Alix Pridgen

A story about a widow, a weary judge, and the God who never stops listening.

A sermon on 2Kings 5:1-15Key Themes: Ordinary faith • Humility • Grace in everyday life • God’s presence in the mundaneCategory: Religion & Spirituality — Christianity

“Faith doesn’t always look like certainty.Sometimes it looks like standing your post—weary but still watching, hurt but still listening.Habakkuk stood in the watchtower and said,‘I will wait to see what God will say.’Maybe that’s what we’re called to be:a watchtower people in a restless world.People who keep hope visible—who act as if mercy still matters,who speak as if peace is still possible,who believe that grace is still stronger than hate.Because it is.

“When the disciples asked Jesus how to pray, he didn’t give them a formula for getting what they wanted. He gave them a prayer that begins by saying, ‘God, you are God — and I am not.’ It’s a prayer of surrender.The Lord’s Prayer calls us to let go — to open our empty hands for daily bread, to release our grudges, to trust God with the trials ahead. Because prayer isn’t just about changing our circumstances. It’s about being changed — about letting God’s grace rise up in us like a song.”

Sisters of the Same HeartIn this episode, Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen explores the timeless story of Mary and Martha — and invites us to challenge the old divide between rest and work. With honesty, warmth, and real-life stories, this message speaks to anyone feeling stretched thin or longing for deeper connection.You’ll hear how stillness is not weakness, but the sacred space where God meets us, renews us, and empowers us for the road ahead. Whether you’re a Martha in overdrive or a Mary aching for meaning, this episode offers grace, hope, and a fresh invitation: to be held, to be healed, and to be moved by love into action.

What keeps us from being a neighbor?Is it fear? Hurry? Bias?In this powerful episode, Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen uncovers the hidden pulls that keep us from compassion — and reveals the radical grace that meets us when we’re the ones in the ditch.Hear unforgettable stories of unexpected heroes, surprising mercy, and a gospel that promises: you are seen, you are loved, and you are lifted to new life.

“Sometimes, peace isn’t a feeling — it’s a decision.It’s what we choose to hold onto when respect gives way to resentment,when the people we once stood beside become distant.Even if you can’t fix the world — you can still be faithful in it.And that may be the truest peace of all.”

Jesus sets his face toward Jerusalem—and everything changes. The road ahead is urgent. Costly. No time for goodbyes. No room for looking back. It sounds harsh—until we realize: he’s not raising the bar. He’s telling the truth about how hard it already is. Because when love is urgent, we don’t wait. Jesus walked into suffering—not to prove a point, but to pour out grace. And now he calls us forward. Not in our strength, but in his.

In this Pentecost sermon, Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen contrasts the grasping pride of Babel with the outpouring grace of Pentecost. Where Babel was about reaching upward to make a name, Pentecost is about opening outward to make space for the Spirit. Through vivid storytelling—from a dusty plain in Shinar to a peeling church porch in Kansas—Pridgen shows that the Holy Spirit doesn’t rush into towers of power, but into places of humility, hospitality, and hope. She weaves together scripture, small-town witness, and the historic election of Bishop Donna Simon to proclaim that Pentecost isn’t a one-time spectacle. It’s God’s ongoing pattern of grace—blowing through mismatched chairs and open hearts, making not just movements, but community.

Join Dr. Alix Pridgen as she unravels "God's Strange Math: 1 + 1 + 1 = One." Through captivating stories and biblical insights, this sermon challenges us to embrace unity that transforms and reconciles.

Through visions God instructs Peter to visit the home of a Roman centurion, a Gentile, and while Peter is there the Holy Spirit comes over Cornelius' household -- crossing barriers of scripture and tradition.

In this powerful Easter message, The Rev. Dr. Alix D. Pridgen invites us to consider what burdens we carry—grief, regret, fear, doubt—and reminds us that the resurrection of Jesus brings more than celebration; it brings release. Through Scripture, story, and honest reflection, we’re led to see how the risen Christ meets us in our heaviest moments, offering forgiveness, freedom, and new life. The tomb is empty, and love has the last word. Step into the light of Easter with resurrection confidence.

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.