Category: Theology

Celebrating Pastor Oladele as the Newly Appointed President of CAC
Celebrating Pastor Oladele as the Newly Appointed President of CAC By: Deji Yesufu In the year 2008 the local church I used to attend here in the city of Ibadan invited this pastor to preach at its annual conference. When...

COVID-19 in the Bible
COVID-19 in the Bible By: Deji Yesufu January 2020 introduced a new normal to the world we live in. It was in this month, a year ago, when reports of the ravaging effect of a new disease, with roots in...

Making of a Truly Merry Christmas
Making of a Truly Merry Christmas By: Deji Yesufu Every Christmas the debate resumes regarding the biblical veracity of the holidays. Those who point to Christmas being a pagan celebrations have a solid argument. I however think that those who...

How to Preach a Sermon without the Gospel in it
How to Preach a Sermon without the Gospel in it By: Deji Yesufu When history will look back on the 21st Century, people are likely to name this century the age of pragmatism. In our day people are most concerned...

Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God III
Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God III By: Deji Yesufu Effective Praying I come now to the matter of the outcome of true praying. In his book “Perspective on Pentecost”, Richard B. Gaffin Jr. wrote: “The ‘secret’ of effective prayer...

Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God II
Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God II By: Deji Yesufu A Brief Introduction to the Subject of Prayer First, we must understand that we cannot pray beyond the theology we know. The more we know God, the more our prayers...

Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God I
Prayers: Casting our Burdens on God I By: Deji Yesufu Introduction I entered the year 2000 with a great burden: I needed to graduate from the University with a good grade. I was oscillating between third class and second class...

Why Do Christians Support Donald Trump?
Why Do Christians Support Donald Trump? By: Deji Yesufu I was in a discussion with an American friend of mine once. This gentleman is also pastor. He said this in passing: "... while we do not preach politics in the...

Funke Adejumo and the Sin of Simony
Funke Adejumo and the Sin of Simony By: Deji Yesufu (First published on Mouthpiece.com.ng in July, 2018) A few weeks ago the social media went agog with a short video clip of Rev. Funke Felix Adejumo collecting $1,000 from Church...

Reflections on Peter Uka’s Cessationism
Reflections on Peter Uka’s Cessationism By: Deji Yesufu Peter Uka and Oje Giwa-Amu entered into a debate on Cessationism on the 20th of August, 2020. By the close of the debate, it was clear that Peter’s opponent still had not...