Saturday, 19 May, 2012
Steve Popoola is the editor of Biblepraise Newsletter and The founder of Biblepraise Fellowship Online. He lives in London where he works in the IT industry as a software developer. He has served in various capacities as Teacher, singer and writer in the body of Christ. He currently serves as assisting minister in his local church as well as helping out in the Music Ministry. He also speaks at invited chrurches/forums.
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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