ALL SAINTS :: Podcast

My Money

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:00:00 GMT

We've talked about how important it is to have margin in our life. Generosity happens in the margins. We all have limits. We have time, financial, moral and relational limits. Our tendency is to take life to the limit, live on the edge and leave no room for margin. We live within a culture that pushes us to our limits and at the limits there is no margin. We talked about giving our time to God, since he is the one who gave us time and only He knows how much time we have left. To accomplish more, we don't do more. Capacity isn't based on activity. Capacity is based on priority.

Matthew 6:19-21 & Malachi 3:7-12

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My Stuff

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:00:00 GMT

Have you ever seen the bumper sticker, “He who dies with the most toys wins? Today we're talking about My Stuff. Last week was about time, and how to be generous with the time God gives us. We're going to look at some radical instructions Jesus ever gave anyone, and it’s all about being generous.

Mark 10:17-27

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My Time

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:00:00 GMT

We talked about Margin last week. We all have time, money, moral, relational limits. Our tendency is to live with out margin, to jam pack our calendar, to spend all of our money. The problem is when we live that way we squeeze all the margin out of our life, and we have no reserve.

Ephesians 5:15-17

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My Margin

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:00:00 GMT

Have you ever seen the show, “Wipeout?” We love watching live footage of wrecks, but in the real world, there is nothing fun about watching people out of control. It’s not entertaining. There is no margin for error when we live on the edge.

Matthew 11:28-29

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God Incarnate

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We have been looking at the reality of the Living God in the person of Jesus Christ. In the text this morning, we hear exactly that, God becoming human. This is what Christmas is about, God becoming human, it is called the doctrine of the incarnation.

Hebrews 2:5-18

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God Is With Us

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We have been looking at how approachable God is, realizing he is a living God. In the text today, we see the nature of Jesus as he is also called Emmanuel, or God with us.

Matt 1:18-25

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We Can Know God

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:00:00 GMT

One of the indicators that you know God is spiritual growth. This book, 2 Peter is about that. Peter is encouraging Christ followers to grow in grace and peace exponentially. This is why disciplines like prayer, meditation, fasting, bible study and gathering in groups are so important to spiritual growth.

2 Peter 1:1-9

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The Approachable God

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We have been looking at one characteristic of God each week leading up to the arrival of Jesus Christ. The text this morning is written by the Apostle John, when he wrote this letter he was the last one alive that was hand picked by Jesus, a personally trained messenger of the gospel.

1 John 1:1 - 2:1

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God Has A Name

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:00:00 GMT

In this series, leading up to Advent, we are looking at a different characteristic of the living God. We said this is the most practical thing we can do when we are feeling anxious, angry, or prideful, because at that moment we are forgetting who God is or we don't know who God is.

Exodus 3:1-14

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The God Who Is

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are going to be looking at the character of God. Each week for the next 6 weeks we are going to look at the God of the Bible in depth and in detail. We are going to look at attributes of God and learn who the God of the Bible is. We are going to start by looking at the existence of God, as we approach the Advent season, we will conclude by looking at the incarnation of God, the birth of Christ, rather, God with flesh.

Romans 1:16-25

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Wait, What Am I Doing?

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The grace of God not only changes us individually, but it changes us in community as well. Today's reading is about the meltdown of community and the restoration of it. We will take a closer look at a family's dynamic in this situation, focusing on the young man. The family is ultimately restored, only with an underlying theme of repentance.

Luke 15:11-20

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I'll Take Mine Now

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are looking at how the grace of God not only changes us individually, it changes us in community as well. This parable, is about the meltdown of community and the restoration of it. The family in this story unravels as does the young man in the story. This is also about how the young man and the family get restored. The theme of this is repentance.

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1 > 99

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are going to look at the parables of Jesus in Luke 15. Jesus is dealing with the Pharisees, they are having some problems with Jesus' teaching. These issues serve as subject matter for Jesus as he launches into these parables. Jesus uses the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son as extended metaphors to answer their inquiries. These are famous parables, church or not, people are familiar with them. These parables show how the grace of God not only changes us individually, it also changes us, as the church, into a unique community.

