Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you”, which implies that serving the Lord could be undesirable to certain people, and it could be the reason why certain people today don’t regard God in their lives, in their families and all that they do. Joshua then proceeded thus: “then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 (NIV) Listen to Podcast: Raising Godly Family in an Ungodly World …

All I am going to be sharing with you in this piece are from the word of God as it has to do with marriage and not some random idea from a marriage therapist or a marriage psychologist. As we have established earlier, we are looking at marriage from the perspective of God who is the original founder of the marriage institution. So, what the word of God says concerning marriage is the final authority as far as the marriage institution is concerned. Listen to Podcast: Six Biblical Principles of An Ideal Marriage God will not bend His word…

Conflict resolution and managing crisis effectively is an hallmark of excellent leadership. One of the characteristics of a good leader is foresight; which in this context, talks about the ability to see crisis or danger looming and to quickly avert it as much as possible. Listen to Podcast: How To Resolve Conflict and Manage Crisis in Marriage as a Leader The biggest challenge that many marriages face nowadays is evidenced in the inability of the couples to resolve conflicts and manage crisis in the marriage. You would hear phrases like “we went our separate ways due to irreconcilable differences.”…

Let us look at the concluding part of what we began in the first part of this series: The Perfect Marriage. Our focus in this second part is titled: Examining Christ And the Church as Our New Testament Marriage Model, and let us begin with Ephesians 5:31-33, a New Testament Scripture. The Bible says: “For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so…

This piece is partly related to our earthly marriages, but it is more related with our union with God. Everything that we know about marriage today, and all that we will still ever discover, began with God’s relationship with mankind. After God was done making man, he got to a point where God said in Genesis 2:18-24: “And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air,…

The constant dynamics in our world has once again brought to the fore the question: Who should be the leadership figure in the marriage? Issues like feminism, equal rights of both the male and the female gender have further heated up this debate. After all, some people would claim that God made man and woman equally and without disparity (Genesis 5:2), what then is it about this matter of leadership and submission that has been the bane of many marriages today? If there is no disparity, why couldn’t the woman also be the leader? But my assignment in this podcast…

There is a raging debate going on about the legality and the appropriateness of the newly enacted Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) law as it relates to religious institutions in Nigeria. A number of Pentecostal pastors and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have openly challenged the government on the inappropriateness of the law and deemed it as a deliberate means of scuffling religions institutions in the country. The new law, in summary; “empowers the Commission to suspend trustees of an association and appoint interim managers, preferably the registrar of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising…

The last couple of months has been a challenging one for a lot of people across the world, especially for leaders. The reason is because a number of adjustments needed to take place in the shortest period of time as a result of the Coronavirus Pandemic that has crippled many activities around the world. Listen to Podcast: Rethinking Leadership in Troubled Times: How Great Leaders Respond In Period of Unforeseen Crises For leaders, many of them needed to take some drastic decisions as to how to adjust to the realities of the pandemic so that their organizations or countries…

The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate contracted by –6.10 per cent (year-on-year) in real terms in the second quarter of the year (Q2 2020), according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The decline ends the three-year trend of low but positive real growth rates recorded since the 2016/17 recession, the statistical agency said Monday. According to Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report – Q2 2020 released by the NBS, the decline was largely attributable to significantly lower levels of both domestic and international economic activity during the quarter, which resulted from nationwide shutdown efforts aimed at containing the…

It is important for every believer to understand that the legal basis of our relationship with God is in the finished works of Christ Jesus. So, as much as it is good that people are taught on the subject of faith, on the subject of prayer, purity, sanctification, and everything that is needed for their spiritual growth, it is good that we bring people into the knowledge of Christ and let them understand it, what Christ had done on their behalf and accomplished. Before Christ came to accomplish this, we had no legal right to approach God or has that…