The Day of Pentecost May 24, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 25:1-15 (pg. 541)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------ # 174
“All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……….……………....... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 377
“Forgive Me, God, For Things I Do”
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Numbers 11:24-30 (pg. 141)
2nd Reading: Acts 2:1-21 (pg. 1081)
*The Gospel: John 7:37-39 (pg. 1062)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed .……………...... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 67
“There Is a Green Hill Far Away”
Sermon: Acts 3 – “Ignorance is Forgiven, Not Excused”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 416
“There’s a Wideness In God’s Mercy”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Monthly hymn #174: "All Hail the Power
of Jesus’ Name"
Memory verse: Psalm 34:4-5
"I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my
fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never
covered with shame."
You are invited to attend our Memorial Day Service on Monday, May 25th, at 9:00 a.m. with the Armour Honor Guard participating in the Cemetery program. The offerings from this service go into the St. Peter Cemetery Fund.
Vacation Bible School will be held June 1st – 5th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. each day. There is a sign-up sheet in the basement. The VBS program will be held on Sunday, June 7th, with a potluck meal to follow.
The Deadline for submitting Recipes for the cookbook is June 1st.
This week’s activities:
31st – Sun. – Worship Service 9:00 am, (Acts 4)
~ Muffin Sunday, Ladies K - V
CHURCH CLEANING: May 25 – 31 Dannielle Revoir & Donna Picek
Usher’s for Sunday, May 31st: Rance Rankin & Max Hartmann
*Call to Worship: Psalm 25:1-15
25 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, in you I trust;
let me not
be put to shame;
let not my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall
be put to shame;
they shall be ashamed who
are wantonly treacherous.
4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
5 Lead
me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my
salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.
6 Remember your mercy, O Lord, and
your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth
or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love
remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
8 Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9 He
leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his
way.
10 All the paths of
the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who
keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your name's sake,
O Lord,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
12 Who is the man who fears the Lord?
Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
13 His soul shall abide in
well-being,
and his offspring shall inherit the land.
14 The friendship of
the Lord is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to
them his covenant.
15 My eyes
are ever toward the Lord,
for he will pluck my feet out of
the net.
1st Reading:Numbers 11:24-30
24 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.
26 Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27 And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.” 29 But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord would put his Spirit on them!” 30 And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
2nd Reading: Acts 2:1-21
2 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. 7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” 12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. 15 For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:
17 “‘And in the last days it shall
be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your
young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream
dreams;
18 even on my male servants
and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit,
and they shall prophesy.
19 And I
will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth
below,
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
20 the sun shall be turned to darkness
and the
moon to blood,
before the day of the Lord comes, the great
and magnificent day.
21 And it shall
come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved.’
*The Gospel: John 7:37-39
37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
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MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE - MAY 25, 2026 – 9:00 a.m.
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ORGAN PRELUDE
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 33:12-22 (p.547)
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
13 The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all
the children of man;
14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 he
who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their
deeds.
16 The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.
18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19 that
he may deliver their soul from death
and keep them alive
in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help
and our shield.
21 For our heart
is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even
as we hope in you.
OPENING HYMN…………………………..…… “God of Our Fathers”…………...……….……..…. # 628
1st Reading and Reflection: John 15:12-17 (p. 1072)
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
*Pledge of Allegiance, The Bible
I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's Holy Word.
A Lamp unto
my feet and a light unto my path.
Its words will I hide in my
heart, that I might not sin against God
HYMN …………………..…….…. “O God, Our Help in Ages Past”
…………..………………….. # 60
2nd Reading and Reflection: 2 Timothy 2:1-7 (p. 1181)
2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. 3 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. 5 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. 7 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
*PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, The United States Flag
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
OFFERING (will go to the Cemetery Fund)
*Prayer: Prayers for our Homes, our churches, our Nation, our Purpose
HYMN…………………………………....“America, the
Beautiful” ..................................…………...... # 630
3rd Reading and Reflection: Isaiah 6:8 (p. 678)
8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”
*PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, The Christian Flag
I
pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior for which
it stands. One Savior, Crucified, Risen, and coming again, to give
Life and Liberty to all who believe.
HYMN…………………………………....“My Country! ‘Tis of Thee” .................................…………...... # 631
4th Reading and Reflection: Romans 13:8-14 (p. 1127)
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
*HYMN……………………………… “Battle Hymn of the Republic”…………………………....... # 632
Weather permitting, the congregation will now proceed to the church cemetery for the conclusion of the service.
MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE AT THE CEMETERY
LEADER: Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay
down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Let us pray: God of our fathers and mothers, whose Almighty Hand has protected our nation, secured our liberties and blessed our people. On this sacred ground we bow in humble gratitude for the gifts of freedom, of life and of service to others.
ALL: O God, this day we pause to remember that our blessings, our liberties and our rights have been secured at great sacrifice to others. We treasure these gifts, knowing they are ours because of the valor of these fallen heroes.
LEADER: Gracious God, we also ask You to console and strengthen those who mourn the loss of their loved ones, especially those who have died in recent conflicts. Make us ever mindful of the courage and the sacrifices made by these and by all generations of Americans.
ALL: We pray for peace in the gentle name of the Prince of Peace. And we pray for personal and national redemption in the gracious name of our Redeemer and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
HYMN “God Bless Our Native Land”
1. God bless our native land, 2. So shall our prayers arise
Firm may she ever stand To God above the skies,
Through storm and night On whom we wait,
When the wild tempests rave, Thou who art ever nigh,
Ruler of wind and wave, Guarding with watchful eye,
Do Thou our country save To Thee aloud we cry:
By Thy great might. God save the state!
MILITARY HONOR GUARD CEREMONY
Reading the Names of Military Members Buried at our Cemetery
Rifle Volley / Playing of Taps / Moment of Silence
LEADER: We close our memorial service with the words of Taps.
ALL: Thanks and praise for our days. Beneath the sun, beneath the stars, beneath the sky, as we go, this we know, God is near.