All Saints' Sunday

Luke 6:20-31 Connection through love. Connection through trust and choice. Connection through promise and hope. These are the things that draw and bind us together. These are the gifts theblessings, the beatitudes by which God has knit us together as a community, as the Body of Christ. Preacher: The Rev. Elizabeth Molitors. Read the sermon here.

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Alternate Gospel Used:Luke 9:10-17 : Everyone ate until they were full, and the disciples filled twelve baskets with the leftovers.

"God exists beyond the walls of the church, but when we come together here as The Body of Christ we are making real what we know to be true: that God gave us to each other, that God, working through us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. That together, with God, we are not just enough, but abundant. Overflowing. Five loaves and two fish transformed into food for thousands - with lots left over."Preacher: The Rev. Elizabeth Molitors. Read the sermon here.

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel: Luke 18:1-8The love of God for us is unconditional! Wrestle with the imperfections... move forward in trust... hold on tight... unconditional love WILL prevail!

Preacher:The Rev. Colleen Sterne.Colleen is a faithful member of Trinity, a member of the choir, an Episcopal priest, anda Judge on the Superior Court of Santa Barbara.

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 17:11-19

Jesus said, Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well. Wait a second.. huh? I thought the leper was already healed! Why does Jesus say to him, Your faith has made you well if he was already healed?? So it seems that our wholeness is connected to noticing when we are healed, which turns us back to God. But it goes even further than that --We seem to be called to use our voices in praise and thanksgiving! (Which we arent that prone to do.) When was the last time you had some kind of healing, whether physical or emotional, small or large? Did you say Thanks? Did I? ... take the time to stop and say thank you because the simple act of gratitude makes us whole ...Preacher: The Rev. Sarah Thomas. Read the sermon here.

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 17:5-10

The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith! Luke 17:5Being who we are, exercising the gifts we have, doing what we can do....​that ​ is faith. That is what is required of us. And that is enough. Jesus said, So you also, when you have done all that youwere ordered to do, say, ...we have done only what we ought tohave done!... All is well is whathappens when were faithful, even just a little bit. Its doing whatwe ought to have done. Its what happens when we pool ourcollective teeny tiny mustard seeds of talent and resources andconnection and showing up. Together is powerful. Together ishopeful. Together is strong. Together, we have enough - morethan enough.Preacher: The Rev. Elizabeth Molitors. Read the sermon here.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 16:19-31

Jesus said, "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. Luke 16:19-21What is the cost of not noticing? What happens to the one overlooked? What happens to the one who fails to notice? Preacher: The Rev. Elizabeth Molitors. Read the sermon here.

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 16:1-13

Preacher: The Rev. Sarah Thomas, Curate. Read Sarah's sermon here.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 16:19-31

Preacher: The Rev. Elizabeth Molitors. Read the sermon here.

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 14:25-33

Guest Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas,Missioner for Creation Care for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts.

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Gospel:Luke 14:1, 7-14

Preacher: The Rev. Sarah Thomas, Curate. Read Sarah's sermon here.