ETERNAL WORD OF LIFE MINISTRY (EWLM)

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Greed and selfishness are indicative of lack of faith in Divine Province, just as contentment demonstrates faith in God and in His ability to look after us. Jesus Christ teaches us today to ask and trust God for our daily bread. This will help us stay contented, fulfilled, and free from many sinful inclinations and tendencies. The desire to acquire and hoard resources for...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Whatever a person sows is what he/she shall reap. Today we're reminded that there shall always be a moment of reckoning; a time that each gets the appropriate rewards for his/her actions, inactions and words. As we continue with the electioneering process, God warns us today not to neglect to do that which is right, lawful and just. This is because the Nigerian people will...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. In the history of every human person or institution or nation, there is always a history-changing and history-making moment; a moment that comes with a paradigm shift. Now is the moment to do away with the yoke that has dominated your life before now for God Himself has chosen to visit you and do away with the yoke provided we accept to turn away from our sinful and wicked...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Lenten fast is beyond just being an annual ritual of staying away from food, meat and drinks for a period of time. It's rather a season of putting to death the evil and wicked tendencies and actual ungodly dispositions and activities in us in order to live out more effectively the virtues and values of the kingdom of God. Kindly listen to today's episode of my podcast for...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Our choices in life to a great degree colour what life becomes for us. If you desire the fullness of life you must consciously and intentionally make choices that promote life. Jesus Christ is the full manifestation of the Divine Life. It's only in Him that we find the fullness of life: life that never ends. To choose life then implies choosing the way of life of Jesus Chr...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. St. Augustine says that "our heart is restless until it rests in God." At Ash Wednesday God invites us to a life of rest, peace and fulfilment through reconciliation with Him. The flesh is but dust and shall certainly return to dust. The soul, which is the life force animating the body/flesh, shall return to God at the end of our earthly life. It's only when we're truly re...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Life will never be without distracting factors; some positive and some negative, some are pleasant while others are unpleasant. These notwithstanding, we must always stay faithful and focused if we must get the best out of life, fulfil our destiny and find peace in God. Despite all that life throws at you, stay faithful and focused always. Humiliating experiences often pre...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith cannot be nourished and sustained without the Word of God which is the source of faith. This is because faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of God (cf. Rom. 10:17). It's therefore the life lived in faith and guided by the Word of God that leads to true Wisdom. This is what brings order to our disordered w...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Indeed, without faith, it's impossible to please God. On the other hand, with faith it's not only possible to please God, it's possible to stay pleased in God. The faith we profess should birth a behavioural change in us that makes us more pleasing in the sight of God and more pleased living in God. The Christian faith does not call for passivity but faith-based activity-o...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. What does it profit you to continue in the lifestyle you're imbibing now and suffer rejection from God? Today God invites us to build ourselves up in the tower of virtue and humility rather than in pride and other vices. God is the maker and supreme ruler of the universe and all it contains. He alone has the power to save and destroy. Kindly listen to today's episode of my...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Jesus is the Christ; the Anointed one of God and the Saviour of the world. Jesus is not just a mere miracle worker. He is the Christ anointed at His baptism with the Holy Spirit to save humanity. We must relate with Him recognising Him firstly as Saviour through whom we are reconciled with God and thus made the children of God. Kindly listen to today's episode of my podcas...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. God raises for himself and humanity a remnant from Noah after the great flood. Similarly, Jesus calls us out of the village of unbelief, doubt and sins to give us sight; the sight of the life lived in the beauty of the glory of God and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. If we allow Jesus Christ to lead us we're sure of being led out of our doom, afflictions, misfortunes...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Who will be the saviour of this generation? Who will be the bearer of true Divine Love in this generation? Who will in concrete and practical terms be an agent of God's love in a generation torn apart by hate, greed, wickedness, conflict, abuse, oppression, injustice, corruption, impurity, immorality, rancour, blackmail, etc? Today we're called to be agents of God's love a...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. We live in a generation greatly characterised by toxins of all kinds. Beyond the toxins introduced into the atmosphere and society by industries, machines and equipment, human beings create even worse toxic societies through their way of life. By creating toxic societies we eliminate one another and by recognising in one another a brother/sister and treating one another as...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. In today's Gospel, Jesus Christ expressed compassion on the crowngathered to listen to His teaching. Out of compassion He was moved to address their need. The world of today is a crowd in dare need of compassion. We're specially invited today to join Jesus Christ in being compassionate in order to attend to the needs of our world of today. Be compassionate amidst all circu...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Many children of God today are suffering under different forms of veils that keep them away from experiencing the fullness of God's blessings for them or experiencing the full manifestation of their potentials. The worst of these veils is ignorance of the will of God. The removal of such veils frees us from any form of impairment and ailment that keeps us less than what Go...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. We're meant to be companions on the journey of Life and not competitors in the world. The world is not meant to be a place of contest for human beings where each struggles to grab all that's to be grabbed in a bid to outdo all others. We're created to complement one another at all levels and units of human society. Whereas unhealthy competition among people results in chao...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. We, as human beings, are finite beings and as such we're called to adopt the life of humility and readily submission, acceptance and carrying out the will of God. We're also divine to the extent that we share in the nature and essence of God. Though formed from dust, we draw our essence and existence from God. To this effect, we must use our human will and freedom in such...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Essentially speaking every human person shares in the image and likeness of God and as such we, as human beings without any exception, are one and equal in essence and our God given dominion over God's creation centres more on love and care for God's creation. We're therefore charged with the responsibility of continuously making the world more and more a "goood" place to...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. "But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we may receive full rights of sons [and daughters of God]." (GAL. 4:4-5). Indeed, Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world and the source of life, ordered world and peace, is constantly in our midst to change our world for good. Unfortunately, many hardly giv...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. All works a no play makes Jack a dull boy, they say. Jesus Christ himself recognising this fact and even more the need for contemplative life amidst the active life instructs his apostles in today's Gospel to "come away by yourselves to a lonely place to rest". Beloved child of God, we all need this intermittent and occasional time out from the busy activities of life to b...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Beyond rationality, one of the basic attributes that distinguishes human beings from beasts is the ability to be compassionate. Without compassion we'll end up treating one another as mere beasts or animals do. This is because without compassion the human reasoning ability leads us more often to destroying the self and others. Today, God calls us specially to the life of c...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. Today the Creator condescends to meet His creatures. God Himself comes to His people; a people He had always searched for. He comes not to condemn them but to offer them His mercy, love and compassion. He comes to fill the emptiness of His people, to fulfil their hope and to redeem them from their lifelong enemies. In today's feast Jesus Christ comes to us as the Light tha...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful." (John 15:1-2). The beauty of a flower comes out the most when properly trimmed and pruned, though it's never a pleasant experience the flower undergoing trimming and pruning. Like t...

TODAY'S HOMILY IN BRIEF. As God's beloved children, the best place to meet Jesus Christ is to seek Him in where He is usually found most of the time in His life. Jesus Christ will always identify with and be with those who are at the margin of the society. In fact, if you seek to find Jesus Christ, seek Him in the poorest of the poor. We're called to extend a helping hand to those in need out of o...