We nee to Re-imagine. Like Starcomms would say : 'We speak your language'. We just need to reinvent new ways to communicate to the present day youths, workers and leaders, in the language of this age. Everybody knows that, you'll say. But are we all not just powerless now? Who has succeeded in communicating the whole truth in the language of our times? While we confess our weakness and powerlessness,we should not stop trying and praying to the Holy Spirit, who alone can truly create and recreate. Recreation simply means, working and catching fun at the same time; but to arrive at this, we must be educated, and to be truly educated, we must pass through the sufferings of life.
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The Risk of Education
Send
forth Your Spirit and they shall be created...'. Unlike "the Jews who seek after
signs,and the Greeks who seek after 'wisdom', we preach a
crucified Christ....".
I hate poverty, and my greatest passion is to
destroy it, and- like one Nobel laureate puts it-to send it to the museum.
But in place of 'Jews' we have in the
majority today, Capitalistic Religions which exalt money, and go by 'The
customer is always right', preaching what members would like to hear.
On the other hand , the 'Greeks' today
are Dogmatic and Presumptuous Scientism which does not see a truth
outside that which is reasoned and tested around its sphere; from these hails the source
of all incarnated technologies which stifle our minds.
A 'crucified Christ' is not easily come
by.A crucified Christ is Eductainment. It is where creativity
begins, and only a mind that is not crippled by the powers that be, as
dictated by Capitalistic Religions or Dogmatic Scientism could arrive at
lasting creativity, such that we can only reach by passing through 'The Road Less Traveled'. I don't like suffering,but there is no
other way to arrive at education, only through discipline, dedication,
integrity and hard work can a man be truly taught. That is what I believe stifles our society: corruption, lies,lawlessness,mediocrit
We nee to Re-imagine. Like Starcomms would say : 'We speak your language'. We just need to reinvent new ways to communicate to the present day youths, workers and leaders, in the language of this age. Everybody knows that, you'll say. But are we all not just powerless now? Who has succeeded in communicating the whole truth in the language of our times? While we confess our weakness and powerlessness,we should not stop trying and praying to the Holy Spirit, who alone can truly create and recreate. Recreation simply means, working and catching fun at the same time; but to arrive at this, we must be educated, and to be truly educated, we must pass through the sufferings of life.
We nee to Re-imagine. Like Starcomms would say : 'We speak your language'. We just need to reinvent new ways to communicate to the present day youths, workers and leaders, in the language of this age. Everybody knows that, you'll say. But are we all not just powerless now? Who has succeeded in communicating the whole truth in the language of our times? While we confess our weakness and powerlessness,we should not stop trying and praying to the Holy Spirit, who alone can truly create and recreate. Recreation simply means, working and catching fun at the same time; but to arrive at this, we must be educated, and to be truly educated, we must pass through the sufferings of life.
Sunday, 20 May 2012
lessons to learn from the Chelsea saga:
1) Go ahead no matter what. God has not finished with you yet. When the chips are down and everyone says you are useless & worthless, it is then time to know that glory is not by power or by might!
2)Without a followership dt is ready to support a leader, it is much more difficult to progress. ( AVB)
3)Emotional intelligence is a greater leadership trait than analytical skills ( Matteo & AVB)
4) It is d right mix of old & new with appropriate leadership dt brings out champions.( Chelsea FC)
5)It is a great opportunity for progress wn all eyes are off you & you are written off.
6)The more entrenched habits are d more difficult dy are to change, it is much easier to manage positively our bad habits than to seek to cut them radically .( AVB & Dmatteo)
7)Don't give up on your ambition, it is when you least think of it that your star shines d more ( Champions league title)
8) Do not be quick to change your winning strategy( Dmatteo & defensive game)
9)There is something called destiny, no matter what, wn u are marked for success, you are marked!
10)Humility pays, it is when Chelsea fans stopped d bragging dt dy won 2 big braces .
11)Do not be afraid to profess your beliefs in public, it assures your victory( Drogba & sign of d cross)
12) God is everywhere & in everything, don't just watch sports for its fun only . See God!
