Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday

• Traditional Services
  8 am & 5 pm | Chapel
  The Rev. Reagan Cocke (8 am) & The Rev. David Goldberg (5 pm)
  9 am & 11:15 am | Church 
  The Rev. Reagan Cocke (9 am) & The Rev. David Goldberg (11:15 am)
  
• Awesome Worship (Families)
  9:15 am | Hall Life Center
  Sarah Gividen
  
• Modern Worship
  11:15 am | Hall Life Center
  The Rev. Reagan Cocke
  
• Worship at Ascension
  8 am & 10:30 am | 2525 Seagler Rd
  The Rev. Libby Garfield
  

Worship Online

Includes Order of Service & Announcements

• Traditional Service | Church | 9 am
• Modern Worship | Hall Life Center | 11:15 am

All-Ages Education Hour 
10:15 am | Administration Building

• A Church Given to the Spirit | Hall Life Center
• Dynamic Faith, Vibrant Church (Newcomers) | Parlor
• Family Matters – Scout Room
   
  
• Nursery: 8:30 am — 12:30 pm
  2 months - age 2 | First floor nursery: Rm 104
• Children: 10:15 am - 11 am
  Age 2 - Kinder | Room 110 & 112
  K-5 | Lower Level: L16

Happening Today

SJD Blood Drive
Your donation can make a real difference—just one donation can help save multiple lives. Whether you’re a first-time donor or a regular supporter, we’d love for you to be part of these life-saving events. Walk-ins are always welcome 8 am - 12 pm in the Parlor. Sign up to reserve your spot!

Pickleball Lessons: Intermediate Adult
Whether you're picking up a paddle for the first time or looking to sharpen your skills, join long-time pickleball enthusiast and former instructor Eugene Leong for this fun, hands-on series in the Hall Life Center at 2 pm. With eight years of teaching experience, Eugene will help players build confidence, improve technique, and enjoy one of the fastest-growing sports in the country. Cost: $25 per series. Limited to 10 adult players per series. Sign up.

The Collect of the Day

Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

The Collect of the Day for Labor Day

Almighty God, you have so linked our lives one with another that all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives: So guide us in the work we do, that we may do it not for self alone, but for the common good; and, as we seek a proper return for our own labor, make us mindful of the rightful aspirations of other workers, and arouse our concern for those who are out of work; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Matthew 18:15-20

18:15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. 18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Musical Offering in the Church

Today, our upper voices lead the sung portions of our worship. They offer anthems by two significant Anglican composers, one from the eighteenth century and the other from the present day.

John Rutter, born in London in 1945, is one of the best-known English choral composers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he published his first compositions. His extensive output includes choral, orchestral, and instrumental music. In 1983, he founded the Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings, and he continues to be active internationally as a composer, conductor, and choral ambassador.

At the Offertory, we hear one of Rutter’s most popular anthems, For the Beauty of the Earth, commissioned by the Texas Choral Directors Association. Rutter sets the familiar text with a beautiful, lyrical melody, supported by an accompaniment characterized by sparkling, flowing lines.

During the Ministration, we hear Examine Me, O Lord by English composer William Boyce (1711–1779), one of the leading figures in the English church-music tradition of the eighteenth century. The text is drawn from Psalm 26, in which the psalmist asks God to search his heart and test his faithfulness: “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.” Boyce’s setting reflects the spirit of this prayer with music of dignity and quiet intensity, inviting us to consider our own hearts and our relationship with God.

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