All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"Traditions are good things. Every church has them. But our traditions should never stand in the way of God's command to love our neighbor." Sermon by the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 30, 2015. Readings: James 1:17-27 and Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPycsSaZv3c&feature=youtu.be. For more about th...

"Only a person who is truly valued and freely loved can love freely other people. God's powerful, inexhaustable love makes the idea of hell incoherent." Sermon by the Rev. Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 23, 2015. Readings: Psalm 34:15-22 and John 6:56-69. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzT9oX0syg&feature=youtu.be. For more about th...

"What Jesus is saying when he says eat my flesh and drink my blood, he's saying 'enter my passion, my passion of liberation, my passion of salvation, in a very real way!'" Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 16, 2015. Readings: I Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14, Ephesians 5:15–20 and John 6:51–58. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch...

"What I can tell you is that if you trust God enough to try...if you trust God enough to let go of your fear of failure and your hunger for success, there is bread for you that will never run out. There is life for you with abundance beyond imagination." Sermon by the Rev. Nathaniel Katz, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 9, 2015. Readings: Ephesians 4:25-5:2 and John 6:35, 41-51....

"Is it possible that our striving for more is a misdirected yearning for less?" Sermon by Jon Dephouse, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Readings: Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 and John 6:24-35. 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...

"As new Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the U.S., Michael Curry, said, 'Nothing can stop the movement of God's love in this world!" Sermon by Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 28, 2015. Readings: Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24 and Mark 5:22-24, 35b-43. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygps_Vtybjg&feature=youtu.be. For more abou...

"Patriotism without criticism has no head. Criticism without patriotism has no heart." Sermon by Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 5, 2015. Readings: Deuteronomy 10:17-21 and Matthew 5:43-48. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJfrVdvSubM&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pa...

"I could rant about the evils of racism and hate, but I am not. Rather I want to talk about hope and the fiercely transforming power of grace." Sermon by Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 21, 2015. Readings: 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 and Mark 4:35-41. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JTkIjH4EP0&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and...

"So my friends, we are called to mustard seed transformation, growth and leadership. Keep coming to church this summer, during this season of growth and transformation." Sermon by Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 14, 2015. Readings: Ezekiel 17:22-24, 2 Corinthians 5:6-7, 11, 14-17 and Mark 4:26-34. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv98RGdpaII...

"The Trinitarian God: a forcefield of love, reconciliation and healing!" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 31, 2015. Readings: Isaiah 6:1-8 and John 3:1-17. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2KKhZObBR4&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow...

"If Christianity is shrinking it's because Christians have shrunk it – and the Spirit of Pentecost is calling us to expand it!" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2015. Readings: Acts 2:1-11 and John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUYDk3OL4Y&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and...

"Leaders who follow Jesus love others into becoming their best selves." Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 17, 2015. Readings: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 and John 17:6-19. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5115p-38Pc&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.o...

"The hardest to learn is that love your neighbor as yourself means all of your neighbors all of the time. #Period." Sermon by the Rev. Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 10, 2015. Readings: Acts 10:44-48 and John 15:9-17. Watch this video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI9yywL2I8I&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Chur...

"God's love is the sap flowing through the vine--flushing out the fear that is the opposite of faith." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 3, 2015. Readings: 1 John 4:7-21 and John 15:1-8. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEN14NMk3j8&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www...

Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 26, 2015. Readings: 1 John 3:16-24 and John 10:11-18. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7d_23-U-s&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. Donate to support the mission and ministries...

Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 19, 2015. Readings: 1 John 3:1-7 and Luke 24:36b-48. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ioe_1E3TLA&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. Donate to support the mission and mini...

"The lesson I encourage you to learn from Thomas is that it is OK to doubt. It is OK to question and to seek. Because Thomas the doubter becomes Thomas the believer not in spite of his doubts but thanks to his doubts." Sermon by the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 12, 2015. Readings: Acts 4:32-35 and John 20:19-31. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.yo...

"We have been sold a bill of potbound goods my friends, by thinking that God's major concern is correcting mistakes and punishing sins and rewarding righteousness so that was the reason God sent Jesus into the world as the problem solver for sin. NO! For God so loved the world that God gave his only begotten son. The Christ is God's love for us, for all of us." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All...

"To have the mind of Christ in us is to interrupt and dismantle whatever is crucifying anyone; to transform pain and trauma into love and justice." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, March 29, 2015. Reading: Mark 11:1-11 and Mark 14:1-15:47. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii7dB4EvLSE&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mis...

"To know Jesus is to follow Jesus; to know the fragility of life but not to live life fragilely." Sermon by the Rev. Francisco Garcia, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 22, 2015. Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 and John 12:20-33. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbo3Xw0mlmE&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit...

"I’m giving up salvation for Lent – and taking up healing instead." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 15, 2015. Reading: Ephesians 2:4-10 and John 3:14-17. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC0X_i205so&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow...

"Our enemy is not flesh and blood; it is the rage deep within us that tells us we have something to fear in the other." Sermon by the Rev. Jon Dephouse, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 8, 2015. Reading: I Corinthians 1:18-25 and John 2:13-22. Watch this sermon on TouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMq-vTe2Dxs&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All...

"I want you to look at your life and see what you're willing to take on that's truly sacrificial for you. What more can you do in this world to transform it a little more than it was last week?" Sermon by Bishop Jon Bruno, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 1, 2015. Readings: Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, and Mark 8:31-38. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f16v...

"We are here gathered in this holy, experimental, wild, audacious church to say we know something about putting a new face, a new consciousness of Christ in Christianity, and it has to do with our belovedness." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 22, 2015. Reading: Mark 1:9-15. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJP3x2aXfg0&...

"God loves you beyond your wildest imaginings. Now go put that love into action in the world." Sermon by the Rev. Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 15, 2015. Readings: II Corinthians 4:3-6, and Mark 9:2-9. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7PMWkJoMg&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit...