Reading Alistair Begg, I was captivated by his description of the Gospel. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 15:1, he says,  “The gospel provides us with firm footing. Even when everything else around us is shaking, we always have a place to stand. Even when temptation is fierce, we never need to retreat. What was it that empowered Martin…

The mission became clear over 2000 years ago when Jesus came (John 1:14) and declared His manifesto in the Synagogue when the Scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him (Luke 4:18–19). Jesus’ declaration affirms a purposeful mission that started with God the Father and was accomplished by God the Son. John reveals the purpose…

“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22), I sat down one day, and I thought, why does God allow us to have seasons? Part of God’s great design of this earth is seasons. We experience wet and dry seasons, the typical four seasons…

Recently, Tobi Amusan of Nigeria celebrates winning the women’s 100-meter hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, July 24, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon. Amusan finished in a wind-aided 12.06 seconds to win Nigeria’s first-ever gold at the world championships against a field that included seven of the top 10 women in the world.…

Jesus says to his disciples, let us do the works of God (John 9:4). He reveals the nature of his work in the Synagogue when the Scroll of the prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 61:1–2) was handed to Him. Jesus, in his manifesto, declares, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to…

In his sermon on July 31, 2022, Pastor Barry Jeffries reminds me and the congregation (CBC) in 1 Pater 5:1–11 that a call to pastoral ministry is a call to God. He points from the Scripture what constitutes the pastor’s call to ministry. The first is a call to shepherd the flock (v.2). The second is to…

Many Centuries ago, God’s gift for humanity was wrapped in Genesis 3:15, where God says, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” The Proto-Evangelion or Protoevangelium reveals God’s gift for people, including the Norfolk…

Understanding the brevity of life, one would see the importance of the gospel of Jesus Christ and its urgency in a context dominated by spiritual darkness. Horatius Bonar, a hymn writer composes that human life is “fading away like the stars of the morning, losing their light in the glorious sun. Thus would we pass from the…

As I deeply reflect on the words of apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:5–9, I humbly realize that “a tree does not make a forest.”  Paul says, “What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God…