THE ENGINEER WHO NEVER LEFT
“Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 He was a Scottish engineer, not a preacher by training, studied mechanics, mathematics, drafting in Edinburgh and Berlin, and by every natural measure was headed towards a comfortable career designing machinery in Europe. Then, in late 1875, […]
THE MAN WHO WON ALMOST NO ONE
“I am ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” 2 Timothy 4:6 He was ten years old when he started work in a Scottish cotton mill, fourteen hours a day, six days a week, sharing a single tenement room with his parents and siblings and twenty-three other families in […]
THE PROPHET THE CHURCH ITSELF LOCKED AWAY
“A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.” Matthew 13:57 He was born around 1882 in Obonoma, in the heart of the Niger Delta, and grew up in Bakana, inside the very Niger Delta Pastorate that Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther had built decades earlier, which we already […]
THE BISHOP THEY NEVER LET HIM BE
“How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.” Exodus 10:3 James Johnson’s parents were carried into slavery during the wars that tore through Yorubaland in the early 19th century which were the same wars that produced Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s story. A British anti-slavery patrol […]
WHO ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES & WHO ARE CHRISTIANS?
A group is not CHRISTIAN simply because they use the name “Jesus” or quote the Bible. A group is Christian only if they hold, belief and live by the principles of the TRUE BIBLICAL GOSPEL and the TRUE BIBLICAL CHRIST. In our generation, religious confusion has become so high and even decorated that we have […]
THE BELIEVING ISAAC (1)
Genesis 25:21 (AMP) “And Isaac prayed much to the Lord for his wife because she was unable to bear children; and the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife became pregnant.” Every situation in life demands that a Christian stays with God and trusts Him totally. Isaac was a man who believed in the […]