Pastor AIO: In defense of the guy (whose name I will not mention) I believe that everyone has his calling in life. I believe that if everyone could just follow his calling no matter how small and leave others to follow their calling then in the end nothing will be left undone. There is so much injustice in the world, but I as an individual can feel moved to do something about underprivileged children. That doesn't mean I don't care for underprivileged adults but God has put it in me to alleviate the suffering of children. I'm sure that as he has given me my part he has inspired someone else to alleviate the suffering of poor adults. If that person just got on with it rather than point accusing fingers at me for only concentrating on children then work doesn't get left undone.
There are all sorts of extortion. If the spirit moves one to talk about tithes then leave him to do his little part. In the parable of the 3 servants and their talents did God not distributes the silver uneven and those that were faithful over the little things eventually God set them over greater things. Is this not so?
Those of us who care so much about all the other forms of extortion should get on our bikes and start doing something about them.
Father who picked prostitute to take teen son's virginity as a gift spared jail
By Mirror.co.uk 15/05/2009
A man who sought out a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son’s virginity as a gift has been spared jail today.
The Polish national, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out a prostitute in Nottingham’s red-light district, a court heard.
But the 42-year-old father was arrested after the teenager chose an undercover police officer.
The full-time carer, from Bulwell, Nottingham, admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child and was given a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.
The court heard that the father was arrested in the Mapperley area of Nottingham during an undercover operation by the city's vice squad.
Adrian Harris, prosecuting, said: "It was about 11.30pm on July 26 last year. An undercover police officer whose code name was Sarah said a car drove up to her. It was driven by the defendant who beckoned her over.
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"He was not alone in the car and in the passenger seat was a boy. The defendant said: 'Hello baby, how much?'
"She said: 'It depends what you want.' He replied: 'Come on baby, what is it that you do? How much for a proper shag for him?' And then he pointed to his son."
Mr Harris said the undercover officer replied the cost would be £25 but this was negotiated down to £20.
"The defendant said he would pull over and at this point he was arrested by plainclothes police officers and both he and the boy were interviewed separately."
Mr Harris added: "The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said 'will she do?'
sharp man: Nigerian bus driver kills four Barca supporters Reuters
May 28, 2009
A Manchester United fan in Nigeria killed four people when he drove his minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final, police said on Thursday.
The crowd in the town of Ogbo were celebrating Barcelona's victory after Wednesday night's match when the bus drove into them. A police spokeswoman said 10 people were injured and the driver was arrested.
"The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them," she said.
Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in what was hailed as a "dream final" between two of Europe's best clubs. Both teams have large fan bases in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
o boy do you also have any qualms with football teams brainwashing vulnerable people plus taking their hard earned money in the name of being "glorified" supporters?
Rogo: WHAT ARE THE ROLE OF CHURCH IN MARRIAGE APART FROM JOINING COUPLES TOGETHER, MAYBE THERE'S MISUNDERSTANDING. WHAT CAN THE CHURCH DO.
WHY AM ASKING THIS IS BECAUSE SOMETIMES AGO COUPLE SEPARATED AND THE MAN WENT TO REPORT THE ISSUE TO THE CHURCH AND THEY TOLD TO MEET THEIR FAMILY TO SETTLE THE DISPUTE.
KunleOshob: Again here you display not only a very poor understanding of scripture but a pathetic understanding of the english language. By saying poor up bringing means that you were badly brought up and NOT that you came from a poor background. I would never insult or abuse a person for coming from a poor back ground that is totally out of character for me.
thanks for taking the bait. i wanted you to spell it clear becos knowing the maradona you are you would have said you were not insulting my parents. you hanged yourself very nicely. not too clever for a 1994 graduate is it?
as i have told you before you and your types stand for everything i find obscene in the holier than thou devisive form of christianity you practice .
i hate wasting my time on a waste of space like you seeing you are so religiously deluded like the many hateful, ugly and nasty Christless religious sect you belong to.
