All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"This is my first reflection for you as I leave this community: Expect to grow. Expect to have your mind challenged. Expect to have your heart expanded. Cherish that dynamic -- openness to exploring faith together -- that is the heartbeat of All Saints Church." ~ James Walker Sermon by James Walker and Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 25, 2017. Readings: Ephesians 5:1...

"The God of radical egalitarianism calls us to leverage our power not for personal gain but always on behalf of the powerless." Sermon by John Taylor, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 18, 2017. Readings: Romans 5:1-8 and Matthew 9:35-10:8. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjUfb8sJOH8&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Sai...

"On this Trinity Sunday we "acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and worship the Unity" by celebrating those who march today for love, justice, compassion and resistance." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 11, 2017. Readings: Genesis 1:1-2:2 and Matthew 28:16-20. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruf2FqTfOdY&feature=youtu...

"The story of Pentecost, as it's told in the Book of Acts...reminds us that we are all part of a much larger community. A community that derives its true strength from the recognition and embrace of difference and diversity." Sermon by Jeremy Langill, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Pentecost & Youth Sunday, June 4, 2017. Readings: Acts 2:1-21; I Corinthians 12:3b-13 and John 20:19-23. Watch th...

"In the reading [from Acts], the Holy Spirit spoke to a crowd and they found that they could all understand what it was saying. It wasn't that they could all suddenly understand the common tongue, the Holy Spirit manifested itself in the native language of each listener. In doing so, it connected with each person and by extension their culture, their heritage and their homeland as well. This respe...

"It takes a lot of strength to see past someone's sexism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, etc., but somewhere deep inside of them there is the glimmer of a loving God. Inclusion and the promise of that glimmer is what we need to focus on, because we cannot fight hate with more hate." Sermon by Youth Preacher Andie Braun, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Pentecost & Youth Sunday, June 4, 2017....

"The Spirit is unique to all of us for we each give a different part of the Spirit. At the same time, we all participate in the life of the Spirit, and no one person's role is more important or less important than the other. Especially since the community is defined by the whole and not simply by its individual parts." Sermon by Youth Preacher Annmarette Vera, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Pe...

"Our reply to violence will be to love God more intensely and to bear the fruit of fearlessness in our resistance." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 28, 2017. Readings: I Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 and John John 17:1-11. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYkQV7kE6Y&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saint...

"I can't really participate in who God is, and the relationality of God, if I just stick to people who are like me. Because the thing about the Trinity is it's actually really diverse. We don't have three Christs. We have one Christ, and a Spirit, and a Creator, and they're all different." Sermon by Christena Cleveland, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 21, 2017. Readings: Acts 17:22-...

"It is not accidental that the Risen Jesus first entrusted to the women disciples the message that the cycle of violence could be broken." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 14, 2017. Readings: Acts 7:55-60 and John 14:1-14. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4omFqQupHY&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of Al...

"Our job is to make sure the gates are open, to make sure our minds are open and to make sure no sheep are left outside the fold." Sermon by Maryetta Anschutz, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Readings: Acts 2:42-47 and John 10:1-10. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2IEXwo_Ew8&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All S...

"Jesus provided the disciples with what all of us need to recover from horrendous pain and abandonment: loving, open presence." Sermon by Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 30, 2017. Readings: Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 and Luke 24:13-35. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsE-ztePeks&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and minis...

"You are not a people who hide in fear; you are a people who are sent in love." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, April 23, 2017. Readings: Matthew 21:1-11 and Matthew 26:14-27:66. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYB1c__JY40&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints...

"There were three resurrections on the third day, and this Easter Day celebrate all three of them." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017. Readings: Acts 10:34-43 and Matthew 28:1-10. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7unQSEMCM&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church vis...

"We must find ways to be God's hands, feet and heart in every moment, at all times, and for the right reasons." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017. Readings: Matthew 21:1-11 and Matthew 26:14-27:66. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8JVqc2TweM&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All...

"There is a moment when a body is no longer a person, and it is a moment that changes almost everything. And God is there." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 2, 2017. Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-45. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0q54LznuFE&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Sa...

"Sin is not about who we are, but about how we miss the mark as we live into who we are called to be." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 26, 2017. Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and John 9:1-41. See this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEOAsjYg4tE&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.a...

"Justice is a long journey, not a quick trip, and we are in a desert right now. But God will give us both living water and strength for the journey." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 19, 2017. Reading: Matthew 4:1-11. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9J6PFfa5A&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry...

"Faith unaccompanied by works is dead if the poor and hungry who come to us are sent away still poor and hungry." Sermon by Reza Aslan, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 21, 2017. Readings: James 2:14-17, 24-26 and John 3:1-16. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VdPAs3QIk&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church v...

"The wilderness is wherever we are challenged to resist those temptations to return to slavery, and instead trust completely in God and God's promise that we truly are God's first thing, God's first thought, God's first love." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 5, 2017. Reading: Matthew 4:1-11. Watch this video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BP7...

"We also need to learn that gratitude is a path up that mountain. That we find gratitude even for the brokenness. That we find gratitude even for the storms we experience on the way." Sermon by Becca Stevens, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 26, 2017. Readings: Exodus 24:12-18 and Matthew 17:1-9. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6KqTghtJJE...

"We must view one another as indispensable, for evil is eradicated when hearts are turned -- and there is no future without forgiveness." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 19, 2017. Readings: Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 and Matthew 5:38-48. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-mr3j-jis&feature=youtu.be . For more about the m...

"When we share comfort, healing, forgiveness, and acceptance with one another, we become one together, leaning and depending on one another. As community, we learn that we do not have to bear our burdens alone. We have each other." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 12, 2017. Readings: I Corinthians 3:1-9 and Matthew 5:21-22a, 23-25, 33-36a. You can watch...

"The same salt and light that was in Cesar and Dolores -- in Rosa and Martin – is Christ in us calling us to build God's community of love." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 5, 2017. Readings: I Corinthians 2:1-16 and Matthew 5:13-20. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLZk6EdgTvQ&feature=youtu.be For more about the mis...

"The good news is no matter how bad it gets we know that we have been there before -- and that God always shows up." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 29, 2017. Readings: Micah 6:1-8 and Matthew 5:1-12. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek280EH8eOU&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints...