Ibru Ecumenical Centre

‘We Learn Through The Qur’an That It Was The Grandmother Of Jesus That Named His Mother, Maryam, At Birth’ (Prof. Dawud O.S. Noibi, Executive Secretary/CEO Muslim Ummah of Southwest Nigeria, MUSWEN) NAMING of a child is a natural phenomenon and a necessity in life. Society will be in total confusion if one person can’t be…

Persevere When Facing Injustice (1)

PRESUMPTUOUSNESS is the father of stereotyping, of generalisation, of bias, and ultimately, of prejudice. All these are characteristics of ‘simplistic thinking’ - that ‘labour saving device’ that enables the intellectually lazy to avoid hard thinking, to jump to an a priori conclusion. Thus, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (1992) in his book Your Erroneous Zones opined…

THE President, Apostleship of Prayer League of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Lagos Archdiocese, Mr. Geoffrey Nebeolisa, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to come up with a plan for youths, in order to make them compete favourably with their counterparts in other parts of the world. At the 2015 Prayer Day for Nigeria in…

HE never dreamt of becoming a pastor or had the inkling of opening a church, because as a successful businessman then, he was quite comfortable. Even when it was obvious that God was calling him into the ministry, the late Apostle Gabriel Olusegun Oduyemi, a multimillionaire ran away for three years, the wife recounted. Rev.…

Traditionally, this collect for purity is usually a prayer said near the beginning of the Eucharis in most Anglican rites. It was part of the preparation prayer before the actual communion said by the Priest and Communicants. However, history had it that Thomas Cranmer translated this prayer from Latin into English and from there it…

THE President and founder of The Branch Ministries International, Lagos, Pastor Toyin Praise, has developed a formula called, Bible Technology, to solve leadership and life challenges. Briefing journalists, Pastor Praise disclosed that the formula is not a mechanical device, but a new insight into the word of God. He added that God gave him the…

IT is the Lord’s desire to teach us how to be blessed today, and to warn us of the destruction of sinners. From the above passage, the destiny of the righteous and the wicked are described. This teaches us that happiness is the ultimate reward for the righteous, while misery awaits sinners. If we can…

He neither subscribed to Islam nor Christianity. But decades ago, the prophetic insights of late Afro Juju maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, spawned the lyrics: “Pastor’s house na ‘im dey fine pass, my people dem dey stay for poor surroundings

HAVING received this knowledge, I knew that we have no right to criticise any church or religion in any way’ … Very special people with important missions have been placed in all countries, in all religions, in every station of life, that they might touch others’ (Betty J. Eadie, 1992)

THERE are precious promises we can never prove until we encounter some problems and pressures in life. There is a kind of sweet juice of the grapes of grace, which can only be pressed out by the hand of providence.

Let us now look at the vocal gifts of the Hoy Spirit. They are the gift of tongues, gift of interpretation of tongues and gift of prophecy.