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Between The Good Shepherd and Corporate Leadership
The study of MBA is the most desirous in the corporate and business world today and concepts like 'corporate vision','change','emotional intelligence', 'social responsibility',' ethics' are some of the 'ABC's' of MBA.These teachings are nothing short of christian messages in a secular language. The study of MBA has gradually developed into an even more important branch of study called Leadership. Proponents of the study of Leadership have unanimously analyzed that without deep spiritual development it would be difficult to develop strategic vision and achieve organizational growth.
At this juncture, the corporate leadership seem to be 'confused' about which spirituality to actually adopt. Eastern spirituality has been of particular interest for these leaders while western monastic spirituality is also on the rise, but a great lot of these business leaders have gone deep into diabolic occultic spiritualities. It is in this that the corporate leadership have not come to terms about the decision to adopt any spirituality, and this is how it affects me and you, who work directly or indirectly with this secular organizations and her leaderships.
The challenge of our Christianity is to supply for the leadership that is often very lacking, delusive and confusing in the corporate world, and this task is not an easy one because the church herself suffers from the scars bequeathed on her from the confusion borne out of corporate leadership.This responsibility of leadership is so great that very few would like to look the challenge in the face and the contentment of the parallelism between church and state seem to be on the rise, even though it is just very apparent, from faith's perspective, that the model is not working
Leadership entails great responsibility, and it is this responsibility that we shy away from and a confused secular world, in spite of her delusions are leading growth, a growth that is ephemeral. The great Recession is an example of how very weak and fragile the model we build our existence on are.
One of my national heroes is Umar Yaradua. He looked the challenge in the face, and he, a Moslem, adopted one of the often neglected slogans of the corporate world, which incidentally was that which was assumed by the prophets for Christ: Servant Leadership. Umar's government was lacklustered and entrenched in controversies, but i really and actually believe Yaradua lived a fulfilled life and gave his life for the progress of the nation.
In Yoruba land there is a title called 'Aare Ona Kakanfo', a kind of war generalisimo. There has been 14 of them in Yoruba history,it was said that the Aare has been created to eventually be a victim for the preservation of the Yoruba nation. All the 14 have died in war and crisis and outside their lands. The last was MKO Abiola, and since he died noone has had the audacity to accept such a title anymore. Scary ,hm?
The Good Shepherd sunday is a call to leadership, and even though these 2 examples are not Christians, they are such that live in our living history, and the issue of their death seem to be so disconnected with its actual purpose.Leadership has to be less and less bureaucratic and autocratic.Leadership has its source in spirituality,and the highest form of leadership assumes a great responsibility ,not of power, but in the face of extreme responsibility,of being the victim - alive or dead- of that which you really care about. This applies in the family, in corporate organizations, in our nations and in our lives.Of this sort of life does growth springs from, not from any skill, strategy or dialogue.
Happy good Shepherd Sunday!
At this juncture, the corporate leadership seem to be 'confused' about which spirituality to actually adopt. Eastern spirituality has been of particular interest for these leaders while western monastic spirituality is also on the rise, but a great lot of these business leaders have gone deep into diabolic occultic spiritualities. It is in this that the corporate leadership have not come to terms about the decision to adopt any spirituality, and this is how it affects me and you, who work directly or indirectly with this secular organizations and her leaderships.
The challenge of our Christianity is to supply for the leadership that is often very lacking, delusive and confusing in the corporate world, and this task is not an easy one because the church herself suffers from the scars bequeathed on her from the confusion borne out of corporate leadership.This responsibility of leadership is so great that very few would like to look the challenge in the face and the contentment of the parallelism between church and state seem to be on the rise, even though it is just very apparent, from faith's perspective, that the model is not working
Leadership entails great responsibility, and it is this responsibility that we shy away from and a confused secular world, in spite of her delusions are leading growth, a growth that is ephemeral. The great Recession is an example of how very weak and fragile the model we build our existence on are.
One of my national heroes is Umar Yaradua. He looked the challenge in the face, and he, a Moslem, adopted one of the often neglected slogans of the corporate world, which incidentally was that which was assumed by the prophets for Christ: Servant Leadership. Umar's government was lacklustered and entrenched in controversies, but i really and actually believe Yaradua lived a fulfilled life and gave his life for the progress of the nation.
