Category: Prose

Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Repentance

Repentance – Francis Mkwapatira and Isidore Chinaemelum Uwanuakwa

The word ‘Repentance’ is often used in the Christian faith. The term refers to changing one’s mind and life towards God. It is the action or process of returning from misdeeds or moral shortcomings to a life of obedience to God. According to the Bridgeway Bible Dictionary, the act of repentance translates into conversion when…
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Turning Point – Aroh Eberechukwu Benedicta

Look at you now, you are worthless. After all your church frequenting, the assistant prayer band leader and musical director position, this is what you have to show for it? Shame. You think God will look at you now? You are worthless before Him. Don’t even stress yourself saying anything because He won’t answer. See…
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Repentance

Repentance – Asukuruk Blessing

I moved into my new apartment a couple of weeks ago, but due to the recent workload at the office—especially with the managing director’s position vacant, which I’ve been eager to secure—all hands needed to be on deck. Yet, as they say, old habits die hard. Still, I found myself pondering how my relationship with…
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Beyond Conditions

Beyond Conditions – Adekemi Immanuela Elemuren

The beginning of a new day for me was more like the beginning of a new life, it had been a long endless night and though my anxiety wasn’t ready for the day, my expectations wanted it as fast as now. Immediately after the morning prayer, I took a quick cold bath, dressed up in…
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Love Sincerely – Sunday Ikpang

My dad, Pastor Mambo Simeon is a clergy in a Pentecostal church. He is a dedicated man of God who believes in what he preaches. He taught us the way of God and reminded us also of his words; from the bible, everyday as his family and as a church. I will tell you this…
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You Are What You Hear

You Are What You Hear – Michael Austin

There is no better description of faith than the one given to us in the Bible. When we read the Letter to the Hebrews 11:1, it tells us that “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”. Faith makes us see things with the eyes of the mind; it…
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Revival

How to Miss a Revival – Gospel Okoro

In the days when men’s knees are buried in the earth with sincerity, their faces glued with tears and prayers to the cross, and their hearts holding a prism of blood and a liquid desire for the move of God in a generation, we can miss the revival we seek when it eventually comes. Sometimes,…
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Damp Pillows in April by Gamelihle Ncube

Love illuminates all the beauty inside of us It was the darkest, loneliest time of my existence – March to April 2020. I was caged with the rest of the world, isolated in our little hamlets, cut off from neighbours and strangers. Petrified by the grim statistics, and to think that a type of flu…
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In the Beginning there was Love by Onwubiko Okem Precious

I walked into the mall hiding a 9mm R17 Glock in the folds of my leather jacket and for the umpteenth time, I silently berated myself for what was undoubtedly a colossally moronic choice but I really didn’t have any other, did I? Jenny was sick and the doctors wouldn’t operate on her unless I…
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