All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

Meditation by Ava King, Lola Piñon, Josie Hooten and Charis Graham for Advent Evening Service at 5:00 p.m. on the Third Sunday of Advent, December 12, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Watch the meditation on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at ht...

"Our Lady of Guadalupe, by her dazzling miraculous image, is opening the door to the sacred, and guides us into the Holy mystery. The mystery of the incarnation. She guides us into a God who would enter human life. She is showing us the future. In her womb she is carrying the Messiah, the Christ, the one who will announce the good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom to the captives, to give sigh...

"Before we run out of Advent, let us savor every last minute of this time of preparation as we gather to pause in the struggle in order to be re-energized to engage it.  And to remind ourselves and each other of the power of the Christmas promise we prepare to celebrate." Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Phili...

Homily by Mike Kinman from Lessons & Carols at 5:00 p.m. on the Second Sunday of Advent, December 5, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/ .

"If God's love. If God's grace. If God's forgiveness has to be earned … then we have power over God. By our action or inaction, we can tell God who to love. We can tell God who to forgive.  But that's not who God is. God simply loves everyone … there are no books that have to balanced, there is no system that can be gamed. We don't have to earn forgiveness… You. Are. Forgiven." Sermon by Mike Kinm...

" I do not know if you have heard this, but someone once said that worries are like prayers for what you don't want. " Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 28, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 25:1-9 and Luke 21:25-36. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Faceboo...

" Just as we have moved from enslavement to mass incarceration, we have moved from crucifixion to lynching to extrajudicial executions by police and vigilante enforcement of white supremacy. After changes upon changes, we are more or less the same. After changes, we are more or less the same. The court told us what we already knew. The world is not safe if you have black or brown skin. Expect no p...

" The revolutionary Jesus I know dances on tables with her heels in her hand and stumbles back home as the sun creeps over the horizon. The revolutionary Jesus I know dances furiously, seductively, with abandon, with joy. The revolutionary Jesus I know knows the feelings that come with dancing and that come from watching each other dance can be scary because they are so powerful … and that is prec...

" Wendell Berry was right. We are those wild geese. Generation upon generation upon generation endlessly flying beyond the sight of any one person or point in time. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds us to our way – clear in the ancient faith. And what is that ancient faith?  That what we need is here.  That God our creator is also God our provider. That God's Holy Spirit is not just a theologica...

"God isn't interested in controlling us, but re-aligning and empowering us with the breath of life that we may be friends of God and guardians of God's Spirit in each other and all that exists." Sermon by Sally "Leia" Howard from worship at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 31, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: I Samuel 28:3–25, Ezekiel 37:1–14 and John 11:17–45. Watch the sermon on YouTub...

"Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Are you hurting? Are you tired?  Oh my God, thank you for asking. I still might be afraid to give you my real answer. But at least you are opening the door. At least you are giving me the opportunity. At least you are giving truth a chance, to take her first breath, to make her first cry. And Jesus knows the answer before we can open our mouths. It's why he asks t...

"Words have energy and power; words have the ability to build up or tear down, encourage or manipulate, Illuminate or deceive." Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 17, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 58 and Luke 6:43–45. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on...

"We are all called to the work of the prophet: to serve as antibodies to the pandemic of polarization by living into the both/and call to afflict the comfortable and to comfort the afflicted." Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 9:00 and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 10, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 50: 14–23 and Mark 6:1–6. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text o...

"My entire life, I have been searching for that space behind my mother's chair … and I wonder if you have been, too.  That safe place I can squeeze into not with someone who is perfect, but with others who struggle as I do, as we all do, with balancing the hope that we are loved and safe with the reality of all the times we have not been.  In whispers being able to have the conversations we do not...

"I wonder … what would Bathsheba's telling of the story look like? I can scarcely imagine … and yet I know there are those among us here who can imagine only too well. Who have your own stories of violation and imprisonment, abuse and rape. Of being told you are responsible for men's actions because of how you look or act or dress. Of being judged if your body is unappealing to a man and being tol...

"We did not go through everything we have been through these past 18 months – that we are still going through -- to have this world be the same … to have us be the same … as we were before this all started. As if it ever could! As if we ever could! We have been challenged and we have been changed … and we are still being challenged and we are still being changed … and there is a gift amidst the pa...

Sermon by Ani Zonneveld from worship at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, September 12, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 71:1–6 and Matthew 6:9–13. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . View the entire 11:15 a.m. service for September 12, 2021 , on YouTube. Follow along with the service leaflet here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebo...

"Nunca volveremos a reunirnos así. Es hora de una nueva etapa en nuestro viaje.  Dios no ha terminado de soñar con nosotros. Dios no ha terminado de soñar a través de nosotros.  Y a medida que viajamos juntos, con cada paso ... estamos un paso más cerca del cielo." "We will never gather again quite like this.  It is time for a new stage in our journey.  God is not done dreaming with us.  God is no...

"Jesus calls us to be whole hearted, trusting in our worthiness and allowing ourselves to be seen and known for who we really are." Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, September 5, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: James 2:8–13 and Mark 7:14–23. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . View the entire 11:15 a.m. service for September 5,...

"Jesus calls us to be whole hearted, trusting in our worthiness and allowing ourselves to be seen and known for who we really are." Sermon by Sally Howard for Bilingual Spanish/English Worship at All Saints Church, Pasadena at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 5, 2021. Readings: Santiago 2:8–13 y San Marcos 7:14–23. Watch the sermon on video on YouTube . View the entire 1:00 p.m. service for Septembe...

"A Jesus who weeps. A Jesus who calls us out of our hiding places. A Jesus who says, "I am going to meet you where you are" "I am going to stay with you tonight" is a Jesus who stands among us and tells us that grieving, that weeping is definitely about vulnerability and it isn't a sign of weakness or lack of faith but of strength an love. That grieving, that weeping is about being truly human and...

"Y es así, que después del domingo doce de septiembre, ya no tendremos un servicio religioso a la una de la tarde en la Iglesia de Todos los Santos… Y... seguiremos soñando con un nuevo y emocionante futuro... y espero que seas parte de ese sueño. Soñaremos con una nueva oportunidad de reunirnos para el servicio religioso en español. Soñaremos con nuevos maneras  para que los miembros latinos-hisp...

"We cannot let the memory of the way things used to be become our God. Because if we do, we will become enslaved to its production, we will never heal and we will never be free. This is one of those moments where we have to break the rules. Where we have to let go of the expectations. This is one of those moments where we have to realize the rules and expectations are holding us in fear rather tha...

"Traemos todo nuestro ser a las tierras fronterizas ... y la única manera de sobrevivir es sin frontera. La única manera de sobrevivir ... está en esta mesa. La única manera de sobrevir... es ser una encrucijada." "We bring our whole selves to the borderlands … and the only way to survive is sin frontera. The only way to survive … is at this table. The only way to survive … is to be a crossroads."...

"Our loving God wants to be in relationship with us. God wants to be in union and communion with all of us. God wants us to be in union with each other. Our loving God wants us to find the right destination." Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, August 15, 2021 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Hebrews 1:1–9 and Matthew 5:33–37. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Re...