All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

" Any act of kindness, any act of hospitality always carries the element of surprise. Surprise to the unknown, surprise to discover God among us. Surprise to discover God in our midst. " Sermon by  Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 and Luke 24:13-35. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the...

" Magdalene thought Jesus was the gardener … because Jesus was the gardener.  Think about it. Why wouldn't Jesus be the gardener? Isn't it natural that the Jesus who was born as an Illegal migrant and quickly became a refugee should first appear as a day laborer? But even Magdalene, who had been erased and dismissed and treated as a "just another woman" even just minutes before by the male discipl...

" It's OK to break free … as long as you don't break too free. It's OK to break free … as long as you don't make people with power and money too uncomfortable. It's OK to break free … as long as you stay respectable, don't rock that boat too much, don't challenge the purity cultures that divide and the etiquettes that bind.    It's OK to break free … but keep it down, would you? That's the challen...

Sermon by The Rev. Nan Peete from worship for Women's History Sunday at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Exodus 1:15-21, Sirach 1:4-15, Galatians 3:23-29 and Luke 24:1-11. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at ht...

" As a hospital chaplain, I have been asked to pray for the sick and those on the verge of death, but I have never witnessed a miracle like the ones recounted in the Gospel of Mark. But I have seen how the ripples of the small acts that we do with great love are miraculously multiplied by God's Spirit and ripple outward from us in ever-expanding circles, spreading the inexhaustible light of God's...

" Our youth are frightened.   They understand that if Nex is not safe, or the bodies of black, indigenous, and youth of color, or the bodies of trans or female youth, then no child's body is safe.   They have clarity: by our actions, we need to give them hope . " Sermon by  Sally Howard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Joshua 6:15-17, 23...

" You do not need to be afraid of yourself. You are free to question and explore. You deserve a healthy relationship with your body and you are worthy of the time, space and resources it takes to create that relationship. Pleasure is not a sin. Delight and pleasure are a beautiful part of being alive…. Our bodies are for honoring, not policing. We are queer followers of a queer Christ. And thank G...

Sermon by the Very Rev. Gary Hall from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 25:1-7, Romans 12:14-21 and Mark 1:9-15. Watch the sermon on YouTube .    Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donat...

" I'll just remind you that the only way that we will see light in this world is if you bring it. The only way that we will see change in this world is if you speak it. And the only way that people will know that God is still alive and moving in these streets is if you walk in these streets… " Sermon by the Rev. Eddie Anderson from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at All Saints C...

" Jesus doesn't ask us to check a box, Jesus invites us to check ourselves. " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 4, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 119:33-40, I John 5:18-20 and Mark 4:1-20. Watch the sermon on YouTube .    Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate to support the mission and...

" I truly believe … God dreams for us to be a community that is unflinching in our quest for justice. A community that refuses to remain silent in the midst of horrendous evil, knowing that " Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." A community that is as determined as ever not "to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injust...

" We are in an extended period of difficult change and deep loss. And it impacts all of us. So let me be the first to say it this morning. I am hurting. It has been a hard seven and a half years here and the past four especially so. I am hurting and I know you are too, I just know it. So instead of trying to pretend we aren't in pain, can we meet in that place of pain? " Sermon by Mike Kinman from...

" Don't allow your enemy, to become your 'inner me' . " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 14, 2024 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Exodus 3:7-12, Psalm 77:11-15, 20, MLK's Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence and Luke 6:27-36. Watch the sermon on YouTube .           Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsai...

" Epiphany is a revelation of wisdom. Of what to hold onto … and what to release. Of how to travel light, carrying only what we need to be free and releasing now what we now can let go. Breathing in and out. Now, Gospel tells us they brought three gifts … gold, frankincense and myrrh.  Love is not the easy thing. The only baggage you can bring is all that you can't leave behind. Gold, frankincense...

" The love that binds us all together with one another and with God is the child in the manger, is the word of the Prophet Mohammed, praise be unto him, is the great light that still shines on those to whom Isaiah speaks who still live in exile and fear. The hope of the world is in this room this night … right here, right now. Because tonight we gather at the manger – Jew, Muslim and Christian – b...

Sermon by Mark Chase from the Festive Eucharist at 5:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 26:16–19, Psalm 68:4–11 and Luke 2:1–20. Watch the sermon on YouTube .         Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org...

" Let us be bold in our witness, for the time of change is upon us, and the dreams of many hang in the balance . " Sermon by  Susan Russell from worship at 10:00 a.m. on The Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 24, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 118:14–26, First Coming by Madeleine L'Engle and Luke 1:26–38. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here .       ...

"Jesus was willing to do the unconventional so that he could accomplish the unlikely. " Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on The Third Sunday of Advent, December 17, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 147:1-7, Acts 16:16-24 and Mark 1:29-45. Watch the sermon on YouTube .        Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or...

Sermon by the Rt. Rev. Nedi Rivera from worship at 10:00 a.m. --- Our Lady of Guadalupe service -- on The Second Sunday of Advent, December 10, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Oldest narrative of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Luke 1:46-55. Watch the sermon on YouTube .       Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate...

Sermon by Becca Stevens from worship at 10:00 a.m. on The First Sunday of Advent, December 3, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 65:1–5, 8, 12–13, Romans 1:7–8 and   Mark 1:1–13. Watch the sermon on YouTube .      Please consider pledging to All Saints Church at https://allsaints-pas.org/pledge/ , or donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-...

" God is beyond all humanity, and can never be fully described in our human language. All human language about God is metaphorical and everything we say about God is a metaphor . " Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 26, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : II Kings 24:8, 11-17, Psalm 47 and Matthew 27:11-14, 27-37. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Re...

" Be still and know that I am God. Every little thing is going to be all right Let it be. These are calls for us to show up. To be people of hope in the midst of despair. To be people of love and reconciliation in the midst of hate and polarization.   To hold onto each other. To hold onto each other tightly, fiercely and lovingly. To hold onto each other in trust that the love that binds us togeth...

Sermon by  Jamie Barnett from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 148, Revelation 21:10, 22-27 and Matthew 6:28-34. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Please consider donating to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at  https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/ . Any donation, big or small, is appreciated! Follow All Saints...

" On this day and the days that follow, may we more fully become a community that does not join the world in fearing death and silencing grief … but embracing both death and grief as the gateway to healing and wholeness. On this day and the days that follow may we hold each other in trusting or even trying to trust that far from hiding our tears, we can shout them and scream them because though ou...

" Is our relationship with the wealth you have more about fear or more about joy? If you are experiencing any sort of poverty, what a difference would it make to be freed from that burden? Actually to "not be anxious about your life, what you all will eat or what you all will drink, or about your body, what you all will wear." And if you are among those of us who are not, what a joy would it be to...