In Yoruba land there is a title called 'Aare Ona Kakanfo', a kind of war generalisimo. There has been 14 of them in Yoruba history,it was said that the Aare has been created to eventually be a victim for the preservation of the Yoruba nation. All the 14 have died in war and crisis and outside their lands. The last was MKO Abiola, and since he died noone has had the audacity to accept such a title anymore. Scary ,hm?
The Good Shepherd sunday is a call to leadership, and even though these 2 examples are not Christians, they are such that live in our living history, and the issue of their death seem to be so disconnected with its actual purpose.Leadership has to be less and less bureaucratic and autocratic.Leadership has its source in spirituality,and the highest form of leadership assumes a great responsibility ,not of power, but in the face of extreme responsibility,of being the victim - alive or dead- of that which you really care about. This applies in the family, in corporate organizations, in our nations and in our lives.Of this sort of life does growth springs from, not from any skill, strategy or dialogue.
Happy good Shepherd Sunday!
Monday, 19 March 2012
Surely, Goodness and Mercy!
My capaity for judgement is flawed. Where will i be: heaven, purgatory, hell? I wouldnt bother my head about that, as the factors which i would be prone to using is evidently inarpropriate, and the result can easily lead to my presumption or despair.
The capacity of my humanity to make this jugement and other judgement is utterly insufficient . I cannot tell of His judgement or where i shall be, but i can surely tell of His mercy. Mercy is His part of the covenant. What proves that He loves us is that while we were yet sinners, He died for us. This mercy is real, now and continous.
I cannot even tell of my position towards my destiny, but what i know is that it can only get better. Mercy can never be reduced and it is always positive. The 'yoyo' of life may be flinging back and forth, but i know it is moving, and moving forward only.
Mercy is a state in which you see the perfect orderliness of your life, even in the midst of woes and calamities, in blindness and sorrows, in agonies and pains, you see it daily, instantly, you see the essence and positivity of your destiny, you see the Meaning and Reason behind it: Christ our Lord!
What then shall seperate us from this mercy, from this great love of Christ, since water finds its level and nature harbours a vacuum?
Karma only takes its turn in the environment of a faith that is not positive. Where then is a positive faith that could spare us from the effect of karma, that which creation and the cosmos obey?This faith could only be found in the Covenant: the new and eternal covenant of which Christ takes full responsibility. Covenant of God is nothing but His mercy, the mercy promised to our fathers, to Abraham and to his sons forever, could only find its perfect fulfilment in the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the new and eternal covenant , shed for us and for ALL! The blood is there, it is only up to us to make use of this mercy without being either scrupulous or presumptous.
The whole laws of the cosmos and its elements does not affect this Factor. My faults, errors and sins does nothing to shake it. For me, heaven, hell, purgatory matters little when i see that the whole creation and cosmos happens as a reference to me, because of me, and for my prosperity!
What matters is not where i go, but my assurance and trust about the irreducibility and positivity of mercy. I shall not be dismayed, life can only get better, anyhow you look at it.The problem lies, not in the state in which i am, the problem lies in my attempt to judge mercy. Mercy lies outside the scope of negative judgement.The orderliness of Mercy is astonishingly perfect and Her vision is extremely positive.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow us, all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the heart of the Lord, forever and ever . Amen!
The capacity of my humanity to make this jugement and other judgement is utterly insufficient . I cannot tell of His judgement or where i shall be, but i can surely tell of His mercy. Mercy is His part of the covenant. What proves that He loves us is that while we were yet sinners, He died for us. This mercy is real, now and continous.
I cannot even tell of my position towards my destiny, but what i know is that it can only get better. Mercy can never be reduced and it is always positive. The 'yoyo' of life may be flinging back and forth, but i know it is moving, and moving forward only.
Mercy is a state in which you see the perfect orderliness of your life, even in the midst of woes and calamities, in blindness and sorrows, in agonies and pains, you see it daily, instantly, you see the essence and positivity of your destiny, you see the Meaning and Reason behind it: Christ our Lord!
What then shall seperate us from this mercy, from this great love of Christ, since water finds its level and nature harbours a vacuum?
Karma only takes its turn in the environment of a faith that is not positive. Where then is a positive faith that could spare us from the effect of karma, that which creation and the cosmos obey?This faith could only be found in the Covenant: the new and eternal covenant of which Christ takes full responsibility. Covenant of God is nothing but His mercy, the mercy promised to our fathers, to Abraham and to his sons forever, could only find its perfect fulfilment in the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the new and eternal covenant , shed for us and for ALL! The blood is there, it is only up to us to make use of this mercy without being either scrupulous or presumptous.
