No pastor wants to lead a church that is financially struggling. Limited funds mean you can do less ministry and reach less people – except your church is a different kind that doesn’t pay bills. Your church is a non-profit organization because it runs and operates on the offerings (free will donations) of its members. […]
Did they ever tell you that there was “no reason to worry”? Then someone has told you a lie. There will always be a reason to worry. Just like there will always be reason to lie, to steal or to cheat, but you refuse to do those despite the many ‘reasons’ to, in the same […]
I sat behind the taxi as the driver raced from the city of Port Harcourt heading for the airport. I wasn’t even sure I was going to catch my flight to Lagos that afternoon. I had just finished teaching one of the final sessions at a 3 day Leadership conference in Port Harcourt and had […]
Preamble We know that what Jesus came to do on earth was not to start a religion but to establish a Kingdom, basically a new pattern of living, with different sets of values and allegiance to a different authority. This is why when He was leaving He said “Go into the entire world and make […]
Recently, I was visiting with a friend in a city in North-Eastern Nigeria, and he was telling me of his experiences at work. He works for the state government and was seconded to an internationally funded project from his office. This project was to take them to various communities to embark on several water, sanitation […]
Many times I would drive into a fast food to buy a plate of food, and the piece of chicken on the plate alone would cost as much as N700. I would still buy it, eat and finish it in one sitting. Comon, it’s just lunch. Sometimes, I would buy my favourite yogurt which is […]
This evening, I sat looking at the family picture of a dear friend. We go a few years back together, back on campus I knew him to be quite influential in his own little circle. He had some music skills but did want to forfeit a corporate career for anything, not even music. Today, roughly 8 years […]
I am fully convinced that anyone who has gotten to the point of doubting the existence of God has truly lost his capacity to think. This is because everything around us and in us are screaming, shouting, pointing and showing the existence of one whom our minds cannot fully comprehend. And I think that’s the […]
In the last few weeks, I have found it extremely hard to close my eyes to and ignore some of the extreme realities that face me and sound through my phone on a daily basis. William Wilberforce is known to have said “after seeing all these, you can choose to look the other way, but […]
I happened to be at my wife’s office at lunchtime recently and we both decided to have lunch at this cool restaurant close to her office. Great meal it was by the way! We ordered dishes we don’t come by very easily. 45 minutes down the line, it was time to pay and I remember […]