Tag: Life
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The love of life is evil – By Femi Aribisala
Is it good to go to school; get a good job; build your own house and have lots of money? Not according to Jesus. These things are highly valued by men. But Jesus teaches that: “What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.” (Luke 16:15).
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The counterfeit life – By Femi Aribisala
In 2015, Joel Osteen, Pastor of Lakewood Church, USA, wrote a motivational book that became an international best-seller entitled: “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential.”
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A Life in a Day at 70 – By Chidi Amuta
Tomorrow, I shall be 70. I call it the 70th checkpoint. A friend calls it climbing to the 7th floor even though I do not know how many floors there are. It would be at exactly at 9 am tomorrow. It was at that hour on that rainy July day at Aba General Hospital that…
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Life is fragile; handle yours with care – By Francis Ewherido
In the last one week, I heard of some deaths that made me to be circumspect. Two of the people died as a result of overindulgence. We always joke that “something must kill a man” and laugh over it. But I also grew up to hear my mother say that “the stick that you see…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The blueprint for your life
God is the Master planner. He declares the end of a matter and then sets things in motion to start running for the fulfilment of His plan. Our lives have already been pre-planned by Him. Romans 8:28-30 declares: “and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those…
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Salvation from life – By Femi Aribisala
A Good Samaritan rushed a friend suffering from appendicitis to the hospital. They got there in the nick of time. His appendix had already ruptured. The doctor said that they had to operate right away, and they promptly wheeled him into the theatre.
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I no longer enjoy life anymore – Dantata
The Chairman of Dantata Group of Companies, Aminu Alhassan Dantata, 91, has revealed that he no longer enjoys life and he is waiting to depart this world in good faith. The business mogul said this when he received the Vice Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima.
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Is Life Really Unfair? – By Fr. Valentine Anaweokhai
In the face of crisis, misfortune, and calamity, people sometimes quip, ‘life is not fair’. The implication is that ‘life’ is to blame for whatever may have happened or befallen a person in life. ‘Life’ in this sense, is personified. However, to conclude that life is unfair, has both philosophical and theological connotations. Life, no…
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Will There Still Be Life Before 2023? – By Chidi Amuta
The period between now and May 2023 is Nigeria’s season of expectations and grave anxiety. Nigerians are expectant that the forthcoming general election will enable them as an electorate to renew our national leadership through the ritual of voting. On the other hand, the perilous state of the state has raised the level of anxiety…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Navigating life’s transitions
Transition is the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. Nature abhors vacuum because life is a lively process of becoming. Change is therefore one thing you should expect if you are alive. So, in life, we are always going through one transition or the other. Some major transitions …