Forty days of fasting.  Forty days of prayer.  Forty days of weakness and vulnerability?  The last person recorded in the Bible to have spent 40 days in a fast was Jesus (Matt 4:2), and at the end of the 40 days, he was exhausted and hungry, so the devil swooped in to tempt him. Big […]

Excellent (Even) in the Waiting – Part 1 One of my favourite stories in the Bible is the story of Joseph; not because he was a dreamer, not because he had a grace-grass-grace(again) story. No, I am fond of this story because Joseph was excellent, and the Bible’s record of his excellence always occurred in […]

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God’s people to live together in harmony”. (Ps 133:1) The journey from Akure to Ede was rough. This could partly be attributed to the bad road, the fumes of the bus that kept stinging my eyes and the fact that the driver kept stopping at every possible place […]

Climate is the average weather conditions in each location over a long period of time. One can therefore say that climate describes the amount of rainfall and the period of the year when it rains, the temperatures within a given period, and the level of sunshine of a geographical location. A deep understanding of the […]

Baptism is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and it is often referred to as the first of all the sacraments, given that it is the sacrament that makes an individual a Christian and a member of the Church. Without baptism, a person is unqualified to receive any other sacrament in the […]

Last week, we began the Doctrinal discussion on Baptism. And this leads us to the question- Who can be baptised?  Anyone, regardless of age who has not yet been baptised is qualified for baptism. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that, “Every person not yet baptised and only such a person is able to […]