Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 406 - Lord, Thee I Love With All My Heart (View): vv. 1, 2
• Revelation 21:1-5 (EHV): Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer existed. And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And from the throne I heard a loud voice that said, “Look! God’s dwelling is with people. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain, because the former things have passed away.” The one who was seated on the throne said to me, “Look, I am making everything new!” He also said, “Write, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 406 - Lord, Thee I Love With All My Heart (View): vv. 3
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying (View): vv. 1
• The Versicles (pp. 120-121)
• The Gloria Patri (p. 121)
• John 3:14-18: (Jesus said) “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
• Homily
• Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying (View): vv. 2 (choir)
• 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 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying (View): vv. 3
• Postlude

Service Participants: Adam Hoeft (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist), BLC Concert Choir (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Opening Prayer: P: Lord Jesus Christ, grant us grace to pass the time of our sojourning here in daily watchfulness, prayer and faith; C: Always looking for, and hastening the day of Your second coming when You will appear again in the clouds of heaven, with all Your holy angels. P: Do not let that day surprise us in unbelief and sin, but by Your grace enable us with all Your saints to lift up our heads in joy, and behold the fullness of our redemption. C: Hear us, O eternal Son of the Father, in whom with You and the Holy Spirit, is all honor and glory, now and forevermore. Amen.
• Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying (View): vv. 1, 2
• Matthew 25:1-13: “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bride-groom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, “Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, “No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’But he answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• Devotion
• Hymn 544 - Wake, Awake, For Night is Flying (View): vv. 3
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Psalm 1 (p. 174; Tone 1): spoken in unison, and "Glory be ..."
• Hymn 538 - The Day is Surely Drawing Near (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 538 - The Day is Surely Drawing Near (View): vv. 5 - 7
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Patrick Ernst, Seminarian (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 535 - Farewell I Gladly Bid Thee (View): vv. 1, 2, 5
• Matthew 24:30-35
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 543 - Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Prof. Tom Rank (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Prayer for Friday Morning, p. 170
• Hymn 536 - O Son of God, We Wait For Thee (View)
• Hebrews 10:23-25: Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one an-other in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
• Devotion
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 85)
• Hymn 539 - Jerusalem, My Happy Home (View): vv. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Nathan Nikoley (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 532 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense (View): vv. 1 - 4
• 2 Peter 3:10 -13 NKJV: The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 532 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense (View): vv. 5, 8, 10
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Glenn Obenberger (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 529 - Vain World, Now Farewell (View): vv. 1, 2
• Psalm 46:1 - setting by W. A. Mozart: God is my refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
• Homily
• The Versicle (p. 122)
• The Nunc Dimittis (p. 124)
• 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 529 - Vain World, Now Farewell (View): vv. 3, 4
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist), BLC Concert Choir (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 537 - Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Matthew 24:4-14: Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”
• Prayer
• Hymn 537 - Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning (View): vv. 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Hymn 52 - All Ye Who On This Earth Do Dwell (View): vv. 1, 2, 6, 7
• Jeremiah 29:7: Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
• Devotion
• Prayer for Our Nation
• Hymn 602 - God Bless Our Native Land (View): vv. 1, 2
• Blessing

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford (Preacher), Cyril Palm (Instrumentalist), Elsa Johansson (Instrumentalist), Nick Schmid (Instrumentalist), Noah Schmid (Instrumentalist), Renee Geving (Instrumentalist)