Happening This Sunday

Who's Preaching Where on Sunday

• Traditional Services
  8 am & 5 pm | Chapel
  The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill (8 am) & Allie LaRue (5 pm)
  9 am & 11:15 am | Church 
  The Rev. R. Leigh Spruill
  
• Awesome Worship (Families)
  9:15 am | Hall Life Center
  Holli Kight 
  

• Modern Worship
  11:15 am | Hall Life Center
  Dr. Kira Moolman Pettit

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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

• Hot Topics | Hall Life Center
• Family Matters | Parlor
  
• Children's Summer Sunday School
  Room 115 | Elementary grades K - 5th
  Room 122 | Ages 3 to PreK
  Room 120 | Toddlers
  Room 114 | Infants
• Youth Summer Sunday School | Rm 238

The Collect of the Day

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Matthew 13:24-30

13:24 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, 25 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. 27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Musical Offering in the Church

During the midsummer weeks, while the full choir is on break, we are pleased to feature several of our talented singers at the Offertory.

Today, we welcome tenor Sean Saunders, who has been a faithful member of the SJD Chorale for the past five years. A veteran music educator, Sean is entering his 21st year as a public-school choir director. He is a graduate of Sam Houston State University, where he studied music education and sang with the Chorale under the direction of Dr. Allen Hightower. Sean has also performed with the professional ensemble Cantare Houston under the direction of Kevin Rhile and has sung with and directed church choirs throughout the Houston area.

At the Offertory, Sean sings a contemporary arrangement of the beloved hymn Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. The text, written in 1758 by English pastor and hymnodist Robert Robinson, is deeply autobiographical, reflecting the author's journey from a rebellious youth to a devoted believer, as well as his later struggles with doubt. It was not until the early nineteenth century that these words were paired with the familiar tune we know today, which emerged from the folk hymn tradition of the American Northeast.

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