Episode 199: Transfigured
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Sermon delivered March 1, 2025, Transfiguration Sunday
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Episode 198: An Unexpected Form of Resistance
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
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.
Episode 197 Jesus' People
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Sermon delivered on Feb. 16, 2025
Luke 4:14-21
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.
Episode 196: The First Sign -- Water Into Wine
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
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.
Episode 195: Loving God and Neighbors
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
A study of love.
Read MoreEpisode 194: Refusing to Be Silenced
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Faith, 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 MoreEpisode 193: Words that Bring Change
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Jesus takes a vacation and meets a woman who challenges his prejudices and changes his vision for ministry.
Read MoreEpisode 192: Faith Without Works is Dead
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Sermon on James 1:17-27
Episode 191: Choose Your God
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Sermon on Joshua 24:1-25. Joshua challenges us to choose the god we will serve.
Episode 190: A Beautiful Life
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
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.
Episode 189: Critics and Prophets
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
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.
Episode 188: Truth
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Sermon on the call of Samuel (I Samuel chapter 3) — Speaking Truth to power.
Episode 187: A Love Story
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Episode 186: Learning When to Say "No"
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Episode 185: Demons be Gone!
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
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.
Episode 184: Mary the Magdalene
The Rev. Dr. Alix Pridgen
Luke 8:1-3 Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, 2 as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their resources. (NRS)