All Saints Anglican Church

What does John the Baptist's question from prison—"Are you the one?"—reveal about the nature of Christian hope? This sermon explores how Jesus's answer, drawing from Isaiah 35, shows that God's promises don't bypass judgment and suffering, but meet us on the other side of them through the Cross and Resurrection.

Discover why biblical hope isn't naive optimism, but something far deeper—"optimism with a broken heart,” as Nick Cave puts it. Explore explores how Isaiah's prophecy of the Messiah emerging from a dead stump reveals that Christian hope is always found through suffering, but suffering that leads to resurrection and new life.

We begin our Advent Vespers homily series by looking at John 8:25 as an echo of John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word.”

We explore how Advent isn’t just about the past or the future or even just the present, but about the God who is ordering all history towards Himself and how our baptisms fold our past, present and futures into Christ, who has stepped into our time.

On Christ the King Sunday, Seminarian Cale Baker examines the Cross as the seat of Christ's Kingship. Discover how the curse of Adam is overturned by the penitent thief's confession and Christ's promise of Paradise.

We look at what Jesus is getting at about the destruction of the Temple. Above all the mess of the world and the false hopes and promises it puts forward is the Christian witness to the Cross that truly and completely fulfills the meaning of that Temple.

The cynical Sadducees attempt to trap Jesus with a trick question on marriage in the afterlife, and Jesus brilliantly reverses things, demonstrating how they have misunderstood Scripture and the very character of God Himself, shattering their dead, vapid view of God, as well as this age and the age to come.

We explore one of Paul’s more mystical passages and the radical notion of the Church — all the saints — as Christ’s “fullness” and His glorious, predestined inheritance.

The Pharisee vs. the Tax Collector. Most read this as a parable about arrogance vs. humility, but it runs deeper than that. It’s a parable about the sin of self-justification and how true hope is found only and entirely in throwing yourself on the mercy of God, seen above all else in the Cross of Jesus Christ.

St. Luke, the regular ol' physician turned evangelist, portrays Jesus as the Great Physician, proclaiming Himself as the New Adam of the ultimate Jubilee come to heal humanity and bring them back to Paradise “today.”

Ten lepers healed and only one turns back to thank Jesus. We explore the real miracle that takes place in this story — the true healing of the human heart shown in genuine gratitude for the gifts of God — and why this often takes place in the “no man’s lands” of our lives.

Beginning with the way we crave and cry over goofy animal videos, we explore the tension between Creation’s “very good” beauty and its groamning, finding the answer to that tension in the Cross of Jesus Christ. 

Explore how the Christ and His Cross are the real Jacob’s ladder, the Incarnational “Gate of Heaven,” wherein Christ the Bridegroom wins His Bride, the Church, to the rejoicing of His friends, all the angels.

Matthew the tax collector and King Solomon the complicatedly unfaithful king show us why Proverbs 3 is the ultimate call to “follow me” to every forgetful sinner. 

On Holy Cross Day, we examine the “knife edge” of the Gospel: the brutal, counter-intuitive reality that God’s glory is most radiantly found in his descending into this world’s ugliness. Discover how Isaiah 53 and Philippians 2 reveal the Cross-shaped work of Christ that produces hope more real than our fears and turns the tragedies of the world into the comedy of God’s unstoppable promise.

Why did God command Israel to “choose life” and then promise them they would fail and go into exile. In this sermon, we look at how the Law was ultimately not about moralism, but mercy, unpacking how Christ and the Cross fulfill the Law, turning the threat of death into a hopeful promise of rescue, return and life. 

Examining Luke 14:7-14 (and a little bit of Ecclesiasticus 10), we look at the problem of the arrogant pride of the self-righteous—whether ancient Pharisees or us today—and see how God's love and redemption are for sinners and all those who simply admit they cannot earn His grace.

We explore how Bartholomew—despite having only his name recorded in Scripture—personifies in the absence of his own story the dying to self and living wholly for Christ that is the mark of a faithful disciple.

We explore how this one faithful Jewish teenage girl somehow becomes the embodiment in Luke for the “restoration of Zion” in and as “the fullness of time,” when salvation is born of her, a woman, and how she is—in that— the first Christian and a figure of all Christians.

We conclude our sermon series on Colossians by exploring how Paul understands family and household relationships as our mirror of our life in Christ, calling us all—husbands, wives, children, slaves, and masters—to serve one another with Christ-like love and self-sacrificial obedience, reflecting the greater household of God, the Church. 

Our sermon series continues into Colossians 3, exploring what Paul means when he says that our old selves have died and our true new lives are hidden with Christ in God. How does that make us want to live differently now in light of the day coming when that new life will be fully revealed.

Our sermon series continues into Colossians 2, looking at Paul’s warning against mistaking religious practices and philosophies—the “shadows”—for the true “substance,” which is Christ Himself. 

We begin a short sermon series on Colossians, looking at how Paul in the first chapter sees creation and redemption blurring together in Christ, through whom all is reconciled to God.

The Rev. Dr. Canon Bill Henry, Canon to the Ordinary of the ACNA Diocese of Pittsburgh, explores the ramifications of Galatians 6.

We explore Peter and Paul as two faces of the Cross-shaped Christian life: Peter embodying failure met with forgiveness and a restored following of Christ; Paul exemplifying the life poured out as a witness to Christ’s sacrifice.