ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH (AFLC)
Rural Armour
Pastor: Kevin Czymbor
Organist / Violinist: Janett Uttecht, Steve Bamberg,
Renee Engelland, Hannah Lau, Becky Fechner
****************************************************** 19th Sunday after Pentecost October 4, 2026
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 80:7-19 (pg. 581)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
OPENING HYMN ————————————————- # 420
“Jesus Calls Us o’er the Tumult”
*Confession of Sins …………………………………………….. pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7 (pg. 676)
2nd Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14 (pg. 1166)
*The Gospel: Matthew 21:33-46 (pg. 982)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….………………… pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN ————————————————————— # 425
“Whiter than Snow”
Sermon: Acts 21 – “The City of Broken Peace”
HYMN ————————————————————— # 466
“O for a Closer Walk with God”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 285, 417, 497
554, 190
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ………………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ………………………………………….. # 390
Organ Postlude (* denotes – Congregation please stand as able)
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning! We ask our visitors to please sign the guest book and let us know how we may assist you in any way. God’s peace and joy be upon you!
Pastor Czymbor’s Cell: 412-420-8867 Church: 605-724-2532
Email: [email protected]
Church website: stpeterarmour.org
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
Monthly hymn #420: “Jesus Calls Us o’er the Tumult”
Memory verse: Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Today, through the gift of Holy Baptism, we welcome Doc Marvin Lau into the family of Christ here at St. Peter Lutheran Church. Parents Trevor & Kendal Lau, Sponsors Dickson & Sierra Bast, Logan & Courtney Sorenson, Jason & Emily Von Eye
Fall Festival on Saturday, October 17 from 10:00am-1:30pm at
New Hope Christian Camp in Platte. Lunch will begin at 11am and a time of worship at 1pm. There will be inflatables, carnival games, hay rides, pumpkin decorating, prizes, face painting, food and more! Come to enjoy some free fun for the whole family!
This Week’s Activities:
7th – Wed. – Council Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
11th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m. (Acts 22)
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.
CHURCH CLEANING: Oct. 5-11 Kendra Thies & Renee Olson
Usher for Sunday, October 11th : Scott Olson & Tim Engelland
*Call to Worship: Psalm 80:7-19
7 Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.
9 You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
11 It sent out its branches to the sea
and its shoots to the River.
12 Why then have you broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13 The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.
14 Turn again, O God of hosts!
Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
15 the stock that your right hand planted,
and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
16 They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;
may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
17 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
18 Then we shall not turn back from you;
give us life, and we will call upon your name!
19 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!
1st Reading: Isaiah 5:1-7
5 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
2nd Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14
4b If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
*The Gospel: Matthew 21:33-46
33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.