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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.

Alix D Pridgen

Weekly sermons delivered by The Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen

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Episode 252: What Might I Do with This Life?

The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen

Sometimes, the Spirit begins with something very small. Grace can be sneaky. Someone forgives us—and we begin to believe we can live differently. Someone challenges an assumption we’ve never thought to question. An opportunity comes knocking and we respond. Or… we read Paul’s letter to the Romans for the hundredth time… and fall headfirst into the arms of God. That is what we celebrate today.

Grace gives us the room to ask forgiveness. To learn something we thought we already knew. To let someone love us. To ask ourselves, “What might I do with the life God has given me?”

Because the God who knows the whole truth about us…is loving us beyond our deserving, forgiving us beyond our failures, opening our minds and emboldening our hearts so we can love our neighbors, and freeing us for a future filled with grace and possibility!

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Episode 217: Two Prayers, One Mercy

The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen

The temple must’ve been busy that day — sandals scuffing stone, prayers murmured in the air, incense curling toward heaven. Two men walk in. One stands tall and prays about all the things he’s done right. The other can’t even lift his head. He just whispers seven words: “God, make atonement for me, a sinner.”

And Jesus says that man — the honest one — went home right with God.
Because mercy isn’t something we earn. It’s what meets us when the pretending stops.

We live in a world that rewards performance — say the right thing, post the right cause, look like you’ve got it together. But mercy doesn’t live on the stage. It lives in the quiet places where we tell the truth and discover we’re still loved.

That’s what grace does. It finds us — Pharisee hearts and tax-collector hearts alike — and sends us home lighter, forgiven, and free.

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