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9100 Mission Rd
Prairie Village, KS, 66206
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Weekly sermons delivered by The Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen
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“A decree goes out. Not a conversation. Not a question. Not a community forum. A decree. A registry. A journey demanded. A law passed in an office far away from those it would affect.
No one asked if Mary was tired.
No one asked if Joseph was worried.
No one asked where they’d sleep… or what they’d eat… or who would be there when the baby came.
Empire never asks those questions.”
“Today, that’s where the Gospel takes us—
to an underground dungeon… stone walls… darkness.
Time moves different down here. You can’t mark the days by sunlight—only by footsteps… keys… a piece of bread shoved in. There is no horizon.”
“And John is waiting. And waiting is not neutral. Waiting presses on everything you thought you knew. Waiting messes with your prayers. It messes with your memory.”
“And questions surface—raw, unedited, honest:
‘God, are you really who I thought you were? …If the prophecies are being fulfilled… where is the promised justice?’”
“‘Are you… the one who is to come, or should we wait… for another?’”
“And Jesus answers, ‘Look… The answer is right in front of you… not in a lightning bolt… but in mercy you can touch… in ordinary places where God keeps choosing life.’”
Read MoreIsaiah looks at our world and dares to say: ‘It will not always be like this.’ One day the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and the goat, the child and the viper—they will live in peace. Advent invites us to lean toward that world, to notice the shimmering moments when creation remembers itself, and to trust that the God who shaped this world is making it new—even now.
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