We had the most fun in our neighbours' house- they had bicycles we could ride. They also had the television games and then the handheld Nintendo game. It was every child’s dream to own one. But there was a challenge: Their Dad had rules! We had such rules as you [...]
Read MoreI watched a bit of wrestling matches as a teenager. When two wrestlers are in the ring, the goal is always to weaken and then defeat the opponent. Without weakening the opponent, you cannot defeat him. You would see the wrestlers pin the opponent down while the official counts to [...]
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I did about eight months in a State University and I knew that every seed that my parents planted in me as regards the fear of the Lord was under intense attack. I was surrounded by various vices that could derail a teenager leaving home for the first time. In those eight months, I had the opportunity to drink alcohol, […]
Years ago, I walked up to my pastor after service to exchange greetings with him. At that same moment, a young girl also walked up to him. Pastor did not blink an eye at what she wore. I was already a bit shocked. The pastor said to her, “I heard you have gained admission into the University now”. She replied […]
I had sent a text message to a very important personality- a father in the faith. I knew he would either call back or send a message in return. My phone would most times be placed on silent mode. However, because I did not want to miss his response or his call, I increased the volume on my phone so […]
We were heading to the airport in a city in the South-South when Irewamiri pointed out an interesting scene- there were clothes spread out to dry on an electric cable. These were high capacity power cables. When I saw it, I said to her, “Definitely, there is no life or power in that cable. If there is power in that […]
The generator at home began to show interesting signs- it became so hard to pull. It respects only the man of the house. It also began to consume oil aggressively. We have to constantly refill the oil so we can get it running. One evening, it refused to come on despite all the aggressive pull. It struck me and I […]
I have been speaking to teenagers for the past fourteen years. This year when invitations to speak to Teenagers began to come, I was wondering when I would outgrow speaking to teenagers. Then the Holy Spirit reminded me of a real-life story: An old preacher returned from a preaching engagement and his friend asked him how things went. The preacher […]
Irewamiri gave me an amazing meal of pounded yam (the refined version called “poundo”) and vegetables. At a point, I knew that I had enough already. I said to her, “Darling, thanks for the meal. I am satisfied”. She responded that “Darling, don’t waste my food”. I had to explain to her that she made an amazing meal about 48 […]
In one of our decision-making meetings in the church council, we made a policy that our Children’s Church would not use things that the adult church is replacing. For instance, we would not pass on old drums; we will buy them new ones- that what exactly what we did. It is so easy to abandon children. In a lot of […]
I was away from home for a season when Irewamiri’s shared a testimony of divine protection. She had opened the window of the house for some breeze to come in. She later went to close the windows. Some moments later, she went to open the windows again and realised that when she was closing the window, she had crushed a […]
We were at a Pastor’s Conference. One of the guest speakers asked us a question: “How many of you are in Children’s Ministry?” Very few hands went up. She smiled and asked other questions: How many parents are here?How many uncles and aunts are here?How many of you have a child that is connected to you one way or the […]
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