his Bishop’s court in 2009 in the company of Very Rev Drs Chinonyerem Ekebuisi and Evans Onyeama to conduct an interview on Methodist episcopacy as part for my post graduate studies in United Kingdom. Archbishop Uwadi, a student of Patriarch Professor Bolaji Idowu belonged to the class of well refined, erudite historian...

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