The whole laws of the cosmos and its elements does not affect this Factor. My faults, errors and sins does nothing to shake it. For me, heaven, hell, purgatory matters little when i see that the whole creation and cosmos happens as a reference to me, because of me, and for my prosperity!
What matters is not where i go, but my assurance and trust about the irreducibility and positivity of mercy. I shall not be dismayed, life can only get better, anyhow you look at it.The problem lies, not in the state in which i am, the problem lies in my attempt to judge mercy. Mercy lies outside the scope of negative judgement.The orderliness of Mercy is astonishingly perfect and Her vision is extremely positive.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow us, all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the heart of the Lord, forever and ever . Amen!
Monday, 12 March 2012
From death to life!
Deal with lustful looks in public to prevent pornography in private.
Deal with pornography to prevent fornication.
Deal with fornication to prevent adultery.
Deal with adultery to prevent divorce.
Deal with divorce to save your children.
Deal with your children to prevent cyclic poverty.
Deal with poverty to prevent war and unrest.
Deal with war and unrest to prevent death!
Deal with death to know the truth.
Know the truth to be liberated.
Be liberated to live.
Live to make others live!
From the beginning of death to the meaning of life!
Deal with pornography to prevent fornication.
Deal with fornication to prevent adultery.
Deal with adultery to prevent divorce.
Deal with divorce to save your children.
Deal with your children to prevent cyclic poverty.
Deal with poverty to prevent war and unrest.
Deal with war and unrest to prevent death!
Deal with death to know the truth.
Know the truth to be liberated.
Be liberated to live.
Live to make others live!
From the beginning of death to the meaning of life!
Monday, 27 February 2012
Between The coin And The Host : The Ultimate Exorcism!
He was almost -or can i say,he was actually- made manifest, His influence on humanity and power against evil was that great that His kingship was made manifest to all: he rode on a donkey to Jerusalem, and He went to the temple to perform what I call, the ultimate exorcism:His radical purging of the temple off the ultimate evil: money, and to think the greatest evil lies at the hearth of the temple! It sits at the 'holy of holies', it is the abormination of desolation seated in Jerusalem which has prevented Isreal from recognising the Messiah. At Palm sunday , they did recognise Him as Messiah, but the level of recognition was very myopic, for they still remained at the level of earthly kingship who is to deliver them from the power of Rome. What made this perception myopic was what Christ went into the temple to radically purge out: money.
Christ provoked money to a duel , He knew that, before evil and poverty could be defeated, money needs to be conquered, the duel between the coin and the Host actually took place and this is its drama :
After the event of the temple,(that is, His driving the marketers from the temple) money felt very slighted and waited for its revenge.And Christ knew it is in its nature to revenge.If it is no little wonder that the greatest evil lies in the heart of the holy of holies, what when we see that its messenger lies in the heart of Christ followers: Judas Iscariot!
The price was 30 pieces of silver, taken from the temple cofers.
And we have to meditate more on the scourging at the Pillar, hell was let loose then, money made sure that Christ paid to the last farthing, as a revenge for His action of scourging it in the temple, and if Christ's intention was to ultimately remove money from the temple so that people could see who He really was, Money's aim was to totally exterminate Christ from the earth so that its kingdom would be perpetually established.
Judas repented. But his repentance was similar to the belief of the Jews as the Messiah: not entrenched. He was deppressed, it was a possesive repentance. Money made him return it back to the temple where it was deeply entrenched, but it had 'moved', stagnancy is its virtue, and for it to move against 'Movement', the exorcism was completed.Judas committed suicide and money was banished into the field of the blood for strangers. The abomination of desolation had been disposessed and forever. Exorcism of evil, mammon has been performed to the root core by Christ. The temple is free. Because of the desire for vegeance of money, it lost its place in the temple.
Christ provoked the devil through violence and won it through humility. We need to know that , sometimes to purge evil, violence has to be initiated to unseat it, but we cant win it at its game, we need to return to non violence and gentility to quench it completely, that it can not master.
