BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Be Merciful, O Lord: Soloist: Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned, be merciful, O Lord… All: Be merciful S: Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness, in you compassion, blot out my offence. Oh wash me more and more from my guilt and my sorrows, and cleanse me from all of my sin. A: Be merciful… S: My offences, truly I know them, and my sins are always before me; against you, alone have I sinned, O Lord, what is evil in your sight I have done. A: Be merciful… S: Create in me a clean heart, O God, put your steadfast spirit in my soul. Cast me not away from your presence, O Lord, and take not your spirit from me. A: Be merciful… S: Give back to me the joy of your salvation, let your willing spirit bear me up and I shall teach your way to the ones who have wandered, and bring them all home to your side. A: Be …

- Philippians 3:12-14: Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 517 - If God Himself Be For Me: vv. 1-3 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Andy Schmidt (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist), Christopher Nelson (Soloist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 1-4

- Ecclesiastes 1:2, 2:18-26: Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Jake Kempfert, seminarian (Preacher), Cynthia Krause (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink: vv. 1-4

- Matthew 15:21-28: Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed.” But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, “Send her away, for she cries out after us.” But He answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” But He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.” Then Jesus answered and said to her, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

- Devotion

- Prayer #43, p. 152

- Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink: vv. 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Steve Reagles (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 256 - When Afflictions Sore Oppress You: vv. 1-3

- 2 Corinthians 12:7-10: And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 256 - When Afflictions Sore Oppress You: vv. 4 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), David Evans (Organist)

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- Prelude

- Announcement

- Hymn 258 - Lord Jesus Christ, My Savior Blest: vv. 1-5

- Revelation 3:10-13: “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 258 - Lord Jesus Christ, My Savior Blest: vv. 6 & 7

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 241 - He That Believes and is Baptized

- Romans 6:1-4: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 243 - The Pow'r of Sin No Longer

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Preacher), Cynthia Krause (Organist)

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- Prelude

- Hymn 239 - I Lay My Sins On Jesus

- Leviticus 16:7-10: He shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering. But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 333 - Christ, the Life of All the Living: vv. 1-3

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Doyle Holbird (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark Degarmeaux (Musician)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Prayer #41, p. 152

- Hymn 236 - Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus: vv. 1 & 2

- 1 Peter 5:8-11: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 236 - Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus: vv. 3 & 4

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

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- Prelude: “Allegro Spiritoso” by Jean Baptiste Senaille

- Hymn 23 - Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now

- John 1:1-3 & 14: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. … And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 586 - How Blest Are They Who Hear God's Word

- Blessing

- Postlude: “Trumpet Voluntary” by Jeremiah Clarke

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Organist), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Band Director), The Bethany Strings (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Announcement

- Hymn 231 - When Israel Through the Desert Passed

- John 12:35-36: Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 583 - God's Word is Our Great Heritage

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Andy Schmidt (Preacher), Cynthia Krause (Organist)