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Say Her Name. Say His Name. Say Their Name. Nov 03, 2019

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"For a moment, we forget. In a moment, we remember.

For a moment we remember. And then in a moment, we forget.

Today we come together to honor both those whom we love but see no longer and also the struggle and dance of we whose journey on earth is not yet done.

Today we come together to proclaim that though death seems final, though we long so deeply for the things that still seem so close and yet we increasingly too easily forget – the warmth of her touch, the smell of his hair, the sound of their laugh … we come together to proclaim that the parting of death is but painful and powerful illusion.

That what God has joined together not even death can tear asunder.

That when we Say Her Name Say His Name Say Their Name

We are proclaiming that we have been … and always will be … One."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on All Saints Sunday, November 3, 2019. Readings: Luke 6:20-31.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/say-her-name-say-his-name-say-their-name/.

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It's Time to Trust the Revolutionary Jesus Oct 27, 2019

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"...The key to right relationship … with God, with each other, with ourselves … is humility. So, what is humility? Well I'll tell you what it isn't. Humility is not God saying "You suck … just admit it" and us believing it. Humility is not making yourself small to suit the comfort of others. Humility is not a false modesty of failing to acknowledge the power and beauty each and all of us have as images of the divine.

"The Greek word Luke uses here is "tapeinós," which means "God reliant." The key to right relationship … with God, with each other, with ourselves … is being reliant on how God sees us for how we see ourselves. And God's love … the love of the revolutionary Jesus … is a love without judgment or condition."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 27, 2019. Readings: Joel 2:23-32 and Luke 18:9-14.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/its-time-to-trust-the-revolutionary-jesus/.

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The Reckoning, the Rumble, and the Revolution Oct 20, 2019

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"...The rumble is gonna happen even if we flee from it … only it will not be the rumble we want. The language of the unheard becomes the riot. And what are we still failing to hear? What are we still failing to wrestle with? That the promises of freedom, of justice have not been met…. that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 20, 2019. Readings: Genesis 32:22-31 and Luke 18:1-8.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/the-reckoning-the-rumble-and-the-revolution/.

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Borderlands Oct 17, 2019

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"Many of us came here because All Saints is a community of radical love and inclusion, that speaks truth to power and advocates for peace and justice. I know this why I came. I could no longer tolerate the hideous exclusion and emotional harm done to LBGTQ siblings. I couldn't identify with Christianity that aligned itself with a view of God as white and male. I couldn't connect to a religion that was competitive with other religious paths. I had been traumatized by the concept of a God who required torture and death to appease his anger yet, required I love him. Here, I felt comfortable at last, free of unfair, bigoted concepts that seemed interwoven into the faith I accepted wholeheartedly."

Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 13, 2019. Readings: II Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Luke 17:11-19.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/borderlands/.

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Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed Oct 06, 2019

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"I don't have a problem talking with you about giving money at All Saints Church. Because while money is really important, it is also sign and symbol of what I really want to ask you to give and that is your lives. Give your lives, give your whole selves for love. That's where the joy is! Don't hold back in fear. Together, we can do it. God has us and we've got each other.

"I want us to move our money from fear to love because I want us to move our lives from fear to love. Life is too short and too beautiful for us to be prisoners of fear. Love calls us through joy and sorrow – and yet even the sorrow can be a window to joy when we walk through life together."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, October 6, 2019. Readings: Psalm 137:1-6 and Luke 17:5-10.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/faith-the-size-of-a-mustard-seed/.

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God's Scoutlike, Frinklish Love Sep 30, 2019

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"My wife, Robin, has been reading a book called Becoming Human by Jean Vanier. Vanier founded L'Arche, which describes itself as 'an organization .. of homes, programs and support networks with people with intellectual disabilities.' That language of disability that they have chosen is unfortunate, because they themselves define their communities not as disabled but rather as saying 'I think like you, but differently.'

As a lifelong educator, Robin continually challenges and teaches me about the language we use. I was sharing with her this week about a conversation I had with someone who self-identified as having ADD, and she pushed back strongly against that term – Attention Deficit Disorder -- and as I have heard her say many times before, she said: 'ADD is neither a deficit nor a disorder … we each think differently.'

Later, she showed me a passage from Vanier's book, where he writes these words that have deep significance for an All Saints community that holds radical inclusion as a core value.

Vanier writes: 'When I talk about "inclusion" of people with (and here I add "so-called") disabilities … I am not just saying we should be kind to such people …. Nor "normalize" them to be "like us.' …They have a gift to give to all, to each of us as individuals… and to society, in general. 'The excluded … live certain values we all need to discover and to live ourselves before we can become truly human. It is not a just a question of performing good deeds for those who are excluded but of being open and vulnerable to them in order to receive the life that they can offer.'"

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on St. Francis Sunday, September 29, 2019. Readings: Psalm 148:7-14 and Matthew 11:25-30.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/gods-scoutlike-frinklish-love/.

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Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

Is There No Balm in Gilead? Sep 23, 2019

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"So let us not fear our anger... or our tears... or our secrets. Let us wear them all as badges of honor. Because only then... Only when we are able to look at the world through tears and wail the lament that any decent feeling person would cry looking at how things are today 'Is there no balm in Gilead?' Only when we are able to share our secrets and cry our laments will we be able to hear and sing that song of healing, that song of power, that song of love, that song of hope that love will always, always, always be greater than fear."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Celebration of Ministries Sunday, September 22, 2019. Readings: Jeremiah 8:18-9:11 and Luke 16:1-13.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/is-there-no-balm-in-gilead/.

Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/.

Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

Secrets and Songs Sep 16, 2019

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"A revolutionary Jesus looks at each of us and is not satisfied with the 99% of ourselves that we think might be lovable, but wants desperately to touch that one percent, that secret we hide so deeply in fear … to caress that broken childhood dream … to reach that painful secret that is feeding on our heart like a cancer … to look deeply into our eyes and tell us that even that part of us … and maybe even especially that part of us … is infinitely loved as well."

Sermon by Mike Kinman at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Homecoming Sunday, September 15, 2019. Reading: Luke 15:1-10.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/secrets-and-songs/.

Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/.

Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

Radical Trust in God's Love Sep 08, 2019

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"To follow me, Jesus says, you will be called to leave your comfort zone guaranteed, and although God will sustain you and carry you in love, you heart will sometimes break. It will break at the news of our border, and the immigrant children and parents torn from each other. It may break learning this week of the 51st homeless person to die on the sidewalks of Los Angeles this year. You may suffer sometimes for what you do to make it different, and you will suffer for what you cannot change. That's the cost of having a heart aligned with God's heart."

Sermon by Sally Howard at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 8, 2019. Readings: Psalm 139:1-17 and Luke 14:25-33.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/radical-trust-in-gods-love/.

You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas.

Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

Increase In Us True Religion Sep 01, 2019

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"If we are indeed to be that Body of Christ in the World we need ligaments of love which will be limber enough to stretch not only to include all who wish to be bound together in this community of faith but to speak out whenever any member of the human family is oppressed or marginalized, wounded or afraid, silenced or in danger."

Sermon by Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, September 1, 2019. Readings: Sirach 10:12-18 and Luke 14:1, 7-14.

For video and a text of the sermon, visit our website: https://allsaints-pas.org/increase-in-us-true-religion/.

You can also follow us on Twitter @ASCpas.

Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

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