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9100 Mission Rd
Prairie Village, KS, 66206
(913) 649-0438
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection is a congregation of the ELCA. Please visit our web page to learn more about us, our community partnerships, and ministries.
Weekly sermons delivered by The Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen
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“The Spirit takes people who think they have nothing to say and gives them a word. The Spirit takes people who have been silenced by fear, by pain, by shame, by grief, by disappointment, and gives them a voice.”
Read More“In a world that moves quickly… discards quickly… forgets quickly… leaves quickly… the followers of Jesus remain. We stay. We sit beside hospital beds. We keep showing up with casseroles. We keep making phone calls. We mentor other people’s children. We forgive one another. We show up at funerals because nobody should grieve alone. We pray when words come hard. We keep loving even after disappointment. Because Christ has abided with us.”
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.
Read More“Christ the King Sunday isn’t strange because it competes with democracy — it’s strange because it competes with despair. Our world is full of strongmen and cynicism, people who fear kings and people who long for them. But the Gospel points us to a different kind of King. One who meets us in our suffering, one who remembers us in our worst moments, one who says to a dying man — and to us — ‘Today you will be with me.’”
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