BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 250 - A Mighty Fortress is Our God: vv. 1 & 2

- Luke 12:32: “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches nor moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

- Devotion

- Hymn 551 - Lord, Help Us Ever To Retain

- Prayer #144, p. 166

- Hymn 375 - O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Organist), Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminar Choir (Choral Group), Paul Agenten (Instrumentalist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude: Prelude in E Minor — N. Bruhns (1665-97)

- Hymn 33 - We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost: vv. 1 & 2

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Psalm 46 (p. 180; Tone 2)

- Hymn 250 - A Mighty Fortress is Our God: vv. 1 & 2

- Hymn 251 - A Mighty Fortress is Our God: vv. 3 & 4

- Acts 2: 22-28: 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know— 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him: 'I foresaw the Lord always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’

- Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice: vv. 1 & 2

- Romans 7: 14-25: 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

- Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice: vv. 3 & 4

- Galatians 4: 4-7: But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

- Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice: vv. 5 & 6

- Romans 5: 6-11: 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

- Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice: vv. 7 & 8

- Luke 24: 44-48: 44 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.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 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, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things.

- Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice: vv. 9 & 10

- Homily

- Hymn 35 - All Glory Be To God On High

- The Kyrie (p. 124)

- The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)

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

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Paul Gullixson (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 549 - O God, Our Lord: vv. 1-2

- Hebrews 13: 8 & 9a: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 549 - O God, Our Lord: vv. 3 & 4

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Tom Kuster, Christ in Media Institute (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 521 - How Firm a Foundation, You Saints of the Lord: vv. 1-3

- Matthew 7:24-29: “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.” And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 521 - How Firm a Foundation, You Saints of the Lord: vv. 4-5

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), Nathan Madson (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 33 - We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost

- Psalm 118: 18-21: The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, And I will praise the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD, Through which the righteous shall enter. I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 522 - O Faithful God, Thanks Be To Thee

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Timothy Schmeling (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 517 - If God Himself Be For Me: vv. 7-10

- Revelation 3:14-22: “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. … As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.” “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 517 - If God Himself Be For Me: vv. 11-15

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Band Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 517 - If God Himself Be For Me: vv. 1-3

- 2 Corinthians 1:8-11: For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us, you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 517 - If God Himself Be For Me: vv. 4-6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 29 - Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty: vv. 1-3

- Hebrews 11:1-3: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 29 - Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty: vv. 4 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 518 - Rise! To Arms! With Prayer Employ You: vv. 1 & 2

- Ephesians 6:10-13: Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 518 - Rise! To Arms! With Prayer Employ You: vv. 3 & 4

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford, Religion (Preacher), Nathan Madson (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Prayer for Monday Morning, p. 168

- Hymn 519 - What God Ordains is Always Good: vv. 1-3

- Romans 8:31-34: What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

- Devotion

- Hymn 519 - What God Ordains is Always Good: vv. 4-6

- Blessing

- Postlude

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