BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 437 - in Jesus I Find Rest and Peace (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Mark 5:35-42: While He was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.” And He permitted no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. Then He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw [a]a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly. When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.” And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all outside, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child was lying. Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were overcome with great amazement.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 437 - in Jesus I Find Rest and Peace (View): vv. 5 - 7
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Patrick Ernst, Eagle Lake Lutheran Church (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives (View): vv. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
• Job 19:25-27: For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 356 - The Day of Resurrection (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Announcement
• Hymn 525 - I Know of a Sleep in Jesus' Name (View): vv. 1, 3, 5, 7
• Hebrews 2:14-15: Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• If You but Trust In God to Guide You: If You but trust in God to guide you, with hopeful heart through all your ways, You will find strength, with God beside you, To bear the worst of evil days; For those who trust God's changeless love Build on the rock that will not move. What gain is there in futile weeping, In helpless anger and distress? If you are in God's care and keeping, In sorrow will God love you less? For Christ who took for you a cross Will bring you safe through every loss. Be still, be still, and wait God's pleasure In cheerful hope, with heart content, Trusting that grace which knows no measure will by unbounded Love be sent; Nor doubt our inmost wants are clear To One who holds us always near. Sing, pray, and keep God's ways unswerving: offer your service faithfully, and trust God's word, though undeserving, there find the truth to set you free; God will not fail to guide and bless those who embrace God's faithfulness - Arr. by David Cherwien
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Vicar Jacob Kempfert (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist), BLC Chapel Choir (Choral Group), Prof. David Paulson (Director)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 479 - When Earth With All Its Joys Defeats Me (View): vv. 1, 3, 6
• Psalm 90:1-6 & 12-14: Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. ... So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? And have compassion on Your servants. Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!
• Devotion
• Hymn 354 - Like the Golden Sun Ascending (View): vv. 2, 9
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Announcement
• Hymn 411 - Christians, Come, in Sweetest Measures (View)
• Luke 12:16-21: Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ “So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 266 - O Bread of Life From Heaven (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 263 - Jesus, Priceless Treasure (View): vv. 1 - 3
• Matthew 6:25-34: “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? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 263 - Jesus, Priceless Treasure (View): vv. 4, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 25 - O Holy Spirit, Grant Us Grace (View)
• Matthew 6:19-23 : “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 214 - Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Brad Kerkow (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 470 - O God, Thou Faithful God (View): vv. 1, 2
• Matthew 13:44-46: “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 470 - O God, Thou Faithful God (View): vv. 6 - 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Gabriel Gillespie (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Announcement
• Psalm 84 (p. 184; Tone 4)
• 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 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing (View): vv. 1 - 3, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 60 - O Bless the Lord, My Soul (View)
• Psalm 103:1-4: Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 596 - Praise To Thee and Adoration (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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