BLC Chapel Sermons

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Responsory: P: Alleluia! Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Alleluia! C: Sing aloud to God our strength, make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob. P: O heavenly Father: Chiefly are we bound to praise You for the glorious resurrection of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; C: For He is the very Paschal Lamb, which was offered for us and has taken away the sins of the world. P: By His death he has destroyed death. C: And by His rising to life again He has restored to us everlasting life. All: Alleluia! Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Alleluia!
• Hymn 340 - Alleluia! Jesus Lives! (View): vv. 1, 2, 4, 6
• Acts 1:3, 21-22: After his suffering, (Jesus) presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. ... In those days Peter stood up among the believers... and said, “Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord went in and out among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of the resurrection.” (NIV)
• Prayer
• Hymn 350 - He's Risen, He's Risen, Christ Jesus, the Lord (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Psalm 16: Center of My Life: O Lord, you are... / O Lord, you are... Keep me safe, O God, I take refuge in you. I say to the Lord, "You are my God. My happiness lies in you alone." / O Lord, you are... I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel, who even at night directs my heart. I keep the Lord ever in my sight; since he is at my right hand I shall stand firm. / O Lord, you are... And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad; even in safety shall my body rest. For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay. / O Lord, you are... You will show me the path of life, the fullness of joy in your presence, at your right-hand happiness forever./ O Lord...
• Numbers 21:4-9: Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 341 - Awake, My Heart, With Gladness (View): vv. 1, 4, 6, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Caleb Von Deylen, Seminarian (Preacher), Cyril Palm (Singer), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Luke 23:36-49: Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have you any food here?” So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish [b]and some honeycomb. And He took it and ate in their presence. Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city [d]of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives (View): vv. 5 - 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Doyle Holbird (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink (View): vv. 1 - 4
• John 20:24-31: Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink (View): vv. 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. John Petersen, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato (Preacher), Philip Smith (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (View): vv. 1, 2, 4, 5
• John 20:19-23: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (View): vv. 6, 7, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)