All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"We speak out because our true religion is the truth that nothing but love will find us home." Sermon by the Rev. Susan Russell  at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 31, 2014. Readings:  Romans 12:9-18 and Matthew 16:21-25. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZomQ9YdTk&feature=youtu.be . For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit h...

"Jesus is saying we can build a heaven and we can build a hell. We can unloose, unbind ourselves from those things that are causing us trouble in this world. We can loosen other things inside us that are restricting us, that are keeping us from meditating and opening those doors inside us. We can build heaven or hell. Let's open the doors to heaven." Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone at All Saint...

"So let us leave today with a new resolve, with a realistic understanding of the work ahead, and with a tenacious, relentless, loving faith, so that all lives can be truly held as equally sacred." Sermon by the Rev. Francisco Garcia at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 17, 2014. Readings: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 and Matthew 15:21-28. Watch this video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/wat...

"Most of us won't step out [into the water] of our own choosing, but are most often knocked into the water by some failure, loss or tragedy; where grief is the only passageway. After the initial thrashing and panicking we may be surprised by the experience of letting go, of releasing our contraction of fear and discovering to our delight that we can be OK in the water." Sermon by the Rev. Jon Deph...

Sermon by the Rev. Zelda Kennedy at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 3, 2014. Readings:  Isaiah 55:1-5 and Matthew 14:13-21. Watch this video on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jbNLgnx_V8&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 min...

Sermon by the Rev. Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 27, 2014. Readings: John 20:11-18 and II Corinthians 5:14-18.

Sermon by the Rev. Janine Schenone at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Readings: Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, Romans 8:12-25 and Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43. 

A sermon given by the Very Rev. Gary Hall at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Readings: Isaiah 55:10-13 and Matthew 13:1-9; 18-23.

"You and I can have a problem-based orientation to life or a solution-based orientation to life. We can have a problem-based religion or an answer-based religion. St. Paul in this morning's letter to the Romans calls it a sin-based religion versus a grace-based religion..." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 29, 2014. Readings: Romans 6:12-23 and Matthew 10...

"To follow the way of Jesus, to build that beloved community that engages in transformative peacemaking, we need to begin with ourselves and make that transition internally. It can be taxing and overwhelming work if we do not have a way to sustain ourselves, and if we are not centered in our own sense of belovedness before God." Sermon by the Rev. Francisco Garcia at All Saints Church, Pasadena, o...

Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, June 15, 2014. Readings: 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 and Matthew 28:16-20. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQHSH2YEDv0 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 S...

"Pentecost, with its brilliant proclamation of our common humanity, can still illuminate our path to peace. It would be a betrayal of everything our faith has taught us to believe about God, to believe about our common humanity, if we were to lose hope in the possibility of peace among all people throughout the world." Sermon by the Rector Emeritus George F. Regas at All Saints Church, Pasadena, o...

"To the degree that you and I can do our internal work to lay aside the individualistic salvation projects we have for ourselves and for others and live into the win-win world of grace, then Jesus says, "You will do greater works than these that I have done. Simply get yourself aligned with the character of grace that lives between God and me and ask whatever you want in line with our character of...

"The short answer is that God so loved the world that God became one of us in order to show us how to love one another. The slightly longer answer is that Jesus came to show us the way--spent his earthly live modeling the way--and that way is to be so aligned with God's love, so connected to God's love, so empowered by God's love that nothing--not even death--can get in the way." Sermon by the Rev...

"The call of life and the key to abundant life is to let this Love, this Belovedness, this grace-filled resonance be our home base, our emotional and spiritual headquarters as a way of keeping us receptive not reactive. This resonance with God, with our self, and with others is out center. This is what is meant for us..." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 1...

"The God that fails is the God who hates, who punishes, who creates more violence. The God who prevails, the Easter God is the God who transforms. Damaged people damage people. Transformed people transform people. All pain that is not transformed is transmitted. That is what God knows to be true." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, May 4, 2014. Readings: I Peter...

"Within Love's Imaginarium, the indominatable Spirit of life that connects all things is set free for goodness in the world by transcending wounds through including them. In this complex world that we live in, may this Easter reality give us hope to live anew, no matter the challenges and darkness we may face." Sermon by the Rev. Jon Dephouse at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, April 27, 20...

"Grace is going on in everyone, everyone no matter how much you disagree with them or how unattractive to you they are. And God this Easter is asking you to be a minister of the Resurrection, a preacher of the Resurrection in their life." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014. Readings: Acts 10:34-43 and John 20:1-18. Watch this sermon on YouT...

"The issue is whether we will be priests of violence and injustice, or whether we will be those who love the greater love and thus lay down our lives--detach from our salvation projects and refuse to hate." Sermon by the Rev. Ed Bacon at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014. Reading: Matthew 21:1-11. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2CSVdohALo...

"You really do have a choice. You can continue to live in the valley of the dry bones, or stay in the tomb, or you can see the hip bone connected with the thigh bone, and the thigh bone connected to the knee bone, as you listen to and hear the word of the Lord. And you can slowly unwrap from that which binds you, and live. It is our choice. Which will you choose?" Sermon by the Rev. Zelda Kennedy...

"God is blessing you every second of every day so you will have the bravery and the courage and the hope to live the unpredictable life - and so that you can bless everyone that you meet. Listen, look - at everything in creation and let it say to you that God so loved the world - everything in the world - so that nothing, nothing would be condemned, and that everyone and every thing will be saved....

Sermon by the Rev. Jon Dephouse at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, March 2, 2014. Readings: Exodus 24:12-18 and Matthew 17:1-9. For more about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church visit http://www.allsaints-pas.org and follow us on Twitter @ASCpas. Watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-KzeYSBmi4&feature=youtu.be . To donate to the mission and ministry o...