All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"To follow Jesus is to challenge doctrines that destroy with as much passion in our day as Jesus did in his." Sermon by Antonio Gallardo at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 3, 2018. Readings: II Corinthians 4:5-12 and Mark 2:23-3:6. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/challenging-doctrines-that-destroy/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @A...

"Let us claim this moment and turn it into the movement the world is waiting for -- a movement of love, justice and compassion rooted in the unassailable truth of God's inexhaustible love for absolutely every single member of the human family." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Trinity Sunday, May 27, 2018. Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8 and John 3:1-17. For video and the text of...

"On this Feast of Pentecost we celebrate the Holy Spirit and her message of love that knows no language and knows every language." Sermon by Mike Kinman and Antonio Gallardo at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Pentecost Sunday, May 20, 2018. Readings: Acts 2:1-21 and John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15. For video and the text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/today-we-remember-there-i...

"Jesus prays that we would see the truth: that the disordered chaos of division, hatred and fear is not reality — is not truth. What is truth — what is real — is the story of love." Sermon by Diana Butler Bass at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 13, 2018. Readings: Psalm 1 and John 17:6-19. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-cosmos-of-lo...

"To live the Gospel is to follow the follower and to serve the server; to take risks for and with each other; and to remember that fear is the death knell of joy." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 6, 2018. Readings: Psalm 98 and John 15:9-17. For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/improv-followers-of-an-improv-jesus/ . Y...

"This common identity as God's beloved children is the only sure rock from which to build our identities. From this secure base we can become aware of how our cultural group memberships can overrun our common identity as all of God's children." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 29, 2018. Readings: I John 4:7-21 and John 15:1-8. For video and a text of the serm...

"Not trusting that we are fully loved is killing us — and so we listen for the voice of the Good Shepherd telling us we are both fully known and fully loved. And that there is enough love for everyone." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 15, 2018. Readings: I John 3:16-24 and John 10:11-18. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-p...

"Can we become a community that has the courage of Jesus? Can we be a community where even when we have wounded each other, we stick together and give each other something to eat?" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 15, 2018. Readings: Acts 3:12-19 and Luke 24:36b-48. For video and the text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/when-a-wonde...

"The great Easter truth is not that we are going to live newly after death, but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 8, 2018. Readings: Acts 4:32-35 and John 20:19-31. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/breathe-on-us-fill-us-send-us/ . You can also f...

"The time for pain is over and the time for truth has come. What is your truth that must be told? Go and tell!" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018. Readings: Acts 10:34-43 and Mark 16:1-8. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/go-and-tell/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the m...

"The love that stands in solidarity with the suffering of others has power no empire can withstand. Only love has the power to make us safe." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018. Readings: Mark 11:1-11a. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/palm-sunday-was-a-march-for-our-lives/ . You can also follow us on...

"Throughout the ages there have been prophets of God who have showed up and called BS on hopelessness. And I am so grateful for the young prophets standing up today to call BS on the gun culture in our nation." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 and John 12:20-33. For text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://...

"Who we are as All Saints Church has everything to do with how we read John 3:16." "What does it look like for all Saints Church to trust that love is greater than fear — and to respond in a way that looks like God's radical love lived out loud?" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 11, 2018. Readings: Ephesians 2:1-10 and John 3:14-21. For a text of the sermon, v...

"Join us in the journey of finding the peace that passes understanding in the wilderness." Sermon by Becca Stevens at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 4, 2018. Readings: Exodus 20:1-17 and John 2:13-22. For text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/just-keep-weaving/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministr...

"We are going to listen to and follow these young leaders who have embraced both their anger and their impatience as tools to dismantle systemic evil." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 25, 2018. Readings: Psalm 22:22-30 and Mark 8:31-38. For video and text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/a-wrinkle-in-conventional-wisdom/ . You...

"God's very first words in the very first Gospel are these: 'You are my Beloved. My own. On you my favor rests.' These words were not just for Jesus of Nazareth. These words were and are for us all." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 18, 2018. Readings: Mark 1:9-15. For a text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-only-eve...

"God calls us down off the mountain into the valley of oppression to fight for liberation with the Light of Christ that dispels all darkness." Sermon by Nancy Frausto at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 11, 2018. Readings: II Corinthians 4:3-6 and Mark 9:2-9. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/off-the-mountain-into-the-streets/ . You can also fol...

"The goal here is not a reversal of position, which the Eurocentric mindset views as the only possibility. It's not. The goal is a different relationship altogether that does not involve domination or oppression." Sermon by Brinell Anderson at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 4, 2018. Readings: Psalm 147:1-12, 21c and Mark 1:29-39. For text and video of the sermon, visit our websit...

"Youth have their own voice. In a society that states 'children are the hope of the future,' we need to empower children and youth to use that voice." Sermon by Annmarette Vera at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 28, 2018. Readings: Deuteronomy 18:15-20 and Mark 1:21-28. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/who-has-the-wisdom/ . You can also follow...

"To follow Jesus is to be the "as if" presence in our time as Jesus was in his — to not only protest what must change but to be proactive in creating what should be." Sermon by Kelly Brown Douglas at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 21, 2018. Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 and Mark 1:14-20. For a text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/being-church-in-d...

"Prophetic resistance is only possible for those who can still dream ... those who can imagine a better world while they are awake." Sermon by Traci Blackmon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 14, 2018. Readings: I Samuel 3:1-10 and John 1:43-51. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/where-are-the-dreamers/ . You can also...

"What if when we govern in ways that crush, limit, diminish the image of God -- and the call and capacity of people to exercise dominion -- and the fastest ways to do that are through poverty and oppression -- what if when we govern in those ways we are actually declaring war against God?" Sermon by Lisa Sharon Harper at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 7, 2018. Readings: Psalm 72:1...

"Healing sometimes is about cure, but not always. However, healing is always about wholeness." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 31, 2017. Readings: Galatians 3:23-25, 4:4-7 and John 1:1-18. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/gods-healing-power-in-our-lives/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support t...

"Christmas is the sound of chaos. It is the sound of hearts breaking and prison doors bursting. Christmas was not a silent night. It was full of the sound that terrified the shepherds... The sound through which God sings, 'You are not alone.'" A sermon by Mike Kinman at the 8:00 p.m. Festive Eucharist on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, 2017 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-...

"Love came down to empower us in the cosmic struggle between the Good News of love, justice and inclusion, and the Fake News of fear, judgment and discrimination." A sermon by Susan Russell at the 5:30 p.m. Festive Eucharist on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, 2017 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-3, 6-7 and Luke 2:1-14. See video and text here: https://allsaints-pas.org/lov...