After its banishment, Christ total and complete seal on the temple and His perpetual reign was accomplished through the shedding of His blood on the cross. Mammon can return no more.
From time immemorial until now, through the quest for authority and power, money goes out to kill people using some Judases within humanity. Money kills, but that has always been its greatest undoings, because the more it kills the children of God, the more the temple , the symbol of Divine power is taken from it, and the greater the children of God become and are made manifest, and the more the kingdom of God draws nearer.
The root of all evil is money, and its love is its tool.Money, epitomised as narcism, selfishness and egocentry, is the premival serpent, the apocalyptic dragon, the abomination of desolation. The most authentic decision in the quest to remove poverty and bring forth freedom is the willingness to conquer money and root out its love!
Christ provoked money to a duel , He knew that, before evil and poverty could be defeated, money needs to be conquered, the duel between the coin and the Host actually took place and this is its drama :
After the event of the temple,(that is, His driving the marketers from the temple) money felt very slighted and waited for its revenge.And Christ knew it is in its nature to revenge.If it is no little wonder that the greatest evil lies in the heart of the holy of holies, what when we see that its messenger lies in the heart of Christ followers: Judas Iscariot!
The price was 30 pieces of silver, taken from the temple cofers.
And we have to meditate more on the scourging at the Pillar, hell was let loose then, money made sure that Christ paid to the last farthing, as a revenge for His action of scourging it in the temple, and if Christ's intention was to ultimately remove money from the temple so that people could see who He really was, Money's aim was to totally exterminate Christ from the earth so that its kingdom would be perpetually established.
Judas repented. But his repentance was similar to the belief of the Jews as the Messiah: not entrenched. He was deppressed, it was a possesive repentance. Money made him return it back to the temple where it was deeply entrenched, but it had 'moved', stagnancy is its virtue, and for it to move against 'Movement', the exorcism was completed.Judas committed suicide and money was banished into the field of the blood for strangers. The abomination of desolation had been disposessed and forever. Exorcism of evil, mammon has been performed to the root core by Christ. The temple is free. Because of the desire for vegeance of money, it lost its place in the temple.
Christ provoked the devil through violence and won it through humility. We need to know that , sometimes to purge evil, violence has to be initiated to unseat it, but we cant win it at its game, we need to return to non violence and gentility to quench it completely, that it can not master.
After its banishment, Christ total and complete seal on the temple and His perpetual reign was accomplished through the shedding of His blood on the cross. Mammon can return no more.
From time immemorial until now, through the quest for authority and power, money goes out to kill people using some Judases within humanity. Money kills, but that has always been its greatest undoings, because the more it kills the children of God, the more the temple , the symbol of Divine power is taken from it, and the greater the children of God become and are made manifest, and the more the kingdom of God draws nearer.
The root of all evil is money, and its love is its tool.Money, epitomised as narcism, selfishness and egocentry, is the premival serpent, the apocalyptic dragon, the abomination of desolation. The most authentic decision in the quest to remove poverty and bring forth freedom is the willingness to conquer money and root out its love!
Friday, 24 February 2012
The Law of Consevation of Energy: Between Sacrament & Science
The law of conservation of energy simply says that the total amount of energy in a system remains constant over time.The rejection, by Christians, of the sacraments and sacramental is what has resulted into what I call The Age of Matter: the enlightenment, science and the liberalization of reason. Science is unsustainable without faith. Without Faith, Awareness or Truth, as you may call it, the whole work of science would ultimately result in a calamitous destruction of the world, for the earth by structure essentially has as its constituents the sacraments and not matter, matter has essentially become sacrament through the death and resurrection of Christ. History has shown that matter on its own is not sustainable.Not until the world rediscover the mysteries of the sacraments would the world be saved, no matter the advancement of enlightenment, salvation of the world does not lie exclusively with science, rather it portends its destruction. So how do we rescue the situation? Science has made much progress devoid of faith while faith has lost much as a result of an abject rejection of the sacraments; it's a question of simple law of energy conservation. To save the world and move it forward, faith can only take back her lost energy from science through reason,and if there is any hope left at all for the world,faith has to employ reason to engage science in order to take back what belongs to her in all truth:when matter would live the truth and become the sacraments. The battle point between faith and science is reason!
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