All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"God decided to become one among us through a couple that today may represent more a refugee couple from Syria or Myanmar than the actors we grew up seeing in the movies about the nativity." A sermon by Antonio Gallardo at the Advent IV Morning Service on Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, 2017 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Romans 16:25-27 and Luke 1:26-38. See video and text here: ht...

"As followers of Jesus we were never supposed to be sensible. We are supposed to look at all the wounds and systems the world tells us that we are too poor and too powerless and too respectable to heal and change and say, "Oh yeah? Hold my beer and watch this!" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 17, 2017. Readings: I Thessalonians 5:16-24 and John 1:6-8, 19-2...

"Jesus was about hospitality, welcoming, entertaining, loving. We are to go and do likewise, as his hands and his feet and his eyes -- and do it in his name." Sermon by John Kilgore at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 10, 2017. Readings: II Peter 3:8-15a and Mark 1:1-8. For a text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/jesus-was-all-about-hospitality/...

"Lament is the power of truth that makes the powerful tremble and gives the powerless strength." A powerful sermon amplifying the voices of women lamenting the abuse and subjugation experienced by women through the ages – and calling the church to break its silent complicity in the creation of a culture that dehumanizes women. For further reading, see the work of the Reverend Dr. Wil Gaffney and h...

"Jesus is calling us out of our frantic busyness into the healing of the world through deep relationships of time, presence and love." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 26, 2017. Readings: Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Matthew 25:31-46. For a text and video of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/stop-listen-love/ . You can also follow us o...

"God has sent us a text. God has sent us a 66 chapter text, a story of God's agonizing courtship of the Creator's desire to be in perfect union with the created. Scripture is God's love letter." Sermon by John Taylor at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 19, 2017. Readings: Thessalonians 5:1-11 and Matthew 25:14-30. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.o...

"What we are called to be "woke" about is our commitment to justice, love, inclusion and compassion as our primary vocation." Sermon by Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 12, 2017. Readings: Amos 5:18, 20-14 and Matthew 25:1-13. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/staying-woke-for-the-long-haul/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpa...

"The Beatitudes are the aroma of unconditional acceptance, unconditional love, unconditional blessing." Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on All Saints Sunday, November 5, 2017. Readings: Matthew 5:1-12. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/memory-can-make-us-love-the-strangest-things/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to supp...

"Like a good coach, Jesus not only tells us but shows us how to love God and love our neighbor as ourselves." Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 29, 2017. Readings: Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 and Matthew 22:34-46. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/baseball-as-a-path-to-god-and-gods-abundant-love/ . You can also follow us on T...

"Sure, Jesus said 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's' but then he finishes the sentence. 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, but give to God what is God's.'" Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 22, 2017.  Readings: Exodus 33:12-23 and Matthew 22:15-22. For a text and video of the sermon, visit our website:  https://allsaints-pas.org/the-golden-calf-the-gift-and-the...

"Human beings -- it turns out -- are endlessly creative about what we can turn into idols." Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 15, 2017.  Readings: Exodus 32:7-14 and Matthew 22:1-14. For a text of the sermon, visit our website:  https://allsaints-pas.org/the-golden-calf-the-gift-and-the-giver/ . You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support t...

"Far from Israel's moral core, we are a nation where 'you shall not murder' has become a suggestion, and 'you shall not steal' is enforced with a gun and a prison cell if you are wearing a hoodie, and ignored with a wink and a nod if you are wearing a suit..." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 8, 2017.  Readings: Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 and Matthew 21:33-4...

"The deepest grace and healing comes from being present to each other in communities of holy companionship." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Blessing of the Animals Sunday, October 1, 2017.  Readings: Philippians 2:1-13 and Matthew 21:23-32. For a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-healing-power-of-holy-companionship/ . You can also follo...

"Jesus shows us how to live in God -- freeing us to stand against all that stands against love." Sermon by Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 24, 2017.  Readings: Exodus 16:2-15 and Matthew 20:1-16. For a text and video of the sermon, visit: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-economy-of-grace/ You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to...

"The welcome table shows the world what is possible when we live in love and not in fear. It is both our legacy and our destiny." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Homecoming Sunday, September 17, 2017.  Readings: A Reading from "Find Your Way Home" and Matthew 18:21-35. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sxdt_vf8wBg . For a text of the sermon, visit o...

"If the clear truth of Scripture tells us anything it tells us that following Jesus rattles cages and rocks boats and disturbs the peace." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 10, 2017.  Readings: Readings from Hebrew Scriptures and Matthew 18:15-20. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://youtu.be/0xjCNWbKB_8 . For a text of the sermon, visit our w...

"Maybe God is angry at how we humankind have messed up the lifegiving cycles of the earth that God created, and the earth is reacting with these angry storms. There's still a lesson in that. And the wrath of God brings us back down to the ground level of what it means to be human. That we need each other, despite our differences." Sermon by Eric Law, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, Sept...

"Paul reminds us that as an offering to God, we are holy and we are enough. Let those words rest on your heart for a moment, because we are not used to thinking of ourselves that way." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 27, 2017.  Readings: Romans 12:1-8 and Matthew 16:13-20. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://youtu.be/F2bMY3USgzY . For a text of...

"We need to understand that when we strive for justice, we are all called to name injustice within our community. Not just when it's done for your own group, but you can name injustice on behalf of any group that you see is being oppressed." Sermon by Antonio Gallardo, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 20, 2017. Readings:  Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 and Matthew 15:21-28. You can watch this s...

"The Jungian analyst James Hollis tells us that the pathology of the nation is the sum of the unaddressed shadows of its citizens. 'What has been denied in the individual will create monsters in the tribe,' he writes." Sermon by Margaret Cunningham, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 13, 2017.  Readings: Romans 10:5-15, Psalms 85:8-13 and Matthew 14:22-33. You can watch this sermon...

"The Church has anointed Respectable White Male Jesus: God has not. Together let us work to transfigure Jesus back to the Jesus of the Gospel." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 6, 2017. Readings: Exodus 34:29-35 and Luke 9:28-36. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Hy5OnJ0Matw . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Churc...

Sermon by Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 23, 2017.  For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at http://www.allsaints-pas.org/support/donate/ .

Sermon by Charleen Crean, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 16, 2017. Readings: Isaiah 55:10 -13 and Matthew 13:1-23. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at http://www.allsaints-pas.org/support/donate/ .

"As members of the Jesus Movement we are called to bring God's rhythm of love and justice to every corner of the world." Sermon by Norma Guerra, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 9, 2017. Readings: Romans 7:15-25a and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy2Urz3n60k&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All S...

"Let us make our own Declaration: that we will not rest until the hunt is finally over and our words of freedom and liberation are not just an aspiration but a reality." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 2, 2017. Readings: Deuteronomy 10:17-21 and Matthew 5:43-48. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_UE9DdZR4&feature=youtu.be . For...