All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"Where is God as we journey through this sometimes dark and dreary land? God dwells in us ... God dwells in you." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 12, 2019. Reading: Psalm 23 and John 10:22-30. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/god-dwells-in-you/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mis...

"When we love, justice and revolution are not burden or responsibility but passion and opportunity." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 5, 2019. Reading: Psalm 30 and John 21:1-19. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/revolutionaries-for-love/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and...

"We are the people of the Resurrection and our Endgame is dismantling all that stands between the world as God created it to be and the world as it has become." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 28, 2019. Reading: Psalm 118:14-23 and John 20:19-31. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/alive-here-and-now-by-the-power...

"Are you tired of singing the same old song? Do you want to sing a redemption song?" Sermon by Andre Henry and Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019. Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25 and Luke 24:1-12. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/redemption-song/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mis...

"The crowd chose, Pilate pronounced sentence and the church finished the job. Despite confessing a Gospel of love the church writ large has sided with the powerful over the oppressed; the rich over the poor. What will we choose?" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, April 14, 2019. Reading: Luke 19:28-40. For video and the text of the sermon, visit our website: htt...

"Love is an endless mystery: one we cannot explain, only experience and share extravagantly — reminding ourselves and each other of our own power to be bearers of that love in the world." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 7, 2019. Readings: Psalm 126 and John 12:1-8. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-power-of-ext...

"The story of the prodigal son is a miracle story - the story of going home. But we can't just wait for each other to show up back home ... we are called to meet each other in the slop: loving each other where we are and sitting with each other without judgment." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 31, 2019. Readings: II Corinthians 5:16-21 and Luke 15:1-3, 11b-3...

"Difference is not a cause for separation but a sign of the creative richness of God. Imagine if the energy we used to create borders to keep us separated was employed to build pathways to bring us together." Sermon by Kelly Brown Douglas at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 24, 2019. Readings: Exodus 3:1-15 and Luke 13:1-9. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https:...

"When we individualize sin and weaponize it with shame, we forget that the heart of sin is a breakdown in relationship -- with God, with each other, with creation." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 10, 2019. Readings: Luke 4:1-13. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-power-of-kol-nidrei-and-tshuvah/ . You can als...

"For nearly 2000 years the church has valued rules over radiance — veiling the faces of those transfigured by God's liberating love because the change they represent made it uncomfortable. It's time to lose the veils and be open to the change." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 3, 2019. Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 and Luke 9:28-43. For video and a text of the ser...

"In a world that is crying for retribution and submission we will be a voice of restoration." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 24, 2019. Readings: Genesis 45:3-11, 15 and Luke 6:27-38. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/living-love-out-loud/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the miss...

"Freedom from the fear of risking change because we might be wrong frees us to get it right — by opening new doors, challenging old assumptions, chancing new undertakings." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 17, 2019. Readings: Luke 6:17-26. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/what-would-it-mean-to-actually-follo...

"Unlearning the ways of the system means routing out the domination, aggression and violence we have internalized into our own lives which are dulling our minds and stopping our ears." Sermon by angel Kyodo williams at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 10, 2019. Readings: Isaiah 6:1-13, and Luke 5:1-11. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org...

"When our identity is rooted in God's love — something we can never lose — we are liberated to act not out of fear of what we might lose, but out of trust that love never dies." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 3, 2019. Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10, and Luke 4:21-30. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-limitless...

"I have decided to receive my diagnosis as an invitation to get closer to life." Sermon by Tracey Lind at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 27, 2019. Readings: I Corinthians 12:12-31a, and Luke 4:14-21. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/dementia-from-the-inside-out-living-life-as-a-pilgrimage/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas....

"What I'm very clear about is if one of my sons decided to go into their classroom when they get back to school next week and spew some of the name calling that the President of the United States is permitted to do, they would immediately be suspended or maybe even expelled. And so what we're saying is that we're holding our 5th graders to a higher standard than the President of the United States....

"We all need healing. We need the prayers of others for us, and we need God to help us grow toward our belovedness. We all need the loving touch that we give permission for. But, it's not always easy to be open to God's presence." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Healing Sunday, January 13, 2019. Readings: Isaiah 43:1-7, and Luke 3:15-17, 21-22. For a video and the text of...

"The pilgrim's journey is often through the place we fear the most but the good news is it never leaves us there … for its destination is the place of deepest love." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Readings: Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-pilgrims-journey/ . You ca...

"God's saving power emerges again and again from the margins and calls us to the work of mutual redemption." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 23, 2018. Readings: Micah 5:2-5a, Canticle 15 and Luke 1:39-45. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/a-kairos-moment-of-divine-possibility/ . You can also follow us on Twit...

Juggling Jeff Koziatek brought joy to All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Joy Sunday, December 16, 2018. Readings: Philippians 4:4-7 and Luke 3:7-18. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/claiming-the-joy-of-gods-indestructible-love/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pa...

"Forgiveness is when we lay down our armor and our sword, meet pain with compassion and say: 'May I have a hug?'" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 9, 2018. Readings: Philippians 1:3-11 and Luke 3:1-6. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/where-does-it-hurt/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to su...

"What makes us human is beyond the reach of the algorithms — and so it is what the algorithm fears most: compassion, love and the capacity to see and treasure the divine in each other." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 2, 2018. Readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16 and Luke 21:25-36. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/how...

"Every time I am face-to-face with another person there is the opportunity for each of us to meet and be changed by the presence of God in the other."   Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 25, 2018. Readings: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 and John 18:33-38. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/what-is-truth/ . You can also fo...

"What will ultimately matter is not how high we can build but how deeply we can love."   Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 18, 2018. Readings: Psalm 16 and Mark 13:1-8. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website:  https://allsaints-pas.org/there-is-smoke-in-the-air-and-blood-in-the-soil/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to suppo...

"Crossing the boundary between what is and what ought to be is literally our job description as Christians: to make that kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven not just a prayer we pray but a reality we live."   Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 11, 2018. Readings: I Kings 17:8-16, Psalm 146 and Mark 12:38-44. For video and a text of the sermon, visit ou...