EVANGEL AFRICA

Imagine your 10-year-old daughter, still carrying that bright future that you have envisioned for her. However, what if all that bliss goes up in smoke one night after a group of grown men knock on your door and demand to have your child daughter. They tell you that one of the men has come to have her as his wife and you have no say in that because they are welding AK47 machine guns. With a bleeding heart, you hand in your princess, ignoring the cries of your wife as the armed men carry her kicking and screaming into the dark. Even worse, you wake up tomorrow to see a television broadcast of a group of young girls, inside a cage, being paraded in a pickup truck, apparently accused of rebelling against Allah, awaiting the worst of all fates – being burned to death. Unfortunately, your daughter is among them. Just in case you didn't know, this is a true story that happened in 2016 in Iraq. There were 19 of those Yazidi girls. Just one among many atrocious crimes committed under the b...

Perhaps I could have titled this, “How do I know God’s will for my life?” There is nothing I have emphasized more than the sufficiency of Scripture. That is, your Bible contains everything you need for your salvation, godly living and everything else you need in this life and the world to come. Nonetheless, I am aware that someone might object that there are some things that we face in our lives that are outside the Bible, for example, the Scriptures do not directly deal with some critical life decisions such as what career should I choose, should I get married now or next year, who should I marry between Janet and Julia? What colour should I paint my room? Should I look for another job or not? Those kinds of things: how can you know God’s will for your life? This question has troubled even ministers themselves until they have written books, and made sermons about “how to hear God’s voice.” According to them, God speaks to us every time, all you have to do is to tune into the right cha...

I guess I should begin by defining terms. In fact, the original title of this post was, “Cessationism is not what you think it is.” That is because I have often been embarrassed by the ignorance of those who claim to know what cessationism is, particularly those from the opposite end. My hope is that today we all get a clear understanding of this once and for all. Come the future we will not be guilty of being false witness about other believers. What is not cessationism We have all heard the famous teaching that a cessationist is the one who does not believe in the Holy Spirit; one who denies the gifts of the Spirit, or perhaps that person who believes that God no longer does miracles. That, beloved, is not true – not even close! Cessationism (from the word cease) is the belief that the gifts of the Spirit are still operational in the Church; that God still does miracles, however, it is only the “revelatory gifts” that have ended and only the “Apostolic miraculous gifts” that are ...

How blessed it is when the couple walks down that church aisle. For once, all creation comes to a standstill as they all gather to witness these two souls that have decided to spend a life till death do us part – a perfect match! Well, let the wedding day pass with its memories, let the guests travel back to where they came from. Give the newlyweds a chance to live together for two months, six, one year, five years. And before you know it, one of them discovers that this partner that they swore to eternity is not what they expected them to be. They have shed their outer skin to reveal some sinister behaviour or perhaps a habit you would not even wish on your worst enemy. S/he has become a problematic spouse. It’s my observation that a large number of Christian couples successfully display a happy marriage to the rest of the world, yet the walls of their bedrooms testify of something different, if not terrible, for lack of a better word. My goal today is to acknowledge those who find t...

Needless to say that this is not a political platform, instead, it is strictly where believers gather to discuss the Biblical perspective of the issues relating to our daily lives. Immigration is a permanent (or temporal) movement of people from a different culture/region/ country to another one. Reasons for such movements may include drought, war or deliberate invasion. Let's look at them in detail. Drought-induced immigration I believe this is the most common migration we see in Scripture. We have examples like Ruth and family, who were forced to migrate to the land of Moab in search of better living conditions ( Ruth 1:1 ). Other Examples include Abraham ( Gen 12:10 ), Isaac ( Gen 26:1 ) and many others. I am also sure that there are real life examples in the vicinity of your location. War/persecution-induced migratio n Our Lord Jesus’s flight to Egypt is a good example of people running away from their countries as a result of persecution or some kind of life-threatening danger...

This, also is one of those issues that has been the subject of disagreement among the brethren. Some believe that ministers of the Gospel are servants of God who must be willing to serve on voluntary service; they must not be too concerned about the things of this world because God will reward all their efforts in the world to come. Others, however, are of the opinion that what Pastors do, deserves a full reward on this earth, at best: a free house, a car and a 6 figure salary. So, which is which? As always, such things we need to think about them with our Bibles open. Therein, we will learn that both the above viewpoints are flawed – ‘extreme’ is the right word. I mean, as much as it is true that ministers of the Gospel will get their full reward at the resurrection of the saints, that does not mean that we should not care about their earthly expenses. On the opposite end, as much as I agree that a servant of the Lord must be taken care of, however, I also know that there is something...