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Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 31, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 and Luke 12:13–21. 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.com/user/allsaintspasadena1/videos. Subscribe, like, get notifications every time we post! Enjoy our extensive archive of stimulating and inspiring content! Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints at https://allsaints-pas.org/donate/donate-now/.

Msgr. Michael McCarron's homily for the 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time 2022, Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, Psalm 90, 2:21-23, Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11, Luke 12:13-21 Intro/Outro music from "Together We Can" from www.epidemicsound.com

Preached for the 8th Sunday after Pentecost (2022-07-31). Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 | Psalm 49:1-11 | Colossians 3:1-11 | Luke 12:13-21

Each week, we provide questions based on the sermon. These questions are to encourage you to connect the scriptures to your own life and to invite you to grow deeper in your relationships with others at Faith by discussing the questions together. Readings: ECCLESIASTES 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23, LUKE 12:13-21 Sermon: Through our actions we achieve nothing, but through our actions Christ achieves everything. Questions: 1) When have you despaired that your daily activity has any meaning? 2) When has someone in customerservice transformedyour day through an act of grace? 3) What is an object you use everyday that improves your life? Say a prayer of thanks that God works through the person who made it. 4) In your activities today, what is one way that you can be the mask through which God cares for others?

Preacher: Rabbi Aaron Bisno. Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23, Psalm 44:1-11, Colossians 3:1-11, Luke 12:13-21

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21–23 Psalm 90:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 14, 17 Colossians 3:1–5, 9–11 Luke 12:13–21 Trust in God—as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This should be the mark of our following of Jesus. Like the Israelites we recall in this week's Psalm Response, we have made an exodus, passing through the waters of Baptism, freeing us from our bondage to sin. We too are on a pilgrimage to a promised homeland, the Lord in our midst, feeding us heavenly bread, giving us living waters to drink (see 1 Corinthians 10:1-4). We must take care to guard against the folly that befell the Israelites, that led them to quarrel and test God's goodness at Meribah and Massah. We can harden our hearts in ways more subtle but no less ruinous. We can put our trust in possessions, squabble over earthly inheritances, kid ourselves that what we have we deserve, store up treasures and think they'll afford us security and rest. All this is “vanity of vanities,” a false and deadly way of living, as this week's First Reading tells us. This is the greed that Jesus warns against in this week's Gospel. The rich man's anxiety and toil expose his lack of faith in God's care and provision. That's why Paul calls greed “idolatry” in the Epistle this week. Mistaking having for being, possession for existence, we forget that God is the giver of all that we have, we exalt the things we can make or buy over our Maker (see Romans 1:25). Jesus calls the rich man a “fool”—a word used in the Old Testament for someone who rebels against God or has forgotten Him (see Psalm 14:1). We should treasure most the new life we have been given in Christ and seek what is above, the promised inheritance of heaven. We have to see all things in the light of eternity, mindful that He who gives us the breath of life could at any moment—this night even—demand it back from us.

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21–23 Psalm 90:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 14, 17 Colossians 3:1–5, 9–11 Luke 12:13–21 Trust in God—as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This should be the mark of our following of Jesus. Like the Israelites we recall in this week's Psalm Response, we have made an exodus, passing through the waters of Baptism, freeing us from our bondage to sin. We too are on a pilgrimage to a promised homeland, the Lord in our midst, feeding us heavenly bread, giving us living waters to drink (see 1 Corinthians 10:1-4). We must take care to guard against the folly that befell the Israelites, that led them to quarrel and test God's goodness at Meribah and Massah. We can harden our hearts in ways more subtle but no less ruinous. We can put our trust in possessions, squabble over earthly inheritances, kid ourselves that what we have we deserve, store up treasures and think they'll afford us security and rest. All this is “vanity of vanities,” a false and deadly way of living, as this week's First Reading tells us. This is the greed that Jesus warns against in this week's Gospel. The rich man's anxiety and toil expose his lack of faith in God's care and provision. That's why Paul calls greed “idolatry” in the Epistle this week. Mistaking having for being, possession for existence, we forget that God is the giver of all that we have, we exalt the things we can make or buy over our Maker (see Romans 1:25). Jesus calls the rich man a “fool”—a word used in the Old Testament for someone who rebels against God or has forgotten Him (see Psalm 14:1). We should treasure most the new life we have been given in Christ and seek what is above, the promised inheritance of heaven. We have to see all things in the light of eternity, mindful that He who gives us the breath of life could at any moment—this night even—demand it back from us.

Readings* Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12–14; 2:18–26* Psalm 100* Colossians 3:1–11* Luke 12:13–21ReaderCorey J. MahlerCopyright NoticesUnless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from the Lutheran Confessions are from Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions, copyright © 2005, 2006 by Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. All rights reserved. To purchase a copy of Concordia, call 800-325-3040.Support the show

This week, we have five contributors to our daily readings and reflections. We have asked them to choose scriptures that have particular meaning to them, perhaps have been helpful or influential.  Of course, all of us have passages that have spoken to us, inspired us, challenged us.  Passages that have stayed with us through the years and passages that have helped us through a season, a scripture that takes us back to a moment of decision.   I wonder what passage you would have chosen?   Our contributors this week will look at a wide number of scripture; including  Psalms, Matthew, Numbers, Romans and Ecclesiastes.

Readings* Ecclesiastes 5:10–20* Psalm 119:9–16* Hebrews 4:1–16* Mark 10:23–31ReaderCorey J. MahlerCopyright NoticesUnless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from the Lutheran Confessions are from Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions, copyright © 2005, 2006 by Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. All rights reserved. To purchase a copy of Concordia, call 800-325-3040.Support the show (https://confident.faith/)

Preached at 10:00 for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost. Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23 | Psalm 49:1-11 | Colossians 3:1-11 | Luke 12:13-21

4 Aug 2019 - Rev. Aaron Eime reminds us to seek first the Kingdom instead of greedily seeking worldly possessions. We serve a generous God. Let us be like him in generosity. If our hearts are directed to anything but God, all is vain, all is meaningless. Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23; Psalm 49:1-12; Luke 12:13-21 Blessed by our teachings? Consider saying thank you with a small (or large) donation. www.christchurchjerusalem.org/donate/

Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23, Psalm 49:1-11, Colossians 3:1-11, Luke 12:13-21

Readings* Ecclesiastes 1:1, 12–14; 2:18–26* Psalm 100* Colossians 3:1–11* Luke 12:13–21Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Support the show (https://confident.faith/)

“Tonight is time to bring all of who we are – our fears and our hopes, our grief and our gratitude, our dreams and our disappointments – to this altar. Tonight is a time to choose love.” Homily by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. Readings: Ecclesiastes 3:1-14 and Luke 21:5-19. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nz4aEyqSA. 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 Saints at http://www.allsaints-pas.org/support/donate/.

"Not many find a way to be both rich and faithful." The Rev. E. Suzanne Wille preaches on the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost (July 31, 2016). Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23; Psalm 49:1-11; Colossians 3:1-11; Luke 12:13-21. Image: mickeyvdo (flickr.com/mc-pictures), distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license.

A sermon given by the Rev. Susan Russell at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, August 1, 2010. "Claiming the Blessing 2.0."  Readings: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23, and Luke 12:13-21.