by samuel on May 31st, 2012 for Issues on Faith
Tags: mind of God, The Bible
The Holy Bible
Volumes have been written out of it’s little volume, aspects of its teachings constitutes the research focus for several students, while many spend nearly a life time studying its pages. The quest for knowledge and solution to mankind’s endless challenges often drives us to the Bible. It is the basis of the Christian faith.
Huge cathedrals have been built to teach its doctrines and Bible schools abound. Indeed there must be something about the bible that makes it unequaled. In spite, or because of this, it has its share of controversy. Today there exist several denominations in the religious church that hold divergent views of the same portions of the Bible. Even amongst friends one verse would mean something different to each one, yet providing succor at inquisition to fill genuine spiritual voids in the heart.
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by samuel on April 7th, 2012 for Issues on Faith
Tags: leadership, sacrifice, The Word, Trinity
The Lord Jesus Christ
The season of Easter elicits solemn reflection by Christians across the globe about the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. A lot was unique about Him, from the mode of biological conception and on to His resurrection. His personal conduct and comportment in the society also made Him standout, and people who behaved like Him had to be designated Christians, Act 11:26. Today, as we commemorate His unparalleled act of resurrection, I am inspired to document essential lessons from the human aspects of the Lord Jesus Christ; the MAN Jesus, who like any other man today, was exposed to temptations Heb 4:15, got hungry Mar 11:12, was compassionate Mat 9:36 , wouldn’t hide his emotions to weep Joh 11:35 and even got skilled in a trade Mar 6:3 . Although surrounded by fierce enemies Joh 5:18, and passionate admirers Joh 11:2 alike, He didn’t lose focus of his divine mission to this planet. Indeed He couldn’t have just been killed. He actually came to die, and shame death by bodily resurrection.
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by samuel on December 12th, 2011 for Miscellaneous
Tags: December 2011
“Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” is a popular saying. But can’t value exist in its full worth without an external valuator? Most young women are often obsessed with concerns about their beauty. Businessmen have effectively collaborated with scientists to manufacture beauty diverse products, and even medical doctors have cashed in through cosmetic surgery. Facial beauty and physique have long become major issues for suitors. The concepts such as Beauty pageants lends credence to submissions that some people are more conclusively more beautiful than the others.
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by samuel on October 3rd, 2011 for Issues on Faith
Tags: deeperlife, kumuyi, kwelle
Pastor C. S. Kwelle
INTRODUCTION: A spiritual revolution or revival started in Nigeria immediately after the civil war 1967-1969. The horrors of the war with its attendant sorrows and suffering ignited men and women to hunger and seek after God. The reality of heaven and life beyond the grave dawned on many that witnessed the war. Churches, Christian fellowships and hitherto despised Scripture Union (SU) were filled with both young and old desiring to know more about God. Even in those parts of the country that did not see the war it was as if the Holy Ghost was poured down “upon all flesh”. More gospel and pentecostal groups started growing up everywhere. Hitherto, it had been the traditional colonial missionary churches like the Anglican Communion, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodists, Assemblies of God, Apostolic Faith etc. But indigenous church denominations began to spring forth. Men and women of God like late Archbishop Benson Idahosa , Bishop Oyedepo, Evangelist A. A Iyang, Bro. Jonathan Ombo Amakiri, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Apostle Okonny, Apostle Numbere, Rev. Mark Nwulu and several others began to be mightily used of God.
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by samuel on September 20th, 2011 for Miscellaneous, Politics
Tags: September 2011
When achievements end in themselves, they die with their achievers. For about 5 yrs since I first scrutinized this speech by a fellow Nigerian, my conviction has grown to fully assert that achievements can only best be used as tool to break-up other barriers, often times in the aid of an oppressed neighbour. What more nobility of heart is demonstrable, than the use of such rare once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as a Nobel lecture, to condemn injustice and racism drawing from one’s technical expertise in the literary profession, that the then apartheid South Africa be free.
Please savour with me Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Lecture delivered when I was little more than one year old, yet full of lessons for our present circumstance and lands where surreptitious discrimination still exist by way of tribalism, nepotism, favouritism, etc., in economic and political climes.
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by samuel on June 27th, 2011 for Politics
Tags: 2011 June, education, information technology, nigeria, wealth
With the inauguration of a new president in Nigeria last month, the promise of hope is quickly greeted with the numerous challenges that has held our nation underdeveloped. The endless list includes deficient power supply, poor health care system , security challenges, inadequate physical infrastructure and industries, corruption etc., all exacerbated by a large and growing population with attendant unemployment. Simple logic posits that all of the above can only be overcome by a team of prepared individuals, empowered with the right skills, determined beyond defeat, pursuing a clear vision. This Nigerian dream is surely achievable, but only when all Nigerians are active members of the combat team, whose grooming hinge on the presently ailing educational sector. As the new administration rolls out its agenda for improving this universal base on which all other sectors of the economy depend, one wishes to reflect on our educational fortunes, in a perspective that is scarcely considered.
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by samuel on May 7th, 2011 for Miscellaneous
Tags: activity
cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to
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by samuel on April 20th, 2011 for Issues on Faith, Politics
Tags: April 2011, new thinking, singapore
Olakunle Soriyan
Guest Article
In the late 90s, Silicon Valley, the haven of multi billion dollar IT companies, witnessed dramatic shows. The experience is a wakeup call to entrepreneurs and business executives of this century and beyond to make room for the arrival of a global economy driven by knowledge, technology and “dominance thinking” where superiority is determined by originality and innovation. Now, an African folktale spells out this way: Every morning, a gazelle walks and thinks, ‘to stay alive, I have to run faster than the fastest lion.’ This is always a significant incentive for gazelles to learn to run faster. But just over the hill, a lion realizes, ‘I have to run faster than the slowest gazelle otherwise I could go hungry’; meaning that even lions (if they get lazy and/or if gazelles get smarter) can starve; and so can great corporations and great
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by samuel on April 1st, 2011 for Politics
Tags: April 2011, elections, leadership, votes
Samuel Kwelle
As Nigerians go to general elections this month, apathy from many citizens is not unexpected, since results in the past i.e 1999, 2003, and 2007, have often created more doubts, than reflect the wishes of the majority voters. Numerous Court judgments that followed buttress this. But can folding our arms to any challenging situation of life yield one’s desired solution? No! The answer should be, since doing nothing should logically yield nothing. And worse in this case is the pending reality that all elective offices will certainly be occupied by an aspirant at the end of the exercise. Contrary to certain
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by samuel on March 1st, 2011 for Miscellaneous
Tags: activity
Are you in the top 2 % of intelligent people in the world? Try out the riddle below to find out!
There are no tricks, just pure logic so all the best. Don’t give up.
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