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The Ordinary Christian Life
August 16, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Life • Tags: book review, life •
There is a great problem. It is a problem with the idea of being ordinary. It has been noticed for some time now that adjectives that emphasis greatness have found their way into the common lexicon, and when we hear them, we have definitely turned our heads to see what has caused the latest discussion […]
Charting Jesus
July 31, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Life • Tags: Jesus •
I typed Jesus into the WolframAlpha app today just to see what it would come up with. It generated some information that spoke about Jesus from a reported story perspective like, seen by most Christians as the son of God, traditionally believed by Christians to have been born of a virgin and to have risen […]
Standing Firm
June 30, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Bible, Life, Standing Firm, Thoughts • Tags: Biblical Wisdom, God, Grace of God, learning •
The Story of Mordecai and Haman in the Book of Esther is instructive in a number of ways but one thing that stands out above most is the value of standing firm in what one believes. This is just a short article focused on that one thingOne with tongue in cheek could say it was […]
An Angel of the Lord told me
September 30, 2017 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life •
I am always amused when I hear people speak in conversations, and in two or three sentences they utter a few “God laid it on my heart” or “God told me” to do one thing or another. The things they say God told them to do are things that sometimes are altruistic in the interest […]