https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/Long form faith for people who ask hard questions.enhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/two-rooms-one-shepherd.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/two-rooms-one-shepherd.htmlThu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsReformed, Arminian and Pentecostal believers answer the question of falling away differently, yet Scripture sets promise and warning side by side.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/above-thy-fellows.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/above-thy-fellows.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityHebrews 1:9 is first about the Son. It rules out praising smallness and selling oil, and leaves ambition that serves and works well.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/broken-and-chosen.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/broken-and-chosen.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityGod keeps calling people who are slow of speech, frightened, limping or ill, and the Bible says plainly why, so that nobody mistakes the vessel for the power.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/every-story-at-once.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/every-story-at-once.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000SovereigntyThe sky is vast, yet the Bible says God knows every life on earth in detail, and that he came to live one of them.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/god-did-not-improvise.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/god-did-not-improvise.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsThe cross was in God's purpose before Eden, which changes how a believer can hold suffering and doubt, with Revelation 13:8 handled honestly.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/not-to-show-them.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/not-to-show-them.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityA prayer asking God to raise us above those who shamed us, tested against the angry psalms, Psalm 23, and the lives of Joseph and David.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/he-never-said-it-but-he-meant-it.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/he-never-said-it-but-he-meant-it.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsJesus never spoke the sentence "I am God, worship me", and this essay shows why that silence is a poor test and what he said and did instead.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/how-can-a-loving-god-send-someone-to-hell.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/how-can-a-loving-god-send-someone-to-hell.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsHell is a question to meet slowly: what love is, who does the sending, what Christians have taught, and what none of us may say about the dead.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/look-or-see.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/look-or-see.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CulturePeople stand in the same place and look at the same thing yet see different realities, so faith begins with sight only God can give.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/no-other-branch.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/no-other-branch.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsJesus claimed to be the only way to the Father. Seen rightly, that claim is a kindness to people queuing at counters where they hold no account.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/nobody-is-coming-to-save-nigeria.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/nobody-is-coming-to-save-nigeria.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureNigeria keeps waiting for a leader or an election to end the waiting, while Scripture asks a people to rebuild the wall in front of them.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/one-gospel-many-rooms.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/one-gospel-many-rooms.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureWhy claims of tens of thousands of denominations say less than they seem to, and how to tell a family argument from a real fracture.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/satan-was-never-playing-the-same-game.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/satan-was-never-playing-the-same-game.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Spiritual WarfarePaul says the rulers behind the cross did not understand it. This essay follows that failure from Eden to Good Friday.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-atheist-who-shouted-jesus.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-atheist-who-shouted-jesus.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsA scene on a Lagos to Ibadan bus shows why shouting Scripture fails, what 1 Peter 3:15 asks of apologists, and what a frightened shout proves.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-blessing-that-asks-something-of-you.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-blessing-that-asks-something-of-you.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityProverbs 10:22 says the LORD is the source of wealth and that his gift comes clean, and Proverbs asks honesty and generosity of the receiver.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/three-cords-of-favour.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/three-cords-of-favour.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000WisdomThree sayings in Proverbs about the favour of the LORD, on wisdom, goodness and marriage, tested against the life of Jesus.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-devil-doesnt-matter.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-devil-doesnt-matter.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Spiritual WarfareA catchy line about the devil losing his place is mostly true, but the Bible says it more carefully, and the difference matters if you feel besieged.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-god-who-draws-in-curves.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-god-who-draws-in-curves.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000SovereigntyA famous problem in mathematics shows that the shortest road is not always the quickest, and Scripture says the same about the roads God chooses for his people.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-people-who-keep-forgetting.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-people-who-keep-forgetting.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000SovereigntyThe Bible treats forgetting what God has done as an old danger, and builds remembering into stones, a table, records and choices made in the dark.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/woman-caught-adultery-law-of-moses.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/woman-caught-adultery-law-of-moses.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityA crowd quotes Moses against a woman in John 8, only one person present can carry out the sentence, and the passage's place in our Bibles is told honestly.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-temple-has-merchandise.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-temple-has-merchandise.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureWhat happens when a church runs on the logic of the marketplace, what Scripture says about it, and what stands when the business model fails.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/three-sons-and-a-father-who-keeps-running.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/three-sons-and-a-father-who-keeps-running.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Grace & IdentityIn Luke 15 a father runs to both sons, and one chair stays empty for the brother who goes looking, the place Jesus was filling as he spoke.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/turned-upside-down.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/turned-upside-down.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureThe charge against Paul and Silas in Thessalonica was an insult, yet it describes how the kingdom of Jesus works, by giving, serving and dying.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/what-islam-offers-and-what-it-cannot-deliver.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/what-islam-offers-and-what-it-cannot-deliver.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsA Christian takes the strongest Muslim claims seriously, answers them fairly, and asks what a religion of submission can do for the human heart.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-blood-runs-deep.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/the-blood-runs-deep.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Hard QuestionsFamily patterns of sin and suffering are real, but Scripture does not teach an inherited curse that Christ has not already dealt with.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/when-god-goes-quiet-esther.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/when-god-goes-quiet-esther.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000SovereigntyEsther never names God, yet its sleepless king, forgotten record and reversed gallows invite trust in a hand we cannot see.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/tolerance-not-a-fruit-of-the-spirit.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/tolerance-not-a-fruit-of-the-spirit.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureTolerance once meant bearing patiently with people who differ. Affirming every belief is another thing, because love tells the truth.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/nigeria-bleeding-who-will-answer.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/nigeria-bleeding-who-will-answer.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureA retrospective on the May 2026 Oriire school abductions: what the courts and data show since the captives came home, and what the church can do.https://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/you-did-not-come-to-worship-henry-beecher.htmlhttps://babatundeawo.github.io/deep-calls/writeups/you-did-not-come-to-worship-henry-beecher.htmlSat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Church & CultureA story told for a century and a half about a congregation facing an empty pulpit, offered honestly as a story, and what we come to church for.