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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
Filtering by Tag: Holy Spirit
“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 MoreEvery day, voices around us tell us what deserves our fear… our focus… our devotion.
We live in a world filled with noise—
constantly demanding our attention and telling us where to look every hour of the day.
Look at what you lack.
Look at who is winning.
Look at who is failing.
Look at who to fear.
Look at who to blame.
But what we keep looking at… has the power to shape us.
If we spend our lives staring only at anger… we become angry.
If we stare only at fear… fear begins to rule us.
If we stare only at what is broken… despair slowly settles into the bones.
But we have the power to look up—
to see the heavens opened—
and Jesus standing before us…
claiming us…
strengthening us…
so that fear and violence don’t get the last word.
“The Spirit is like the wind. It blows where it will. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it goes.” Faith, Jesus is saying, doesn’t always begin with certainty. Sometimes it begins the way wind begins — quietly, mysteriously, moving through places we didn’t expect.
I once knew someone who wandered into church almost by accident. She didn’t know the stories. She didn’t know the language of faith. She mostly stayed in the nursery and kept to herself. But slowly something began to happen. People listened to her. They welcomed her questions. They loved her without demanding that she prove anything first. And one day she said something remarkable. She said, “Somehow I’ve come to believe that God exists… and that God loves me.” Not because someone forced her. Not because she solved every theological question. But because she encountered grace. And that’s what Jesus is trying to tell Nicodemus.
God doesn’t wait for us to understand everything before loving us. God simply loves the world — the whole messy, complicated, questioning world. And when love like that finds us, something new begins.
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