how does upbringing affect your understanding and interpretations of the scriptures? you wish my " poor "parents brought you up first thing you would have learnt is how not to criticize people you know you can never do 1% of thier dids. you wish they brought you up you would have learnt the small virtue of humility. given 500yrs to live you can never achieve 10% of what david oyedepo has achieved in his short life. paul said " we have the treasures of God in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may [i]should always [/i]be of God and not of us ( 2 Cor. 4 :7).
your arrogance makes you believe you are all that i hate to tell you as paul said you are nothing it shows clearer and clearer daily. you go about highlighting love yet easily forget love does not pump up itself and is not proud nor arrogant like you display here. you are too full of your pumpous nauseating self for me to continue any meaningfull dialogue with.
continue judging yourself on NL thinking you are judging david oyedepo and the rest. surprise surprise they are doing things that take your good for nothing govts struggle to do. keep on giving yourself headache becos you are the only well brought up 1994 graduate christian in nigeria. welcome to your no destination bus. it is obvious you know nothing about the kingdom of God neither the love in the kingdom.
JustGood: The reason many of these foreign women keeo up their stupidity is the fact that no one ever dares tell them the truth, they are mostly daft when it comes to relationships.
What do you expect of a scum from anywhere who is desperately looking for ways to survive in life? The warning signs are always there for these women but they chose to ignore such signs and then they scream foul play later. Nonsense!
Sometimes, the Nigerian boys are actually the victims but these women come out and blow their rubbish snouts in public. The boys are young, vulnerable and desperate seeking ways to make ends meet; the old often-divorced with children foreign women grab them and get them to marry.
The desperate boy sees a chance to improve his lot in life by getting papers to stay in the country and he grabs the chance. Throughout the relationship, it is clear that this woman sees herself as doing an African man a favour. After getting his papers, the man decides to move on. . . why should he stay in a marriage where the woman just sees him as someone who is fortunate enough that she is helping him? None of these women will ever paint the right pictures about the kind of things they do to the men.
Is this not one of the reasons that marriages break down rampantly even among white couples
i agreee with most of what you said however i am totally against going into relationships with people you dont love and old women not even paper is worth it. our people should know there is more to life than having residence permits abroad. going into relationships and create kids is taking this to a new and dangerous level. there are too many messed up mixed race kids about.
i have seen too many vulnerable people ( black/ white) being taken advantage of. it is sick but coming to NL and tell me
It would be sad if in the future my son hides his nigerian background because of the stereotypes that are attached to nigerians.
The truth is some nigerian are big spoilt babies that refuse to grow up and be a man.
this is taking the buiscuit do those pics above look like nigerian men refusing to grow up to you?.
thank you my dear bros. it really upset me when i see people like this woman with infantile brains scums like these in thier midst turn on us becos of 1 foolish boy she willingly followed or schemed into her bed.
Ijawman: From Holland to Nigeria on bike: Two Dutchmen on tour of Africa say, 'Nigeria security agencies are polite'; Call on Government to redeem Nigeria's image; Serve as petrol attendants in Nigeria
By Wale ojo Lanre
Feits and Dennis on their third hand bikes which have covered over 20,000 kilometres When Feits Engelaer and Dennis Vioet, two motor mechanics in Holland, expressed their intention to transverse Africa to meet and see the people in their natural environment, using their motorcycles as means of transportation, their friends and families thought they were having a weird dream.
“You must be joking. Africa is a dead end, where everything is wrong and upside down,” a friend told Feits.
“You people are trying to commit suicide. You, going on your bike to Africa? It is definitely a suicide mission,” said another to Dennis.
“They could not believe us, "said Feits, because “some of us have this horrible perception about Africa.”
“In fact, we were specifically warned not to visit Nigeria at all,” Dennis revealed.
“When they sensed our determination to tour Africa on our bikes right from our resident in Holland, some of our friends specifically warned us to steer clear of Nigeria."
