All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"All faith traditions know this truth. In order to make a difference in our world, we must dwell in compassion and absolutely refuse to reduce our complexity or give up on our goodness. " Sermon by  Sally Howard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18, Psalm 96:1-9 and Matthew 22:34-46. Watch the sermon on YouTube ....

" What is revolutionary about Jesus … and what we as the Church are most afraid to preach because it is what got Jesus on the cross … is the truth that tribal elder imparted to me that evening and of which the indigenous peoples in our midst have been waiting for centuries for us to understand. The Land is the Land. There is no theirs or ours, yours or mine. The Land is always the Land . " Sermon...

" While we celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of this building today and while we will spend this year of commemoration, reflection and celebration telling wonderful and sometimes painful stories … what has made this space sacred and what continues to make this space sacred has nothing to do with the bricks and mortar and glass.  It's us. And a hundred years of peopl...

" We don't possess blessing that we pass on to someone or something else, we pronounce blessing that is already in progress. " Sermon by  Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on St. Francis & Blessing of the Animals Sunday, October 1, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Job 39:1-18, Psalm 121 and Matthew 11:25-30. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read Mark Chase's preaching notes here ....

Sermon by the Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 24, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : II Samuel 1:17-27, Ezekiel 19:1-3, 10-14, Revelation 21:1-7 and Matthew 5:1-9. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out t...

" In one of the most destabilizing times in our history as a church, when that destabilization is driving so many to the poles of fundamentalism … both liberal and conservative … we are here trying to do what to the rest of the world is increasingly bizarre. Lean into nuance and complexity, weakness and vulnerability, grace and humanity.   We are trying to look at those the world would have us oth...

Sermon by the Rev. Jonathan Aitken from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 10, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 72:1-4, 12-14, 18-19, Romans 2:12-16 and Matthew 18:1-7. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out the rest of our YouTube channel at https://www.y...

" Jesus was handing out a blueprint for non-violence, not a hall pass for non-involvement. " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 3, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 25:4-12 and Matthew 5:38-42. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read Mark Chase's preaching notes here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.f...

"There is no question that today we are in a belonging crisis.   When you understand that love, belonging, and worthiness, are something you are born into, not something you have earn, anything is possible. We must equip ourselves to bridge the polarization as we offer a story of common goodness and connection that asserts our capacity, with God's help, to share power, and does not dominate or dis...

" When you are aware that the Holy Spirit lives in you, your heart becomes filled with living water, the living love of God. It begins to flow out from your heart endlessly. " Sermon by  Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 20, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : I Samuel 17:55 – 18:9, Psalm 78:68–72 and John 7:37–44. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the tex...

"Love your enemies. It is one of the most oft-quoted and perhaps least followed phrases in scripture . Love your enemies. We know we are supposed to do it, but nobody ever seems to get around to telling us how. It's beautiful in theory… but what about when that enemy has abused us…? " Sermon by  Mike Kinman from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readi...

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Fadi Diab from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, August 6, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 7:1-8, 17, Romans 2:1-11 and Matthew 5:21-26. Watch the sermon on YouTube .   Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out the rest of our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user...

" We persist because we love the vision of what this church could become so much that we're willing to endure the pain of the birth pangs of bringing that new reality into being — of being co-creators of a world of liberation for absolutely everyone. " Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena, when we commemorate the ordination of t...

" I wonder, do we believe women, as much as the Jesus we believe in did… " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, Sunday, July 23, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Genesis 16:10–13, Psalm 68:4–11 and John 20:1–2, 11–18. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here .   Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us...

" What are the things that blind us to see that another world is possible? " Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 16, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : I Samuel 2: 12–17, 22–25 , Psalm 49:5-15, I Timothy 6:6–16, Matthew 19:16 – 30. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on...

"We all need to be able to tell our whole stories-the good, the bad, and the ugly. We forgive to free ourselves, resisting the spiritual prisons of despair, vengeance, and chaos. We choose to live in the house of love." Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 9, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : I Samuel 2:18 – 21, 26 , Psalm 111, Matthew 18:23 – 35. Watch t...

"It is time for a new Declaration of Independence. It is time to fling open the doors of every cage and let every bird take flight. Abolition is faithful and patriotic and both our founding document and our Gospel call us to overthrow any system or government that does not live up to the high standard of liberty and justice for all. And while that requires individual commitment by each of us it al...

" '...If you've ever been told, or treated, like you have the wrong kind of body – especially if you've heard it so much that you've begun to tell it to yourself, God says to you, "Me, too. I have the wrong kind of body, too. I chose it so I could be like you. So that you would know in your wrong kind of body, that you'll never be alone'. Because when God became human, they made for themselves the...

Sermon by the Rev. Carla Robinson from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Juneteenth Sunday, June 18, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Isaiah 58:6-9, Psalm 118:1-9, Galatians 3:23-29 and Luke 4:16a-22 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at https://www.you...

" Centering those who have been historically excluded is not erasing those who have been historically centered – it is erasing the silos, barriers and boundaries that keep us from being the Beloved Community God created us to be. " Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 11, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 65:5-13, and Matthew 13:31-35 . Watch the s...

" What's Pride Got Do with It? What does Pride got do with anything at all? Pride Month has to do with everything on how we YES! Yes, with our determination, Yes, with our sexuality, Yes, with our standing against Transphobia and Homophobia, Yes, to our faith Journey with God, Yes, to loving our neighbor, Yes to ensuring justice for all, Yes, with our Love. Yes!" Sermon by Thomas Diaz from worship...

"And so, if church is the place we go for healing – as it should be -- the temptation is for us to be hyper aware of our own pain and woundedness and less aware … or even unaware of others'. That doesn't make us unfeeling or bad people. It's literally how we are wired.  …And … that's not Pentecost. Because there is another piece of our relationship between pain and empathy … and that is when we ha...

Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Daniel Lee from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Sunday, May 14, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena, following bomb and shooting threats aimed at All Saints' LGBTQ+ Ministry during the previous week. Readings : Psalm 24, Revelation 3:20-22 and Luke 24:46-53 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.c...

Sermon by Mike Kinman from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Sunday, May 7, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena, following bomb and shooting threats aimed at All Saints' LGBTQ+ Ministry during the previous week. Readings : Wisdom 6:12-19, Psalm 63:1-8 and John 11:17-27 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here .   Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook a...

"When you get to the free Jesus, you can be sure you've gotten to the real Jesus ." Sermon by  Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Sunday, April 30, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 119:97-103, Romans 6:5-11 and Matthew 22:23-33 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https:...