CORRECTIONAL MINISTRY

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Are you having an affair? If anybody asks you this question, you may go angry or leave, because it sounds insulting. Why, because you are never the type of person that would have an affair outside your relationship/marriage. Well, that is because you think having an affair or cheating your partner is restricted to sex alone.  Having an affair is beyond having sex with someone who is not your partner. Do you know this? Come with me by reading the write up below. Emotional affair does not involve sex. It happens to people who are in courtship or engaged or married, but very fond of somebody else who is not their spouse and if care is not taken, can lead to a full blown sexual affair. Emotional affair does not only happen to people in bad, unhappy marriages. It can happen to happy couples, morally sound people and deeply spiritual individuals who love God with all their hearts and hate sin. It can even happen to great men and women of God. How, then, do they fall into an emotional a...

Beloved remember, before you became born again, you were living in sin. People sacrificed their time preaching to you in fellowships, streets, work place, pubilc vehicles etc. Born again friends of yours spoke to you severally about Jesus, but you snubbed them and didn't listen to them. But that did not stop them from loving you or make them give up on you. They also exhibited unimaginable level of patience as born again christians, by the help of the Holy Spirit. They kept praying for you to give your life to Jesus and also hoping that one day you will accept Jesus and surrender your life to 'Him'. God in his infinit mercy, was equally patient with you out of love, despite the countless times you dissappointed and disobeyed 'Him'. Because of the love God has for you as a sinner, 'He' kept his promise which was revealed to Apostle Paul, who said in the book of Romans 8:35,38-39 ........ [35] "Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can ...

“I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one. … As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” John 17:14-18.   The prayer of Jesus in today’s Gospel passage carries a lot of deep-seated messages which we see clearly manifested even in our first reading and in our day to day life today. Jesus’ prayer is not only descriptive, it is in a sense prophetic. *First, Jesus summarizes the struggles and challenges of Christianity as hatred from the world.* The world hates us because we do not belong here. The world has never liked Christians so much so that it is a contradiction to be Christian and worldly at the same time. We cannot have two masters. We cannot make the world love us by force. Just yesterday, I saw a video of a woma...

Beloved, our choice of words, manner of speech, dress code, areas of interests, what we write, places we visit, the views we support, the friends we keep, the photographs and thoughts we share etc, are good enough to assess and predict who we really are. Everything we do, must have been conceived in our heart before we act on them. This is why we often say, 'out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh'. It is funny that we always want people to see us as good, but our actions does not correlate with how good we want to be seen. When we tell people how good we are and act contrarily, we create what I may refer to as   ' Confused Personality'. The religious men and women will call it 'Hypocrisy'. The question is, WHO ARE YOU ? When we wake up in the morning and look at the mirror, we often think that who we see on the mirrior is actually who we are. However, it is important to know that mirrors don't tell us who we are, but rather they only tell u...

In our society today, 'EMOTIONAL AFFAIR' with the opposite sex outside marriage, especially in the office, is not seen by many as an act of cheating or infidelity in marriage. It will be important to define the two terms (i.e. emotion and affair) to enable us have a clear understanding of this phrase 'Emotional Affair'.  MEANING OF EMOTION ' Emotion means a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state'. To explain further based on this definition, emotion has to do with an involuntary inside feelings of a person. The word 'Feeling', is synonymous to emotion. Emotions or feelings are expressed mostly in response to persons, situations or object and also tied to it. But in this context, we are focusing on emotions or feelings expressed towards persons. MEANING OF AFFAIR The word 'Affair' means an event or sequence of events of a specified kind...

Today many families have suffered conflicts in the past and in recent times. Will many still experience conflicts in the future?  Only time will tell. It is important to understand the key words of the heading of this message, to enable us have a deep understanding. The key words here are 'Family' and 'Conflict'. Family:  The Family is a group of people who live together or one that is similar to one that is related by blood, marriage, law or customs, which is made up of father, mother with a son or daughter or both. Conflict:  It means a clash, disagreement or violence between two opposing groups. It also means incompatibility.  Looking at the definition of the two key words, we can say that family conflict means a clash, disagreement or violence that occurs in a  family setting. Family conflict can occur between husband (father) and wife (mother) or between any of the parent and the child(ren). However, it is important for us to know that we need Jesu...