Month: September 2018

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They say we are infidels

THEY SAY WE ARE INFIDELS tells the gripping story of thousands of Syrian and Iraqi Christians choosing to live true to their identity as followers of Christ in the face of unimaginable hardship and even death threats.

Author Belz offers no armchair reporting on these harrowing events, as most part of the narrative is based on eye witness account and frequent interactions with victims whom she has grown to know and love. Little wonder both empathy and literary competence came through beautifully in this masterful piece. Continue reading “They say we are infidels”

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What soil type are you?

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Growing up, I remember my father having handy proverbs to precisely drive home just about any point. He would effortlessly reach into his repertoire of Nigerian (Yoruba), English and French sayings and come up with the perfect expression that gave weight to the message he was trying to pass across. Never mind that some of those sayings were lost on me back in the day, but the older I got, the better I appreciated his penchant for good ol’ wisdom expressed in pithy little sayings. To a far greater degree, much more can be said of Jesus, who skilfully used parables to teach great truths.

One of such parables is the focus of today’s blog post. An account so familiar, one could easily miss its import – yes, you guessed right – it’s The parable of the sower! Continue reading “What soil type are you?”

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Run to win

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If you had to choose between owning a car or a house, I wonder what your choice would be. Assuming no constraints of pressing life circumstances that inevitably limit an individual’s choice to one and not the other, the average person will choose on the basis of either a good sense of financial judgement, or the lack of it. Apart from the luxuries of owning a car or a house, there is the underlying dynamics of two broad financial categories at play – assets and liabilities. Being no finance guru, I will not dare to delve into unfamiliar territory, or belabour the point beyond necessity! Continue reading “Run to win”

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God in the wasteland (quote)

Whilst on break this week, I thought to share this quote that I came across a short while ago. Worth turning over in the quiet of our hearts as we consider how much of a reality the weight of God’s glory is in our lives.

“It is one of the defining marks of our time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God’s existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers’ sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out to the periphery of our secularized life.… Weightlessness tells us nothing about God but everything about ourselves, about our condition, about our psychological disposition to exclude God from our reality.”

David Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1994), 88, 90.

Thanks for reading!

Sike Osinuga.

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