BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 545 - Lord God We All To Thee Give Praise

- Morning Prayer, p. 167

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 226 - By Grace I'm Saved, Grace Free and Boundless: vv. 1 & 4

- Exodus 14 (select verses): Exodus 14 (select verses) And the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.” … Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. … And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

- Devotion

- Prayer #113, p. 162

- Hymn 226 - By Grace I'm Saved, Grace Free and Boundless: vv. 9-10

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Christopher Nelson (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude: Ave Verum Corpus, Mozart

- Psalm 118: 14-17: The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation Is in the tents of the righteous; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly. The right hand of the LORD is exalted; The right hand of the LORD does valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

- Matthew 7:24-27: (Jesus said) “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

- Devotion

- Hymn 64 - Praise the Lord, Ye Heav'ns, Adore Him

- Blessing

- Postlude: Trumpet Voluntary G. F. Handel arr. B. Faugstad

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Andy Schmidt (Preacher), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 470 - O God, Thou Faithful God: vv. 1-4

- Numbers 23: 19: “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he changes his mind. Does he say something, and then not carry it out? Does he speak, and then not bring it about?”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 470 - O God, Thou Faithful God: vv. 8

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Matt Moldstad, Peace Lutheran Church, N. Mankato (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 1 & 2

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Matthew 13: 44: “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.”

- Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 3 & 4

- Sermon

- Canticle: Magnificat in B-flat Stanford

- The Kyrie (p. 124)

- The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)

- Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord

- Collect

- The Benedicamus (p. 127)

- The Benediction (p. 127)

- Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 5

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 302 - The Tree of Life With Ev'ry Good: vv. 1 & 2

- Romans 6: 23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 302 - The Tree of Life With Ev'ry Good: vv. 3 & 4

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Kyle Madson, Norseland Norwegian Grove Parish, St. Peter, MN (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 361 - Faith is a Living Pow'r From Heav'n: vv. 1-4

- Matthew 6: 27-30: Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 361 - Faith is a Living Pow'r From Heav'n: vv. 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), David Evans (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Psalmody: I Will Praise You, Lord - Inwood: Singers: I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me, I will praise you, Lord, for your mercy. I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me: I will praise you, Lord. Congregation: I will praise… Singers: I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me and have not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you have raised my soul from the dead, restored me to life from those who sink into the grave. C: I will praise… S: Sing psalms to the Lord, you who love him, give thanks to his holy name. His anger lasts but a moment; his favor through life. At night there are tears but joy comes with dawn. C: I will praise… S: The Lord listened and had pity. The Lord came to my help. For me you have changed my mourning into dancing; O lord my God, I will thank you forever. C: I will praise…

- Romans 12: 1-2: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 444 - Take My Life and Let It Be

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Kathryn Matzke (Singer), Leanna Matzke (Singer)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 462 - As After the Water-Brooks Panteth: v. 1 solo, v. 2 cong, v. 3 solo, v. 4 cong

- Psalm 42: 1-5: As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 462 - As After the Water-Brooks Panteth: v. 5 cong, v. 6 solo, v. 7 cong

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. John Petersen, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato (Preacher), Jennifer Haugen (Soloist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 56 - Ye Lands, To the Lord Make a Jubilant Noise: vv. 1 & 2

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Romans 8: 18-23: I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

- Hymn 56 - Ye Lands, To the Lord Make a Jubilant Noise: vv. 3 & 4

- Sermon

- Canticle: Nunc dimittis in B-flat C. V. Stanford

- The Kyrie (p. 124)

- The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)

- Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord

- Collect

- The Benedicamus (p. 127)

- The Benediction (p. 127)

- Hymn 592 - Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow

- Postlude

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