All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"As we hear again the familiar story of Jesus' call to the first disciples we hear him calling us into the good trouble of sacred resistance." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 22, 2017. Readings: Isaiah 9:1-4 and Matthew 4:12-23. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8HpPPyEQmY&feature=youtu.be . For more about the missi...

"Esther was a sister who knew what time it was: not a time for apathy or complacency, but a time to stand." Sermon by Delonte Gholston, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 15, 2017. Readings: Luke 6:27-36. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbiQPFT1ok&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saint...

"The economy of God is not transactional. The economy of God is grace." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 8, 2017. Readings: Isaiah 42:1-9 and Matthew 3:13-17. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB80XUfA2hg&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org a...

"Be what you see. Here. Now. And then remember what you're called to be in the days, weeks and months ahead: Be the Hope that rebellions are built on."  Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-4, 6-7 and Luke 2:1-14. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVlqLmPX_Y&feature=youtu.be . For...

"When we see others and ourselves as God sees us, we can see the secret beauty and depth of our hearts, the core of our reality, that no trauma or sin can touch." Sermon by Sally Howard, at All Saints Church Pasadena, on New Year's Day, Sunday, January 1, 2017. Reading: John 1:1-18. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZABB6GSq4c&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mi...

"My friends, I pray this day that the holy, living and compassionate God calls us to bring our creative and redeeming love into this world, so that we believe that we can make a difference and do what others claim cannot be done." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-4, 6-7 and Luke 2:1-14. Watch this sermon on Y...

"God's greatest gift to us -- the gift that came wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger -- is the poet's gift of wonder and hope." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Christmas Eve, Saturday, December 24, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-4, 6-7, Qur'an: Surah 3:45-48, and Luke 2:1-14. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXUgRFYLjNA&feature=you...

"The time for respectability is over. It is the time for solidarity." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 18, 2016. Readings: Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 and Matthew 1:18-25. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7C5U7vGQ8&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas...

"Mary was the Mother of the Revolution of Love and the Magnificat is her protest chant – a protest chant the church has spent 2000 years mansplaining in an effort to silence the radical power of her proclamation." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 11, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 35:1-10 and Matthew 11:2-11. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com...

"John isn't saying 'be ashamed: the end is near.' John is saying 'change your life: the beginning is near. Turn and receive new life!'" Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 4, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFdEYVzrHQ&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry...

"Advent is time for hope -- not a necessarily a time for patience. It is a time to use our collective righteous indignation as fuel for the holy work of resistance." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 27, 2016. Readings: Romans 13:11-14 and Matthew 24:36-44. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hOiyEDBGtM&feature=youtu.b...

"We must not let systems whose only desire is to perpetuate injustice and violence against the powerless, for the benefit of the powerful, use our theology against us. The mandate of forgiveness without repentance, and reconciliation without justice, is one of the biggest ways that our theology has been weaponized for use against the most vulnerable among us -- and it must stop." Sermon by Mike Ki...

"Activism is just part of following Jesus. If you look at what Jesus talks about and what Jesus calls us to do, activism is about action. And it's about action that says things the way they are aren't the way they should be." Podcast by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on November 16, 2016. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org...

"We solemnly vow that this church will never betray you...that you will always be welcome in this community and at this table, that your gifts of leadership and creativity will always be embraced, and if necessary, this very room will be your sanctuary, and we will stand between you and any who wish you harm." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 13, 2016. Rea...

"Tonight is time to bring all of who we are – our fears and our hopes, our grief and our gratitude, our dreams and our disappointments – to this altar. Tonight is a time to choose love." Homily by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Readings: Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 and Luke 21:5-19. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nz...

"Regardless of who wins this election, our calling as the church will remain the same, and our work will just be getting started." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on All Saints Sunday, November 6, 2016. Reading: Luke 6:20-31. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzOwn554EgY&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All S...

"All Saints is called to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable; and Mike Kinman is exactly the person to help you to both!" Sermon by Gene Robinson, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 30, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 1:10-18 and Luke 19:1-10. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E6JQyRptOQ&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission an...

"The recognition of love empowers a person to keep going with truth, courage, and confidence, almost no matter what." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 23, 2016. Readings: Sirach 35:12-17 and Luke 18:9-14. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUE7SY5k-ek&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Sa...

"To love something more than we fear death is to be truly alive." Sermon by Matthew Fox, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 16, 2016. Readings: Luke 18:1-8. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPgcRBM67yI&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Do...

"The point of the church is not what happens in the church. The point of the church is what happens in the world because of the church." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 9, 2016. Readings: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-5, 6b-7 and Luke 17:11-19. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUJ0k2v5Xc&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission an...

"Both Jesus and Francis call us to get out of our heads and into our hearts – a lifetime journey for some of us." Sermon by Gary Hall, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on St. Francis Sunday, October 2, 2016. Readings: Galatians 6:14-18 and Matthew 11:25-30. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgmFYVUejE&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All S...

"We need to hear the voices from the margins, because some truths can't be told from the top. Only then, can you develop compassion for the suffering we have been isolated from." Sermon by Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 25, 2016. Readings: I Timothy 6:11-19 and Luke 16:19-31. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch...

"God's freedom song is never a solo. God's freedom song is a song we sing together freeing us to remember that none of us are free until all of us are free." Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Homecoming Sunday, September 18, 2016. Readings: Amos 8:4-7 and Luke 16:1-13. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJzaZD_Jiho&feature=youtu.be . For more ab...

"Nothing that happens in this world is in vain if we will entrust it to God and then do our part...God doesn't expect us to sit back and wait for something to happen to us. God wants us to be actively involved." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 11, 2016. Readings: I Timothy 1:12-17 and Luke 15:1-10. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.yo...

"'In the face of fear, resistance is hope.' In choosing life we resist the fear that would waste our hearts and become instead the change we want to see." Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 4, 2016. Readings: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 and Luke 14:25-33. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB4eQo4fUJQ&feature=youtu.be . For m...