Reading Assignment for the month of February
Black History Month is an annual observance in February dedicated to celebrating the achievements and central role of African Americans in U.S. history. It is also officially recognized in Canada in February and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands in October.
Black History Month
Reading Assignment for the Month of March
On this day, the faithful receive ashes on their foreheads, accompanied by the words: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” or “Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
Lent is a 40-day season of reflection, fasting, and repentance inspired by Jesus in the wilderness. Key scriptures focus on returning to God, such as Joel 2:12-13 ("return to me with all your heart"), and reflection on sacrifice, notably John 3:16 and Matthew 4:1-11, which details Jesus' fasting.
Core Lenten Scriptures:
Reading Assignment for April
Spiritual Formation
14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
I Timothy 3:14-15
Formation entails ethical integrity, and Pentecostal formation. So in other words, formation determines how we navigate through the weight of the oil… the weight of the anointing, the weight of spiritual responsibility (we are our brother’s keeper), the weight of governing ourselves in the spirit of meekness, humility, kindness and love.
10 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
Leviticus 10:1-3
We're no longer being summoned to seek the oil. We are being summoned to steward its weight.
Because anointing without formation becomes a liability to both the vessel and the body. Two sons of Aaron. stood before the Lord with censors in their hands. They were not outsiders. They were not rebellious, pagans. They were priests, Ordained. authorized, clothed in sacred garments, standing near holy fire.
We find in this passage that Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire. Yeah, which he had not commanded. The issue was not the presence of fire. It was the absence of purity.
It was worship, detached from command. detached from intimacy, without submission. And the Lord's response still echoes with theological gravity today. Among those the Bible says, who are near me, I will be sanctified.
Yes. The closer one stands to holy things, the greater the demand for holy living. Our Christian walk as leaders must confront this sobering truth. Spiritual authority does not excuse ethical deviation.
In fact, it heightens its accountability. Nadab and Abihu remind us that fire without formation is fatal. That anointing without alignment invites exposure.
