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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
Jesus visits the home of Lazarus, Martha and Mary on his way to Jerusalem just days before his death. While is there, Mary pours a jar of very expensive perfume over his feet. He interprets it as an “anointing for his burial.” In Jerusalem, Jesus will be arrested and crucified— pouring his life out in love for us.
Read MoreJesus tells a story about a family broken by resentment and selfishness, and a father who comes to reconcile his children.
Read MoreWe are God’s children, and it is God’s job to protect us… but too often we refuse to listen.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Like Jerusalem… we wanted to go our own way… do our own thing…Sometimes we got distracted by the shiny things…
Read MoreWhen we know that we belong to a loving, patient and powerful God, we can make it through the tough times, too. Scarred perhaps, but intact. Knowing that God is with us – and that God is reconciling our world, we can make it through Lent, and war, and financial crisis. We can make it through relocations, parenthood, divorces, cancer, the death of our children, difficult work, and all the other things that bedevil us and test our limits of faith and endurance. Because we belong to Jesus – into whose life and death we are baptized… we, too, can walk with courage and stamina and faithfulness and hope until that day when he takes us by the hand and leads us into the Promised Life to Come.
Read MoreSermon delivered March 1, 2025, Transfiguration Sunday
Sermon delivered Feb. 23, 2025
Epiphany 7C
Text: Luke
How can we maintain our dignity and sense of self… in the face of bullying and mistreatment… when you cannot run away and fighting back is not an option? Jesus says we can take charge of our story and give the unexpected response.
Sermon delivered on Feb. 16, 2025
If we want to see God’s work in the world… if we want to see God’s miracles in life… We have only to look in the places where nobody else is looking… and at the people nobody else respects. There we will see him -- God’s messiah – coming with power – for us– Just as God did in Nazareth.
A sermon delivered January 19th on The Gospel According to John 2:1-12. The scripture reading is included in the recording. Jesus and his mother are at a wedding. The hosts run out of wine. Jesus meets their need by turning water into wine.
A study of love.
Read MoreFaith, facing obstacles, doesn’t give up!
Includes the stories of Bartimaeus and of Malala Yousafzai.
“When the world tells you to shrink, expand!” — Welteroth
Read MoreJesus takes a vacation and meets a woman who challenges his prejudices and changes his vision for ministry.
Read MoreSermon on James 1:17-27
Sermon on Joshua 24:1-25. Joshua challenges us to choose the god we will serve.
Sermon on Ephesians 4:25-5:2
Putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Amos 7:7-15 Amos receives a prophecy from God and reports to the temple leader and king, but his words are rejected.
Mark 16:18-49 John, the baptizer, criticizes Herod Antipas’ marriage to his Herod’s brother’s wife, Herodius and winds up beheaded.
Sermon on the call of Samuel (I Samuel chapter 3) — Speaking Truth to power.
Mark 1:21-28 Jesus casts out a demon from a man in a synagogue. We have our own “demons” and Jesus will cast those out, too.