Luke 15:1-10

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The NEXT10 Part 3 : Leadership Development

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:00:00 GMT

For the church to continue on its mission, there must be people to carry it forward into the future. We desire to create servant-leaders who are willing to raise the bar of commitment and service. We need servant-leaders to make our values tangible. Our hope is to have servant-leaders be about multiplication' our desire is to plant churches in the cities of the world and create communities of taith that are intentional and purposeful.

The NEXT10 : Leadership Development

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The NEXT10 Part 2 : Spiritual Growth

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:24:44 GMT

From the mission, our church has a responsibility to offer opportunities for people to grow and mature in their understanding of the abundant life of Christ. Spiritual growth is about reordering our life to worship Jesus, thus we want to create a culture of learning and maturity. We want to have classes and groups that give each person tools and experiences that will enable them to become fully devoted followers of Jesus.

Acts 2:42-47

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The NEXT10 Part 1 : Mission

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Every church has a uniqueness, this uniqueness isn't style or programming, rather it is found in the culture the church creates. At All Saints, our unique mission is to introduce the people of Seattle to the reality of the abundant life of Christ. We have an opportunity to release men and women into the city to live out this mission in a way that will create abundant life stories of transformed lives.

The NEXT10 Part 1: Mission

Matt 28:18-20, John 17:15-17

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Meditation

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are looking at a practice that is not practiced enough in the life of a Christ follower; meditation. In Psalm 1 the word "blessed" is used to signify total fulfillment. A question to ask, how do we get "blessed," how do we get total fulfillment? It comes to people who learn to meditate on the God's words. That is a promise. We are going to examine what that means and learn how to practice this in our everyday spiritual practice.

Meditation
Psalm 1:1-6

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Obedience

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Obedience
Psalm 119:32-49

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The Advantage

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Monty Hipp - "The Advantage"

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What Is Reality?

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:00:00 GMT

What is Reality?
Prov 5:16-23; Rev 21:1-5

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Self Control

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:00:00 GMT

This is the last in our list of the "Fruit of the Spirit." This is about training and exercise...in ALL things. It means "self-command." If you are not self controlled, you are out of control. That means, you are NOT free. We need this, because we are not in control; we have trouble controlling our tongue, thoughts, addictions and feelings. Constantly we ask, "Why did I do that?" or "Why did I say that?"

Aug 28 - Self Control
I Corinthians 9:23- 27, 10:11-13

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Humility

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:00:00 GMT

This is a tough subject, when you get to what the Bible has to say about humility, people look at you with the look of a dog hearing a high pitched whistle. It is something that turns their heads in an interesting way. This flies in the face of what our culture thinks about humility.

Humility
Philippians 2:1-11

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Integrity

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:00:00 GMT

This is the characteristic of faithfulness, integrity has everything to do with it. This is such a relevant topic with the economic crisis, government, and church. There has been such a failure of integrity in our society at all levels the trust level for these institutions is at an all time low. What does the Bible have to say about integrity (truth) in such things, in our personal lives?

Integrity
Ephesians 4:14,15, 20-25, 29

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Kindness

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The word kindness has a broad meaning in the Bible; sometimes it means honesty, compassion or a fitting attitude. We will need to look at this relationally, so we are going to look at "friendship." This will be a great litmus test for friendship, one that we all can apply to our own lives. Nothing is more humanizing or life changing than friendship. How? Let's look.

Kindness
John 15:6-15

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Patience

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

It's interesting, in "old" English the term longsuffering is used instead of patience. The literal translation for the word patience means to "suffer for a long time." That does not sound very encouraging. The character trait of patience means bearing up under difficult circumstances without giving up or giving into bitterness.

Patience
Romans 12:10-21

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Peace

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are looking at peace. The opposite of peace is anxiety, fear and worry. It would seem like we have an epidemic of the opposite of peace in our culture. A character trait of a person following Christ is peace. We are going to work on showing our city what this precious peace is about.

Philippians 4:4-12

Peace

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Joy

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are learning about the difference between a morally restrained heart and a supernaturally changed heart. There is a difference between using your will power and having the Holy Spirit change your heart. How do you know if you are trying to be good or know if the Holy Spirit has really changed you? This passage is going to tell us three things about joy.

