Saturday, 04 Sep, 2010
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and The webmaster of Biblepraise Fellowship Online. British by birth, He currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria with wife Maris and their children; Praise, Stephanie and Precious. He works in the IT department of a bank. Formerly an active singer, he still sings occasionally and speaks at invited forums. He presently serves in as Church Secretary in his local church and is also a Sunday School teacher. He is the Moderator/Editor of Biblepraise Newsletter.
Gay vicar, Colin Coward aged 65, is set to enter into civil partnership with his 23 year-old Nigerian ‘boyfriend’, Bobby Egbele.
The vicar’s announcement has stunned his superiors in the church and thrown them into confusion because the couple intends to receive ‘blessing’ in church after tying the knot.
I saw a news item on television over the weekend which set me thinking. From what I gathered, an HIV infected woman had caught the attention of the Nigerian president, probably in one of the HIV related events.
Anyway, it seemed that the woman needed financial assistance to start up a trade in order to sustain her family. She had skills in dress making but did not have needed equipment and facilities to start. She however continued to work hard on whatever she could do with her very limited resources.
Guilt. Every one has felt it at one time or the other. Each and every one of us has an inbuilt nature called the conscience. It’s like a shadow that follows us about, watching our every conduct and quick to speak out once we cross the line of sin. The resultant effect is sin.
When God created Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, their consciences had no job to do. It was totally unemployed. Guilt did not even exist. Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God.
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Announcing on her Facebook page that she was doing it “in the name of Christ,” author Anne Rice told fans last week that she was giving up Christianity.
If you are a Christian, take offense at her public remark, and are prepared to write her off as either someone who must not have been a believer in the first place or just another angry celebrity denouncing Jesus, hold on for a moment.
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Give me a heart that seeks after you,
that longs to be nearer to you,
That puts you above my greatest joy
and follows wherever you lead
“……..In integrity of heart and innocency of hands I have done this” (Gen 20:5)
I looked up the meaning of integrity in the dictionary and came up with the following;
1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
2. The state of being unimpaired; soundness
3. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
(Luke 11:9 & 10)
God’s never too busy to answer our prayer,
no matter how small it may be.
He’s willing and able our burdens to bear;
all our cares laid on Him sets us free.
God wants for His children to grow every day
more confident, trusting, reliant.
His ear is on every small thing that we say:
In His will, with our prayers He’s compliant.
I used to love to play in the woods near my home when I was a boy. I especially enjoyed sitting by a certain crystal clear mountain stream that flowed musically down the side of a hill.
Green moss covered the rocks and made a comfortable seat on either side of it and when I would bend down I could see my own smiling face reflected back at me. I used to love taking a sip of its pure, sweet water. It always tasted like a drink from Heaven.
I grew up not really having a very close relationship with my father. Not that he wasn’t a caring father – he did the usual things fathers do; ensure that our basic needs were met, once in a while taking my siblings and I out and of course pay for our education.
I was still young when my parents broke up and I had to live with my mother in spite of my dad’s overtures for me to come and stay with him. This period in time effectively denied me the father-figure I needed at this critical period of my life.
I have recently been reading the book of Chronicles and have been captivated by the history of the dynasties of biblical Israel.
Starting from Saul the first king of Israel, we read about God, deciding of His own will, the characteristics of the man that should be king. He did not pick a man from the rich and influential families in Israel but rather, He picked a man from the smallest family in the smallest tribe in Israel. (1 Sam 9:21)