#SV – Bread Alone!
It is not all about BREAD. The Word of God is everything! Continue reading #SV – Bread Alone!
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Black Ash!
Today is Ash Wednesday! For Nigerian Christians, it is a beginning of a bitter Lenten Season. The ashes are black! We have known so much pain these days. So, it is a black Ash Wednesday! If the ash is to remind us of our mortality, and so, of the call to repentance, conversion and transformation, we now live in a state where we need not be reminded of our mortality. Death surrounds us! It stares us coldly right into the eyes! It dares us everyday! The blood that flows in our homes, cities, streets, communities and even forests has hardened … Continue reading Black Ash!
#SV – Tough Yoke
It is really not easy to follow Jesus no matter how beautiful his words sound. Following Jesus reverses the trend and expectations of the world. It puts one in the position of vulnerability and recaliberates that vulnerability as true power. I doubt if the world honors that option. It is even hard for most Christians to honor this option. It is a yoke to difficult to accept; a burden to heavy to bear. But here is the twist! Once we get to the point of accepting and bearing this yoke and burden, we encounter the liberating effect of Jesus’ option. … Continue reading #SV – Tough Yoke
#SV – Secret Wisdom
#SV – The Logic of Light
The Gospel about being light says only one thing every Christian: Go and shine in the world! And there is the silent question there: How? How are we supposed to shine? Here is the answer: Shine through your good works! Shine through your good actions! Shine through your good deeds! Then comes the caveat: Do not shine for yourself. Shine that God may be glorified through your good works. That’s it! Continue reading #SV – The Logic of Light
#SV – Behold, this Child!
A sign of contradiction! Isn’t that what we all are? Sometimes we are agents of good, at other times the agents of evil! We rise and we fall! We build and we destroy! We succeed and we fail! Well, in the case of Jesus, the message is that embracing Jesus and His words is to embrace life, love, joy, peace, resurrection and hope, while to reject Jesus is to abandon oneself to the forces of darkness, unforgiveness, unloved, strife and despair. Jesus is everything! Continue reading #SV – Behold, this Child!
Alongside One Another 