ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH (AFLC)
Rural Armour
Pastor: Kevin Czymbor
Organist / Violinist: Janett Uttecht, Steve Bamberg,
Renee Engelland, Hannah Lau, Becky Fechner
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Reformation Day October 25, 2026
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 1 (pg. 528)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
THE OPENING HYMN —————————————— # 420
“Jesus Calls Us o’er the Tumult”
*Confession of Sins ……………….……………….………… pg. 3
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 (pg. 115)
2nd Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-13 (pg. 1172)
*The Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46 (pg. 984)
*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 ————————————————————— # 190
“Sweet Hour of Prayer”
Sermon: Acts 24 – “Patient Endurance”
THE CLOSING HYMN ——————————————- # 426
“Almost Persuaded Now to Believe”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………… pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ……………………………………………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ………………………………………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
(* Indicates where congregation should stand if possible)
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.
Pastor Czymbor’s Cell: 412-420-8867 Church: 605-724-2532
Email: [email protected]
Church website: stpeterarmour.org
Announcements
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.
Anniversary Committee will meet after the service today.
Saturday, October 31st … Fall Family Night. 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. An evening of fun and fellowship for all ages. The night will consist of Crafts, science experiments, pizza, worship, Bible Trivia, and Bingo. See you there!
Ladies Bible Study on Women of the Old Testament will be held on Mondays at 6:00 pm. The first one will be on Monday, November 2. We will meet at the church. Books cost $11.00.
Please join the St. Peter WMF for a Thanksgiving Blessings Tea on November 21st from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. at our church. RSVP by November 10th to Joyce Sprecher 605-999-4470
This week’s activities:
1st – Sun. – Worship service with Holy Communion,
9:00 am, Acts 25
– Sunday School, 10:00 am
CHURCH CLEANING: Oct. 26 – Nov. 1 Sandy Lau & Tami Fink
Usher’s for Sunday, Nov 1st: Trevor Lau & Ty Fink
November Communion Lay Assistant: Ty Fink
*Call to Worship: Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
1st Reading:Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
15 “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. 16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.
17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
2nd Reading: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-13
2 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. 2 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. 3 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, 4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 5 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. 7 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. 8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.
9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. 11 For you know how, like a father with his children, 12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
*The Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46
34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, 42 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” 43 He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?
45 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.