July 2024 - The Preacher's Diary

WHEN SAUL WAS KING…

July 26, 2024July 25, 2024 by The Preacher's Diary

And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king …

1 Chronicles 11:2.

A while ago, the streets had filled with excited singers and dancers celebrating a new king. Music and colours everywhere. The oil was still fresh upon his humble head. Congratulations poured in from distant lands. Everyone was on his side, except the notorious few, the “children of Belial,” but he had been too honoured to care (1 Samuel 10:27). Saul was that king.

David’s Epitaph (Part 2)

July 20, 2024 by The Preacher's Diary

9. The Marathon Convoys

To get the value of a foreign transaction, we would usually translate those costs into local currencies. How do we translate the value of David’s donations into contemporary currency?

David’s Epitaph (Part 1)

July 18, 2024 by The Preacher's Diary

Voices at the Grave

An epitaph is a brief inscription or statement on a tombstone, usually venerating the dead. Metaphorically, an epitaph may also be a short funeral speech or writing on the dead person. In Rome, at the grave of John Keats the English Romantic poet, it is written, “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” Martin Luther King Jr. was an African-American Baptist preacher martyred for freedom fighting. His grave is in Atlanta, Georgia, with these words ringing from the tombstone: “Free at last, free at last, / Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.” It came from one of his classic speeches, “I Have a Dream,” delivered at the mammoth march on Washinton.

IS GOD A POLITICIAN?

July 8, 2024July 7, 2024 by The Preacher's Diary

Religious Extremism?

Some Christians are persuaded that God is not a politician and does not get involved in politics or such human trivialities. They insist that it is entirely up to humans who rules them, and that it is ‘religious extremism’ to bring God or prayers and ‘spirits’ into political discourse. They envision God as a disinterested long grey-bearded grandfather, noise-proofed from juvenile distractions, who sits aloof at his quiet end of a restricted park engrossed with his creased and spectacled face half hidden behind the broad evening newspaper, while the children frolic loudly, pursued by their long sunset shadows at the other end of the family park. Okay, is politics an entirely natural affair, with the supernatural playing no part in it? The other side does not think so, and we shall soon hear what the Bible says on the matter.

A UNIQUE WRITERS WORKSHOP

September 7, 2024July 4, 2024 by The Preacher's Diary

THEME The Power of Punctuations and Effective Sentence Structures

DATE: Saturday, August 24, 2024

VENUE: The Conference Hall,
Graduate Business School,
St. John’s Campus, Aba Road,
Port Harcourt

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