BLC Chapel Sermons

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• The Confession of Sin (p. 120)
• Hymn 467 - in God, My Faithful God (View)
• The Versicles (pp. 120-121)
• Choral Psalmody: Praise to the Lord (Psalm 150)
• Matthew 6:24-30: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?”
• Homily
• Magnificat (choral setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
• The Kyrie (p. 124)
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)
• Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord (View)
• The Collect (pp. 125-127)
• The Benedicamus (p. 127)
• The Benediction (p. 127)
• Hymn 71 - The Lord Hath Helped Me Hitherto (View)
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist), Andrew Wade (Instrumentalist), Prof. Ann Fredrickson (Choir Director), Hannah Caauwe (Pianist), Mary Martha Singers (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 182 - One Thing Needful! This One Treasure (View): vv. 1-3
• Luke 10:38-42: As they went on their way, Jesus came into the village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who was sitting at the Lord’s feet and was listening to his Word. But Martha was distracted with all her serving. She came over and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me.” The Lord answered and told her, “Martha, Martha, you are worked and upset about many things, but one thing is needed. In fact, Mary has chosen that better part, which will not be taken away from her.” (EHV)
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 182 - One Thing Needful! This One Treasure (View): vv. 6, 9, 10
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 182 - One Thing Needful! This One Treasure (View): vv. 8
• The Versicles (pp. 109-110)
• The Invitatory (p. 110)
• The Venite Exultemus (p. 111)
• 1 Corinthians 2:1-5: And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
• The Te Deum Laudamus (pp. 114-116)
• The Kyrie (Lord have mercy) (pp. 116-117)
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 117)
• The Collect (pp. 118-119)
• The Benedicamus (p. 119)
• Hymn 593 - On My Heart Imprint Thine Image (View)
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Morning Prayer, p. 167
• Hymn 470 - O God, Thou Faithful God (View): vv. 1, 2, 4, 6
• 1 Timothy 6:6-12: Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 596 - Praise To Thee and Adoration (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Micah Smith (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 25 - O Holy Spirit, Grant Us Grace (View)
• Luke 19:1-10: Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a ‘sinner.’” But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 451 - All That I Was, My Sin, My Guilt (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)