My dear Friend, Big Brother, Angbian & Compatriot, When I got the message yesterday that you had left us, my first thought was: “My friend Mailafia will outlive Nigeria. We all will.” Perhaps because I was in the thick of studying through one of my favourite books in the Bible, Revelation of John of Patmos, Read More…
TEXT: Lamentations 3:22Luke 1:39-80 The prelude to Jesus’ coming is worth spending a little more time on. Because it fulfills so many prophecies. And because it is the greatest thing to have ever happened to mankind. GOD CAME DOWN TO EARTH. Take a moment and allow that to sink in. GOD. CAME. DOWN. TO. EARTH. Read More…
When one of your favourite pastors or leaders turns out to not be all you thought s/he was, it reminds you that God will expose us all in the end. Our secret lives matter. One of my favourite preachers, teachers and apologists, Ravi Zacharias was posthumously exposed last week as someone who took sexual advantage Read More…
TEXT: Luke 1:26-38; Matthew 12 :18-25 Six months after Elizabeth got pregnant, Mary, a young virgin from Nazareth was visited by Gabriel, the same angel that visited Zechariah. He gave her the news that she was going to be impregnated by the Holy Spirit. It was time for the Messiah to come – and God Read More…
Text: Luke 1:5-25 Picture this: You and your spouse are very old. Possibly in your 70s. Both from a priestly family. You have carefully obeyed all of God’s commands and regulations all your life. And in God’s eyes, you are a righteous couple. And you are childless. Because the wife is unable to conceive. Then Read More…
Text: Luke 1:5-38 A few months ago, we marked Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary. Many celebrated. Many did not. For various reasons. What relevance does this have for us as we re-learn Jesus? Last week, we looked at how some of the prophecies dating back from the fall of man in the Garden of Eden and Read More…
Text: Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:23b-38; Luke 1:26-35 Genealogies. Blah. Boring. You start reading these verses and you begin to doze off. Or do you? We said 24 verses but for the sake of seeing how these genealogies tie together, we will also look at who Jesus is according to the angel Gabriel. Matthew and Luke Read More…
Text: Mark 1:1a; Luke 1:1-4; John 1:1-18 The story of Jesus is Good News for all people – for all races, ages, nations. He is the Messiah ( Mashiach in Hebrew) – God’s Anointed One – Christos (Greek) – The Chosen One. The Son of God. (see Mark 1:1a). This was a momentous declaration from Read More…