Alix Pridgen

Jesus visits the home of Martha, Mary & Lazarus on his way to Jerusalem. Mary pours costly perfume over Jesus' feet as an outpouring of love. In the same way Jesus will pour out his life in love for us.

The essence of holiness is loving God with one’s whole heart, soul, mind and strength, and loving one's neighbor as oneself. When we don’t love God with all that we are, and when we don’t treat one another with love, there will be pain and sadness, but our loving God is at work to reconcile us.

Current events, disasters, and signs of hope.

Jesus is trying to protect us, and we won't listen to him.

When 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.

The story of the Transfiguration reveals the changes in us.

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.

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.

Sermon on John 2:1-12 where Jesus turns water into wine.

Jesus tells us the greatest commandment is to love God with our whole being and to love our neighbors as ourselves. He didn't say it was easy.

Bartimaeus and Malala refuse to be silenced -- and are blessed.

Jesus tries to take a vacation and meets a woman whose words challenge his prejudice and change his vision of ministry. Sermon on Mark 7:24037

Sermon on James chapter 1

Joshua challenges us to choose which god we will serve. Sermon on Joshua 24:1-25

Sermon on Ephesians 4:25-5:2 Life in the Body of Christ

Sermon on Amos 7:7-15 and Mark 16:18-49 The need for critics and honest criticism and a call to more responsible politics.

A sermon on the call of Samuel (I Sam. chapter 3) and our call to honesty and to tell our leaders the truth--especially when it's not what they want to hear.

God's love, mercy and forgiveness transforms and heals us. Share the good news!

Jesus looks to God for his mission and shows us how to say "no" to the trap of pleasing everyone else.

Jesus casts a demon out of a man in a synagogue. We have our own "demons" but Jesus can cast them out, too.