Exhortation

My dad saw his business as a means of sharing his faith. Every time he met with people to help them with their investments, he ended each meeting by sharing his faith and giving his clients one of his favorite devotional books, a Gospel tract or a Bible. He was often invited to speak at […]

In the book of Acts, Luke commended the Berean Christians for their quest for truth, using the Word of God as a standard. He remarked that the Bereans were more noble than the Thessalonians because they were willing to hear the Gospel and eager to search the scriptures for the veracity of what Apostle Paul

A friend of mine, whom I taught in Bible College and who now serves as pastor of a church, was driving through an intersection one day and his little 3 or 4-year-old son was in the car with him. He did not realize that the car door on the passenger side was not secured tightly,

The crown of thorns was put upon His head, not gently but roughly. Many thorns — perhaps a dozen or more, up to one-and-a-half inches long were jabbed into His scalp, producing such serious wounds that trickles of blood spurted out and ran into His hair and beard, matting both in dark red. The spikes

G-D provided Yom Kippur as an annual reminder of the temporary nature of man’s best attempt at providing a covering for his sins. Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, or covering. You can read more about it in Leviticus 23. On this day, once a year, the high priest would offer a special offering

The very first sentence in the introduction to The New International Biblical Commentary says, “Deuteronomy has been aptly described as the heartbeat of the Old Testament. Feel the pulse of Deuteronomy, and you are in touch with the life and rhythm of the entire Hebrew Bible.” The New Testament contains eighty-six quotations from Deuteronomy, scattered

I have always wondered why Apostle Peter said that the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. In my mind, I thought if a lion is going to roar and announce its presence, all the preys would be alerted and run! This “stupid lion” would catch nothing, obvious. So did

In my company, when we need to hire someone to come and work for us, we put an ad in the newspaper. Many respond. They have to pass different tests according to the position available. We will choose the one that we believe to be best equipped for the job. Yet, we don’t do this

Because of our pagan background, we Nigerians have an inbred insight into the authority that the spiritual has over the natural. The overwhelming influence of spiritual power is well understood in all aspects of life. Herein lies the need for Nigerians to seek spiritual intervention in virtually everything that we do. Win a battle in

The second ruling spirit that has sought to hinder the spread of the gospel in the southern region of Nigeria is the spirit of witchcraft. Witchcraft has been in existence in these communities for a long time. Through our ministry experience, we have discovered that many people enter into witchcraft deliberately. Their stated purpose is