All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"The self is not defined by the boundaries of our skin..." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 8, 2015. Readings: Isaiah 40:21-31, I Corinthians 9:16-23, and Mark 1:29-39. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUy-dQSqh98&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.all...

"[Thomas Merton gave a speech to a gathering of nuns and monks from Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, and he closed with these words,] My dear brothers and sisters, We are already one. O-N-E. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, February 1, 20...

"Let me rush to say as a person who went through all sorts of morphing in discovering and living out my vocation...I am understanding in deeper emotional and spiritual ways that vocation is a river and not a pond." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 25, 2015. Readings: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 and Mark 1:14-20. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube...

"If you want to honor Dr. King, then love someone you find difficult to love." Sermon by the Rt. Rev. Rob Wright, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 18, 2015. Readings: John 1:43-51. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3vzuhYHSw&feature=youtu.be For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow u...

  "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 11, 2015. Reading: Mark 1:4-11. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyLtWOr5-8g&feature=youtu.be. F...

"The energy which God used to create us was the energy of Love. Nothing that was created was created apart from Love. Consequently the true self of every creature is Love. Your True Self is the tenderness of Love. That is my True Self." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, January 4, 2015. Readings: Jeremiah 31:10-14, Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a, and Luke 2:41-52. Wa...

"As God binds our wounds with tender mercy and compassionate care, we are empowered to become wholemakers in the world, like Jesus." Sermon by the Rev. Sally Howard, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Healing Sunday, December 28, 2014. Readings: Isaiah 61:10-62:3, and John 1:1-5, 9, 14. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7_OWz8xNM&feature=youtu.be. For more about the...

Ed Bacon preaches a powerful interfaith tribute to tenderness in his Christmas Eve sermon. Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, 2014. 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=8A7_OWz8xNM&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and minist...

“This is Malala’s Magnificat: a light shining in the darkness in a life lived in alignment with God’s love, justice and compassion.” Sermon by the Rev. Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, 2014. Readings: Isaiah 9:2-4, 6-7, and Luke 2:1-14. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A7_OWz8xNM&feature=youtu.be. For more abou...

"The idea is not for us to become great, but for us to become like Mary: To sing the song 'My soul magnifies the greatness of God." Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 21, 2014. Readings: Canticle 15 and Luke 1:26-38. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnZb-3zF5-Y&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and minis...

"Joy, properly understood is a choice. We choose joy in order to be transformed – in order to transform the world." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 14, 2014. Readings: Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, I Thessalonians 5:16-24 and John 1:6-8, 19-28. Watch the sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ggnP8CYjs&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mis...

"Do we continue to warn our children of color to stay off the streets because they're not safe or do we join them in the streets to MAKE them safe?" Sermon by the Rev. Zelda Kennedy, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 7, 2014. Readings: II Peter 3:8-15a and Mark 1:1-8. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm3nPdEXavE&feature=youtu.be. For more about the...

"Dr. King was correct that "a riot is the language of the unheard." Right now the people of Ferguson are speaking. Will America listen?" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 30, 2014. Readings: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 and Mark 13:24-37. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWMXVj_oRCo&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission an...

"If I ever got a tattoo it would read, 'In every moment something sacred is at stake.'" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 23, 2014. Reading: Matthew 25:31-40. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQky2e0nCc&feature=youtu.be For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and f...

"Waste your heart on fear no more." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon, inspired by the poetry of John O'Donohue, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 16, 2014. Reading: Matthew 25:14-28. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9P1J91-PE&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow us...

"There is faith that an indomitable light resides at the base of things, and will ultimately find its way through the darkness." Sermon by the Rev. Jon Dephouse at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 9, 2014. Readings: Amos 5:18-24 and Matthew 25:1-13. See this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CScZwshYB5U&feature=youtu.be. For more about the mission and ministry of...

"The deepest question of life, of love, and from God, which the sacrament of mourning is called to take us toward, is this question: What is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? " Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2014. Reading: Matthew 5:1-12. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzW2Brz...

"If you start loving other people more, then your love for God is going to expand and your love for yourself is going to expand. Or if you start loving yourself more, you're going to start loving God more and other people more. If you start loving God more, you're going to start loving other people more and start loving yourself more. You're going to expand to the big mind..." Sermon by the Rev. E...

"Richard Rohr writes that Jesus the Christ revealed the unitive mystery of Divine Love. That is that God's Love is not about just saving a few and dealing primarily with sin, but making the whole earth new, redeeming the entire cosmos. And in order for God to make the whole creation new, each of us needs to do our part remembering who we are...God has an easier time convincing bread and wine of wh...

"...We need to contend seriously with the great trauma and harm we cause in our culture when folks are not invited to the table. The God-Party seeks to invite precisely those who have been left out." Sermon by the Rev. Francisco Garcia at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 12, 2014. Readings: Matthew 22:1-10. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20KqSXd1vXQ&...

"Gratitude is how we access God's Generosity and how we become generous to others, with ourselves, and how we develop God-consciousness, the Big Picture, the Kingdom of God, what the rabbis call the Big Mind."    Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 5, 2014. Readings: Matthew 21:33-40. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxB21X...

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu last week, in preparation for the 400,000 member in-the-street New York protest last Sunday, and the gathering at the U.N. last week, said the climate crisis has become the global human rights challenge of our time...He concluded, we can no longer tinker about the edges. We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuel as if there is no tomorrow, for if that...

"Are you ready for a new and bigger song that is about how cosmically huge God's generosity and grace and unmerited and unconditional love are? Are you ready for a new story and a new narrative that really SEES how radically egalitarian God's generosity and grace are?" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 21, 2014. Readings: Jon...

"To a person they're all about finding a new song that's worthy of our grandeur, our nobility, our beauty. And to the degree we all work together on this new song, we'll be used by God to turn the Human Race into the Human Family, to make the planet a paradise, and to celebrate the diversity and unity of the entire universe!" Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Homecomin...

"Jesus describes a process for handling conflict. Talk, be honest about your experience and perspective; be vulnerable and work toward reconciliation. Get others to help you dialogue, if you can't do it alone." Sermon by the Rev. Sally Howard  at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 7, 2014. Readings:  Romans 13:8-14 and Matthew 18:15-20. Watch this sermon onYouTube at https://www.you...