Romans 5:1-11

Joy

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Love

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

This is a passage about change. Most of us have parts of our lives that we really want to change, but change is really tough. We go out to try to change parts of our lives and apply a lot of will power to do so, but we seem to come up short. In Galatians 5 , Paul lists nine character traits that are the results of a supernaturally changed heart; they are traits that can't be changed by will power alone. What we are going to do over the next nine weeks is look at each trait and see how they are signs of a supernaturally changed heart.

Love
I Cor 13:1-13

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A NEW Church For The City

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:00:00 GMT

In this concluding message to our series we are going to look at 3 case studies of what happens when the gospel gets out and into the soul of people in the city. The Apostle Paul was sent as a missionary to the city of Macedonia to plant a church in the biggest city called Phillipi. All of the interactions we are going to look at were in the city. We live in a big city, Seattle, it will help us learn how to take the gospel out into the city. It will also help us see into the future of All Saints as it pertains to our mission to Seattle people.

A NEW church for the City
Acts 16:13-33

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Faith & Your Work - Part 2

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The Gospel affects how you do your job, how you pursue your vocation. As a Christ follower, how does that affect your work? This passage raises the eye brows a little bit; it has a controversial topic that we will have to do some background work on. We are going to look at how we treat employees, co workers and each other in light of this passage.

Faith & Your Work - Part 2
Ephesians 5:21; 6:5-9

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Justice - Part 2

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The Gospel is intensely personal, it demands the whole person be committed to Jesus; not just our private life, but it also effects our public life. The Gospel creates a passion for justice in the world. As a Christ follower, there is no way to turn a blind eye. As people of God, it is necessary to take the gospel out into the world so it can bring the unraveled and broken into its original form.

Justice Part 2
Deuteronomy 4:5-8; 15:1-11

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Justice - Part 1

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The first part of a two part message on Justice.

Job 31:13-28

Justice Part 1

Faith & Your Work - Part 1

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 03:00:00 GMT

We are continuing to look at what the good news (Gospel) looks like out in the world. This week we are going to see that when you take your faith into your work it is going to affect how you do your job. God wants to rearrange the way we do our work so others can flourish. What does that mean? See you Sunday!

Faith & Your Work pt. 1
Gen 1:26-28, 2:2-17

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Go Tell Everyone!

Sun, 29 May 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Pastor Bill speaks from John 4:7-29

Go, Tell Everyone!

John 4:7-29

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All Aboard - 05.26.11

Thu, 26 May 2011 19:00:00 GMT

If you couldn't make it or want a recap, listen in on the All Aboard meeting.

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How Can These Things Be

Sun, 22 May 2011 03:00:00 GMT

For the next month or so, we are going to look at the effect of the gospel when it is taken outside the church. My goal is to teach people that it is most effective when it is introduced to people who have never heard it, seen it or received it. On the other hand, it daily centers those who have let it captivate them.

How Can These Things Be?

John 3:1-16

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When The Leader Returns

Sun, 15 May 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Pastor Don Ross of Creekside Church in Mountlake Terrace speaks and reintroduces Pastor Bill Berger from his sabbatical.

When The Leader Returns

Ex. 19:20, Ex. 34: 29-34, Matt. 17:1-8 and II Cor. 3: 7-18

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A Pastor's Joy

Fri, 13 May 2011 02:51:43 GMT

Paul desired that the churches he started be healthy and happy. This was a source of great joy for him. It's also a source of Joy for all pastors. This week we are going to talk about being a source of joy for church leaders.

Guest speaker Jason Deuman.

Philippians 1:1-11

A Pastor's Joy

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Go Ahead, Touch The Wound

Sun, 01 May 2011 03:00:00 GMT

It's exactly one week since the resurrection of Jesus occurred. What a day that was! Jesus appeared to one of his followers, Mary, then a couple of local guys and finally to a whole group of his followers. But the one key close follower of Jesus who wasn't there for all of that was Thomas.

