All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

"Jesus didn't ask them, and Jesus doesn't ask us to change the world. Jesus does ask us, just as he did those disciples in acts, to be witnesses.  Not to change the world. Not to change anyone else's mind. But to speak the truth we know and to fashion our lives in accordance with it." Sermon by  Mike Kinman from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Sunday, April 23, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Re...

Sermon by Bishop Gene Robinson from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Sunday, April 16, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena, which included Confirmation, Blessing, Renewal of Baptismal Vows, and Eucharist. Readings : Acts 1:3-5, 12-14, I John 5:1-6 and John 20:19-31 . Watch the sermon on YouTube .     Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaints...

" So this morning, I'm not asking you if you have the answers … I'm asking you "can you hear the music?" I'm not asking you "do you believe in the resurrection?" I'm asking you "Are you ready to join the movement?" This morning, I'm not asking you to subscribe to some false idea of worthiness through purity. That way only leads to judgment and death. And we have had way too much of that. No … what...

" Stay awake and see all the ways God is partnering with us in these nightmares. Don't sleep on God. Don't sleep on those through whom God works. Don't sleep on disability activists. Don't sleep on angry, sick and tired black women. Don't sleep on LGBTQIA folks who are never going back into those closets unless it's to pull out something fabulous for their next drag show. Don't sleep on children a...

"God doesn't require anything of us except to receive God's love that will change everything." Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 26, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Isaiah 40:9-11, Psalm 68:4-11, Romans 16:1-7; 13-16 and Matthew 26:6-13 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here .   Follow All Saints Church on...

Sermon by Conell Powers, Lola Piñón, Eliza LeMoine and Maya Proulx from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Psalm 144:3-4, 12-15, I John 4:13-21 and Matthew 12:46-50 . 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://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/...

" The Teachings and Life of Jesus don't offer us as much wisdom and instruction on how to stay out of hell, as they do on how to Get Hell out of the places we stay! " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Numbers 5:5-10, Psalm 32:1-7, James 5:13-18 and Matthew 5:21-26 . Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the sermon text...

" I say that we're always five to ten decisions away from becoming the people that we judge. I think many of us who internally boo at this young man are probably closer to him than we think. " Sermon by  Brandi Miller from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : I Kings 17:8-16, II Corinthians 9:6-13 and Matthew 14:13-21 . Watch the sermon on YouTu...

Sermon by Mary Tororeiy from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Genesis 2:7-9, 15-17, Psalm 51, Revelation 22:1-5, 16-17 and Matthew 3:1-6 . 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.youtube.c...

" God is doing new things. Amazing things. Healing things.  Challenging things. Transformational things right here, right now, through us and through you. We walk with a revolutionary Jesus … and he ain't lounging around in his PJs. He is headed down that mountain and we get to follow him, heal and be healed, change and be changed, love and be loved. These are strange days, All Saints Church … but...

" The call to speak out – to speak up – to never be silent -- is part of our ancient spiritual heritage as old as the prophet Isaiah and Chloe's people from Corinth … because so are the powers that sought to silence the sentinels then and seek to silence them still. " Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 12, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : Isaiah 6...

" Jesus is not the one who has healed the sick person. Jesus never said: 'I healed you.' Jesus is not even saying, at least not explicitly, that the person was healed by God. 'Your faith has healed you,' he says. " Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, February 5, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings : II Kings 5:1–4, 9–14, Psalm 30 and Matthew 9:18–26 . Watch...

"But the greatest injustice is about who disproportionately goes to the grave, and when, and why, and how, and who gets to live while others are left to die? So yes! Jesus gets extreme and says "If I have to stop a funeral, then we'll just stop the funeral, because there's a future that needs creating, and it's not subject to negotiation. Beloved, there is a future that needs creating..." Sermon b...

" On this celebration of the Lunar New Year, let us recall our own identity as fishers for people, especially those among us who are Asian or Asian-American. We here are all immigrants or descendants in some way. We here, and our ancestors, came from nations very far away. We come here, to this table, in our rich diversity, to celebrate Jesus, who called each one of us by name, to follow him and t...

" It is our time to be in the center of both the pain and the problem." Sermon by Najuma Smith-Pollard from worship at 10:00 a.m. on MLK Sunday, January 15, 2023 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 98:1-4, MLK's I've Been to the Mountaintop , and Luke 4:14-22. Watch the sermon on YouTube .     Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/...

" When we are secure in our belovedness, we don't need to hide our wounds because we know that there is no wound that love cannot eventually heal. When we are secure in our belovedness, we don't need to broadcast our wounds so people will see us because we already know that we are seen and that we are loved. When we are secure in our belovedness, we can share our wounds without needing to center o...

" God is for us and was made present among us in the Word made flesh in order to convince us that we are safe because we are loved by God. And it is out of that safety – out of the sure and certain knowledge that absolutely nothing can separate us from that love – that we can risk – we can dare -- we can be the change we want to see in the world." Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 10:00 a.m....

" The Christ looks at a travel warning and says "Hell, no!" These are my people. And nobody is going to tell me that I can't go be with my people, where they are, as they are.  That's what tonight is about. And that's why when that baby Jesus (smack hands) hit the atmosphere, you can bet he cried, because… Damn. Human life is hard.  Human life is messy.  And Jesus was not and is not immune to the...

" Nothing in our lives is more consequential than the notion of God we hold. To me, this is where the story of Jesus' birth just blows my mind. The good news of this night—and my friends it is great news—is that God loves things by being in all things. God loved us by becoming one of us. God's answer to violence and domination was to become a tiny baby—born of a woman. Baby at the breast, totally...

" Well, sure. Now that we know what a big deal Jesus is, we're like, 'Come to my house Mary and Joseph! We have an empty bedroom with good Wi-Fi – you can have your baby at my house!' But that night? Nobody wanted them." Play performed by Mike Kinman, Amy Brenneman and friends during worship at 3:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. The play was written by Am...

" To grow benevolence -- to live our lives in alignment with God's values of love, justice and compassion -- is to stand in opposition to the rulers of the world of gloom -- to be a light to the nations -- to strive to make peace on earth, goodwill to all not just a hymn we sing once a year but a reality we live all year long." Meditation by Susan Russell from Advent Evensong at 5:00 p.m. on the F...

" You don't have to be with child, in order to be expecting . " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 10:00 a.m. on The Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 18, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 34:1-9, Titus 3:4-7 and Matthew 1:18-25. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon .    Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebo...

Meditation by Eliza LeMoine, Asher Glawe, Josie Hooten, Anaya Olivas and Inesa Wenn from Advent III Evening Eucharist at 5:00 p.m. on The Third Sunday of Advent, December 11, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Matthew 1:1-16, Isaiah 11:1-6 and Philippians 4:4-7. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Al...

" The scriptures are full of events in which visions, dreams, apparitions and divine messengers reveal a God that communicates in many ways, telling us that God continues speaking and manifesting in specific events in our history. God continues speaking in the present. God continues speaking right here and right now. The sacred scriptures continue to be written in the here and now ." Sermon by Alf...

Sermon by Luca DiMassa from worship at 10:00 a.m. on The Second Sunday of Advent, December 4, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 54:1-8, Psalm 113 and Luke 1:5-17, 24-25. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at htt...