Determined to see Africa, the two Dutch- men left Spain on Sunday 15 March, 2009. Throughout the over 20,000 kilometres journey from Spain to Nigeria, transversing the deserts seeing Tangier, Mimuo, Mali, Senegal, Lome, Nigeria, they were off the bike only when they were to cross the Mediterranean sea.
What baffled the tourists was the information they got about Nigeria, even within the African continent. “We nearly botched the Nigeria side trip, but our determination to see Nigeria overpowered the negative image we got not only from Holland, but also from Nigeria’s neighbouring countries. In some of these West African countries visited, we were told in plain language not to visit Nigeria. They said it is either we would be kidnapped, harmed, robbed, harassed or put into jail by the corrupt law enforcement agencies.”
Feits and Dennis said that these negative comments rather than demoralising them further fuelled their curiosity about Nigeria.
“We then more than before decided to have the so called "Nigerian experience.”
At the Ketu border in Ogun State, “we never bargained for what we got at the Ketu border post in Ogun State. We were expecting to meet a set of hostile, corrupt and lazy officers who would be over us demanding for bribes, tips and undue gratification, rather we got a crop of decent officers who were attending to a multitude of travellers.”
From the border down to Abeokuta, the motorcyclist said that they were impressed by the warmth and hospitality displayed by Nigerians towards them. “This is not what we were expecting,” said Dennis.
After arriving at Abeokuta, Dennis revealed that he got a call and an e-mail from home. “My brother called that we should leave Nigeria immediately because the news had it that there was war in Warri. He thought the crisis in Warri was affecting the whole of the country.”
He said he did not blame his brother but “I let him realised that contrary to the shade of news he read or heard that the crisis in Warri was within a state or a local government and not that Nigeria was at war.”
They said that “so far, so good we are bold to say that Nigeria is save for tourists and foreigners."
Feits pointed out: “Our passion to embark on the bike ride of Africa was due to our curiosity to see Africans in their true, real and pure nature not through the polluted news and distorted pictures being painted about African countries, particularly Nigeria.”
Dennis stressed thus: “There is nothing serious wrong with Nigeria. It is the same symptoms which always bedevil a big country like this. What Nigeria needs is a consistent image machine that will concern itself ensure that the world gets the true picture of what is going on here.”
Commenting on the police, “we have never experienced harassment from the security men. They have been very civil, polite and nice.”
Feits and Dennis have become the friends of a Nigerian whom they even served as petrol attendant's at his station.
“We even met a Nigerian who we made friend with and we volunteered to serve as petrol attendant in his gas station,” Feits disclosed.
And for a day, at Okat Petrol Station on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, motorists who patronised the gas station were surprised to see the two white men serving as petrol attendants. While Dennis was on the petrol nozzle, Feits was cleaning the windscreen of customers' cars.
“Nigerians are funny people. They were astonished seeing us working as attendants at a petrol station. We were happy doing it.”
At another village in Benin, the tourists joined the villagers at drawing water from the well.
“Our journey to Africa most importantly, Nigeria, is a desire come true. We have been able to see and know Nigeria and Nigerians in their true colour. There is a gulf of difference, a big one like that of how Nigeria and its wonderful people are being portrayed outside and the reality on ground.
They also revealed that, “we are heading for Calabar, enroute Cameroon. We will visit Tinapa to make up the days we will be spending, procuring visa to the Cameroon.”
Talking about the bike, the duo said “Our bikes are not custom made. We bought them third-hand. And we have not done any serious work on the engine, except changing our tyres.”
Since the journey from Spain to Nigeria, “it was only Feits' bike that had its tyres changed seven times, while my bike had no problem at all,” Dennis revealed.
They promised to comeback to Nigeria after they must have completed their tour of Africa on bike.
“We shall definitely come back to Nigeria. It is a lovely country. The government only needs to work on the image of the country.”
nice one. thank God they had all thier stuff intact.
Christianity Etc › Re: How Am I To Pay My Tithe? by JJYOU: 2:05pm On May 28, 2009
