Author: Deji Okegbile

PETER OZODO @ 70: A PIONEER OF CHARISMATIC MISSIONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.

PETER OZODO @ 70: A PIONEER OF CHARISMATIC MISSIONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.

Posted by | Apr 7, 2018 | , , |

The secular world we live in has little but temporary place for the eternal just as the eternal which will last forever has no place for the temporary materialistic and secular world. It therefore requires courage, zeal and unfaltering devotion of spirit, soul, mind and heart to Jesus to be a missionary in the secular and materialistic world and especially in the most Muslim dominated Northern Nigeria. Dr Peter Ozodo, a pioneer and still active missionary with others lost every bit of their temporal comforts but never let their Christian faith go in vain but, ‘with a clear mandate...

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TRIBUTE TO SIR ADEOLA OLUFON: A WORTHY PILLAR IN WESLEY CATHEDRAL, OLOWOGBOWO

TRIBUTE TO SIR ADEOLA OLUFON: A WORTHY PILLAR IN WESLEY CATHEDRAL, OLOWOGBOWO

Posted by | Apr 5, 2018 | |

I join my entire Wesley Cathedral, Olowogbowo family in Lagos to celebrate the transition of Sir Adeola Olufon, a man of integrity. The Methodist hymn by Charles Wesley, ‘Uphold me Saviour, or I fall, O reach me out thy gracious hand. Only on thee for help I call, Only by faith on thee I stand’ (MHB 478) summarised the physical, professional, marital, and spiritual life of Sir Adeola Olufon, a reputable Real Estate Surveyor and Valuer. Born, almost 70 years ago, Sir Olufon attended and graduated from the University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife) Nigeria with Bachelor’s Degree, Estate Management...

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MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr, ‘Apostle of Nonviolence’: 50 YEARS AFTER  HIS ASSASSINATION

MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr, ‘Apostle of Nonviolence’: 50 YEARS AFTER  HIS ASSASSINATION

Posted by | Apr 3, 2018 | , , , |

“I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” – Martin Luther King Jr Fifty years ago, April 4, 1968, a leap year, a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. 50 years after, the assassination still tragically reverberates...

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THE OUTCOME OF RESURRECTION: HOPE AND ACTION FOR A CRYING WORLD (MARY)

THE OUTCOME OF RESURRECTION: HOPE AND ACTION FOR A CRYING WORLD (MARY)

Posted by | Apr 1, 2018 | , , , |

Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. “He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying.” – Matt 28:5-6 Theologically, without Calvary, Bethlehem would be in vain hence, the short distance between Bethlehem and Calvary summons us to take into account the eternal consequence of the death of Jesus born in Bethlehem. Talking about Jesus’ birth at Bethlehem without appropriating the essence of his crucifixion at Calvary promotes the commercialisation and secularisation of Christianity. The Psalm for Easter...

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Remembering Charles Wesley and Ikoli Harcourt Whyte: Catalysts of Evangelical Hymns and Our Calling.

Remembering Charles Wesley and Ikoli Harcourt Whyte: Catalysts of Evangelical Hymns and Our Calling.

Posted by | Mar 29, 2018 | , , |

St Augustine aptly describe a hymn as, “a song with praise of God,” and ‘to praise God is the high calling of man.’ What the hymns of Charles Wesley are to the Wesleyan Methodism inspires and resonates with the spirituality of Ikoli Harcourt Whyte’s hymns to Primitive Methodism in Nigeria. The Rev. Dr Lord Leslie Griffiths, the former Superintendent Minister of Wesley’s Chapel, London in one of his writings, Charles Wesley: A Treasury of Theology in Song, provides us some important clue to hymns of the Evangelical Revival during the great Whitsuntide of 1738 and its expansion to other nations,...

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