BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• The Confession of Sin (p. 109)
• Hymn 44 - Thee, God, We Praise, Thy Name We Bless (View): vv. 1 - 5
• The Versicles (pp. 109-110)
• Ephesians 5:15-21: See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God.
• Hymn 44 - Thee, God, We Praise, Thy Name We Bless (View): vv. 6 - 9
• The Kyrie (Lord have mercy) (pp. 116-117)
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 117)
• The Collect (pp. 118-119)
• The Benedicamus (p. 119)
• Hymn 44 - Thee, God, We Praise, Thy Name We Bless (View): vv. 10 - 13
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 101 - The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns (View)
• Matthew 21:6-9: So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Hosanna in the highest!”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 99 - The Advent of Our King (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Glenn Obenberger (Preacher), Maddy Chavez (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 95 - Wake! the Welcome Day Appeareth (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Jeremiah 23:5-8: “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 95 - Wake! the Welcome Day Appeareth (View): vv. 5, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Prayer #144, p. 166
• Hymn 464 - Sing To the Lord of Harvest (View)
• Acts 17:22-28: Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’”
• Devotion
• The First Article: Creation (p. 32): I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. What does this mean? I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them. He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily provides me with all that I need to support this body and life. He defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all evil. All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him. This is most certainly true.
• Hymn 63 - Now Thank We All Our God (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 33 - We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost (View)
• 2 Timothy 4:6-8: For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 249 - Fight the Good Fight With All Your Might (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Pastor Ken Mellon (Preacher), Ellie Mittelstadt (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Hymn 489 - The Law Commands and Makes Us Know (View): vv. 1, 2
• Hymn 537 - Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning (View): Choir sings: vv. 1 - 3, interspersed with verses from ELH 285 (4), 432 (1), and 431 (4)
• Hymn 537 - Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning (View): All sing: vv. 4, 5
• Hymn 403 - God Loved the World So That He Gave (View): Choir sings: vv. 1, 4
• Hymn 537 - Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning (View): All sing: vv. 6
• Hymn 390 - Look, O Look, the Sight is Glorious (View): Choir sings: vv. 1, 4
• Revelation 7:9-10: After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
• Devotion
• Hymn 486 - The Church's One Foundation (View): vv. 3, 5
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Isabelle Gronfeld (Organist), Constance Langhorst (Choir Director), Scarville Lutheran School Children's Choir (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 542 - in Heav'n Above, in Heav'n Above (View): vv. 1, 3, 4
• Prayer
• Matthew 25:31-33: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 370 - The King of Love, My Shepherd is (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Doyle Holbird (Preacher), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

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)