All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"Whatever happens Tuesday, or any day, our mission of love remains the same. And we will claim the power of that love. And we will not shrink back from the challenges of each moment, and we will hold each other when we get weary, and catch each other when we fall. And like the saints before us, together we will love and cry and laugh. Together we will show mercy and make peace and walk humbly, tog...

"Jesus stopped. And Jesus listened. And Jesus loved. And healing happened. But first … Jesus stopped. And if Jesus can stop, can we? We can. As Dr. King said standing over the bodies of those young girls in Birmingham, "God still has a way of wringing good out of evil." It can begin with the smallest of things."   Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 28, 2018. R...

"We are in a moment where our hope for God's kindom come on earth requires us to equip ourselves to navigate the geography of reality as we journey forward together."   Sermon by Antonio Gallardo at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 21, 2018. Readings: Hebrews 5:1-10 and Mark 10:35-45. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/when-the-geography...

"God's economy is that we are to share. For everything we have, everything we do, everything we are, is a gift from God. It's a gift from God and it's meant to be shared. We're to share from our first fruits, not the dregs that are left over."   Sermon by Diane Jardine Bruce at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 14, 2018. Readings: Hebrews 4:12-16 and Mark 10:17-31. For video and a te...

"In this creation story in Genesis we have confused the timeless poetry of the electricity of human connection with a frozen-in-time snapshot of an early moment in our ever-evolving understand of the wonder of gender and sexuality. Too often, we have used this story to dominate rather than to liberate, preaching a scriptural mandate of gender binaries, hetero and cis-normativity that we now know h...

"Francis found out that God was everywhere, not only in church. God was in the trees and the sun and the moon and the flowers and the animals. God was also in all of the people. It made Francis so happy. His heart was full of love, and he had friends wherever he went. Francis was rich in love."   Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on St. Francis Sunday, September 30, 2018. Read...

"Our greatest act of resistance is to remember that the power of joy is greater than any evil."   Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 23, 2018. Readings: James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a and Mark 9:30-37. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/joy-anyway/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Dona...

"That's what it means to come home to All Saints Church. Where we get free of the narratives that have bound us. Where liberation begins within."   Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Homecoming Sunday, September 16, 2018. Readings: Wisdom of Solomon 7:26-8:1 and Mark 8:27-38. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/shhh-its-contraband/...

"To refuse to believe that nothing matters anymore is to embrace the Gospel as manifesto for regime change -- a prayer at a time, a protest at a time, an election at a time, an inch at a time."   Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 9, 2018. Readings: Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 and Mark 7:24-37. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https:/...

"Our bodies, our sexuality, are of the greatest power there is. It is the power of joy for joy's sake and love for love's sake. The power of creation and generativity. It is the very power of God." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 2, 2018. Readings: Song of Solomon 2:8-13 and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website:...

"When John's Jesus says 'no one can come to the Father except by me,' and the Church says that means Jesus and the Christian faith is the only way to God - Yes, that is a stumbling block for me." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 26, 2018. Readings: Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 and John 6:56-69. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints...

"If we are going to find healing inside of us, or in our communities, then we must provide space for words that might offend us. Words that might offend our sensibilities or upset our realities. We have to be willing to embody a theology that sits in unrest." Sermon by Yolanda Norton at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 19, 2018. Readings: Proverbs 9:1-6, Ephesians 5:15-20 and John 6:...

"When you come every Sunday and worship with us, in addition to that Spirit of Gilead that makes you feel loved, hopeful, and at peace, you are also feeding the trouble-maker spirit, the spirit of resistance, the spirit that knows that the Kingdom of God is in the making; you are feeding the game-changer within you." Sermon by Antonio Gallardo at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 12,...

"You are enough. We are enough. There is enough." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 5, 2018. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/enough/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/ . YouTube https://youtu.be/https://you...

"When we tether our imagination to God's imagination we can swim in a sea of abiding love instead of a sea of anxiety." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 29, 2018. Readings: Ephesians (3:14-21) and John (6:1-21). For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/choosing-the-images-that-shape-our-lives/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @...

"Today, we are conspiring to revolution. At least, dear God, I hope we are. For the empires of this world have done their level and highly successful best to squeeze the revolution out of the church." from sermon preached by Mike Kinman at the July 21, 2018 ordination of Lauren Grubaugh as a deacon.

"Everybody wants to be free but nobody wants to grieve. In order to encounter the risen Christ Mary Magdalene must move through lament to be liberated by love — and so must we." Sermon by Lauren Grubaugh at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. Readings: Judith (9:1, 11-14) and II Corinthians (5:14-18). For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/new-web...

"I believe we left Austin a sanctuary church with expansive language and marriage for all precisely because we are becoming more fully the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement we have been challenged to be." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Readings: Amos 7:7-15 and Mark 6:14-29. For video and the text of the sermon, visit our website: https://all...

"Let me be clear, acceptance is not resignation. Acceptance is the awareness, acknowledgement and assessment of reality. Resignation is a condition of accomodation, defeat and silence. This is what false prophets counsel, assuring us that everything is just fine." Sermon by Margaret Cunningham at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 8, 2018. Readings: Ezekiel 2:1-5 and Mark 6:1-13. For vid...

"This nation has aspirational values that are the best of what humanity can be. There is a heart here that is good. And that means for as long as there has been a nation there has been a struggle. There has been a struggle between our deep belief in equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the dominant economic and white supremacist imperatives that permeate the structures of our s...

"It is from the sure foundation of loving kindness that we call BS on the hijacking of the God of love, justice and compassion in the service of an agenda of hate, division and condemnation." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 24, 2018. Readings: Job 38:1-11, Psalm 107:1-3, 23-32 and Mark 4:35-41. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://a...

"What we fear, God chooses. What we shame, God anoints." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 17, 2018. Readings: I Samuel 15:34-16:13 and Mark 4:26-34. For video and the text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/isnt-there-one-more/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at htt...

"I know I will always struggle at times, and I've learned to be OK with that. One thing that will never change is that I will never stop looking for ways to bring Eden to Earth. Especially for people like me. We all need to be vulnerable. Our vulnerability is our strength." Sermon by Emma Baker at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Youth Sunday, at 9:00 a.m., June 10, 2018. Readings: Genesis 3:8-15,...

"I feel like this scripture can be a reminder to the perfectionist in all of us. Reminding us to look beyond our small mistakes and struggles, and instead focusing on what is eternal -- love and compassion." Sermon by Hannah Berry at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Youth Sunday, at 7:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., June 10, 2018. Readings: Genesis 3:8-15, II Corinthians 4:13-5:1 and Mark 3:20-35. For video...

"The plans you make are only temporary, but what you dream about has eternal possibilities. So why not make these dreams a reality by just doing it?" Sermon by Denis Makhlin at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Youth Sunday, at 11:15 a.m., June 10, 2018. Readings: Genesis 3:8-15, II Corinthians 4:13-5:1 and Mark 3:20-35. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.or...