You are a brother. When you got to your place of primary assignment somewhere in Port Harcourt, you vowed to serve God and obey all his commands but barely two months into your youth service, Cecilia moved into your apartment. You had met her few weeks after you arrived, at the supermarket just down your …
Waiting is hard, people. What makes it seem so difficult is the connection it has with our desires. What do I mean? If you do not desire something, there will not be any anticipation in your heart for it. We lose patience and allow worry to settle in our minds only on issues that matter …
In my last post on the lessons from Galatians, I announced that Galatians 1:8,9 would be the center for discussion this week but I changed my mind. I want to jump quickly to a verse in chapter 2 and later return to chapter 1. What lesson am I sharing today? It’s from a verse I …
Thomas is the youth president of my fellowship. I once had a crush on him but somehow it disappeared and we became very close friends. When he proposed to a sister in the ushering department, I knew. When she agreed to his proposal, I was the first person he told. There was rarely any step …
Recently, one of my teens reached out to me on WhatsApp. ‘Can we go back to the days we read the scriptures together?’ I smiled, knowing how he looked forward to the evenings when we talked about the chapter we had read for the day. But the cares of this life just sucked that away. …
People take a break from their daily schedules for different reasons. Some do it to reflect on how far they’ve gone with their goals, others see it as an opportunity to rebound and strategize, while some consider it a time to generate new ideas. For whatever reason people carve out time to stay away from …
Life. Sometimes, the ride is smooth and at other times we find ourselves at the bottom rung of the ladder and we wonder if we will ever see any visible progress. Each day is saddled with its own challenges. There are unexpected circumstances, dreams hoped for, longings unreached and pains tugging at our hearts. Constantly …
Many times when I sit under a preacher and he says, ‘And God told me…’ or, ‘I heard God clearly when He said…’ I wonder how this communication happens. Does God speak in a loud and forceful manner? Why was He not speaking to me? Was something wrong with me? Are these people special in …
If you have not worked in Lagos before, you may not understand how difficult it is for Christians to maintain a spiritual walk with God in that busy city. I still remember when I first got a job there. I had waited for close to a year searching for a job and one day, I …
Oga Gbenga hit me on my right cheek, then on the left, and right, and left again. I staggered and fell to my knees in the small, slightly-lit room where we were, my eye fixed on the heavily built policeman in a stinking over-sized black uniform. His breath reeked of alcohol. I longed to strangle …