What's it like when you are the one who didn't see and now everyone is on you to base your life on what they've seen but you haven't? What is it like to endure that pressure? What do you think? How do you respond?

We are going to try and live the experience of Thomas from his perspective. Was he a "doubter?" Did Jesus chastise him for doubting?

And we are going to try and see what all this says to us today. Is Thomas someone like us? What are his life lessons that can help us?

Go ahead, touch the wound
John 20:24-29

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He's What?

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:00:00 GMT

The first Easter started out with all Jesus' friends saying, "This is NOT going to be a very good day!" How could it be otherwise? Jesus was dead. And they were trying to make sense of all that had just happened asking, "Did all this really happen or are we just having a bad dream?" Then that first Easter begins to reveal its true significance in unusual places; in a cemetery, during a country stroll and in a secret meeting. For most of the day Jesus' friend are conflicted in their thoughts and feelings until the love story that each of them needed broke through to them. It's an amazing journey from despair and doubt to the beginnings of belief and trust.

Guest speaker Craig Mathison.

Luke 24:1-12

He's What?

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Weight And Weightlessness

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Markus Von Steinfort speaks from Matthew 16:24-28.

Weight And Weightlessness

Matthew 16:24-28

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The Little Children?

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Markus Von Steinfort speaks from Luke 18:15-17.

Luke 18:15-17

The Little Children?

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Plan B

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Pastor Scott Harris from Brooklake Church speaks. Do you remember the day you realized your plan wasn't going to turn out the way you dreamed it would? Your story takes a sudden twist that wasn't in the script you wrote for yourself. It knocks the wind out of you and you wonder where’s God in all of it. We've all experienced a shattered dream. There’s still hope because God is not done with our story.

Plan B

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In Christ - Part 2

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Pastor Paul Owen speaks from Colossians 2:8-23

Colossians 2:8-23

In Christ - Part 2

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In Christ - Part 1

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Pastor Paul Owen, the Associate Pastor at Shoreline Community Church, speaks from Colossians 2:8-23

Colossians 2:8-23

In Christ - Part 1

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The Shadow Of The Cross

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Markus Von Steinfort.

The Shadow Of The Cross

Luke 2:1-20

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Change On Purpose

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:00:00 GMT

Guest speaker Craig Mathison.

Change On Purpose

Acts 9:1-9

ALL SAINTS :: Podcast

My Money

My Stuff

My Time

My Margin

God Incarnate

God Is With Us

We Can Know God

The Approachable God

God Has A Name

The God Who Is

Wait, What Am I Doing?

I'll Take Mine Now

1 > 99

The NEXT10 Part 3 : Leadership Development

The NEXT10 Part 2 : Spiritual Growth

The NEXT10 Part 1 : Mission

Meditation

Obedience

The Advantage

What Is Reality?

Self Control

Humility

Integrity

Kindness

Patience

Peace

Joy

Love

A NEW Church For The City

Faith & Your Work - Part 2

Justice - Part 2

Justice - Part 1

Faith & Your Work - Part 1

Go Tell Everyone!

All Aboard - 05.26.11

How Can These Things Be

When The Leader Returns

A Pastor's Joy

Go Ahead, Touch The Wound

He's What?

Weight And Weightlessness

The Little Children?

Plan B

In Christ - Part 2

In Christ - Part 1

The Shadow Of The Cross

Change On Purpose

Distraction

Living The Comic Life

Love Lasts

The Deep : Ordering Our Inner Life

Money And The Power Of The Spirit

All Aboard - 01.27.11

Money And Grace

The Doctor Will See You Now

Money Woes

The Ultimate Life Group Leader

Jesus The Mystery

A Christmas Adventure

You'll Never Know, Until You Go

Jesus, The Good News!

Super Jesus!

Shaken But Not Stirred

Seen And Heard

Hard Core

Me For The Community

A New Day

Cut To The Heart Of The Matter

A Dose Of The Ghost! (The Holy Spirit)

We Have The Power!

All Saints Past, Present And Future

Who's Your Daddy?

Know Pain, Know Gain

Still Hoping?

The Asterisk

Practicing Hope

Sexuality And Hope

The Language Of Hope

A Deep Well