Author: aboydjohnson

My friends, when someone is brought into Christ, they are no longer “like everyone else” and it is that very distinction which is the cause of division. A very fine sermon by my friend and colleague The Reverend Thomas Nsubuga, Sub Dean of St Mark's Cathedral Shreveport. Please take a few minutes to edify your… Continue reading Marked – Sermon From Thomas Nsubuga

I waited patiently upon the LORD; *     he stooped to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the desolate pit, out of the mire and clay; *     he set my feet upon a high cliff and made my footing sure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song… Continue reading Waiting with God

The past few weeks in America have caused my phone to ring a number of times with folks asking about how things are going at the church, given that we are in successive months of quarantine in Louisiana. Usually there is also a thought or question shared about the events happening in the streets of… Continue reading Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine

Phillips Brooks “Happiness is the natural flower of duty,” said Phillips Brooks, perhaps the most well-known preacher of his generation in the 19th Century, who happened to be an Episcopalian. If you sit with someone long enough the conversation will eventually turn toward the topic of happiness – either implicitly or implied; are you happy… Continue reading Make Me Happy

Morning Prayer: The Fifth Sunday of Easter - 2020 Alleluia! Christ is risen.The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, acopy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear inthe presence of God on our behalf.    Hebrews 9:24 You shall receive power when the Holy… Continue reading Morning Prayer – The Fifth Sunday of Easter