BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Prayer for Monday Morning, p. 168
• Hymn 26 - O Holy Ghost, Thou Gift Divine (View)
• Philippians 2:1-3: Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 484 - Christ Alone is Our Salvation (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 479 - When Earth With All Its Joys Defeats Me (View): vv. 1 - 4
• 1 Corinthians 15:54-58: So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 479 - When Earth With All Its Joys Defeats Me (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Brad Kerkow (Preacher), Mathias Barents (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 246 - God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It (View): vv. 1 - 3
• 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 246 - God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It (View): vv. 4, 5
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Psalmody: P: Alleluia! Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers: C: Praise Him and highly exalt him forever. Alleluia! P: Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I cry to You all day long. C: For you, Lord, are good and ready to forgive. P: You are abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. C: Bow down Your ear, O Lord, hear me; for I am poor and needy. All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be forevermore. Amen. P: Alleluia! Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers: C: Praise Him and highly exalt him forever. Alleluia!
• Hymn 483 - Who Knows When Death May Overtake Me (View): vv. 1 - 4
• John 11:38-44: Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 483 - Who Knows When Death May Overtake Me (View): vv. 6, 8, 10, 11
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 464 - Sing To the Lord of Harvest (View)
• Acts 14:8-18: In Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked. Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!” And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes. But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” And with these sayings they could scarcely restrain the multitudes from sacrificing to them.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 465 - From God Shall Naught Divide Me (View): vv. 1, 4, 5, 9
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 72 - Thy Strong Word Did Cleave the Darkness (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Colossians 3:15-17: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 72 - Thy Strong Word Did Cleave the Darkness (View): vv. 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 482 - in Heav'n is Joy and Gladness (View)
• The Versicles (pp. 120-121)
• The Gloria Patri (p. 121)
• 1 Timothy 6:6-8: 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.
• O God, You Search Me and You Know Me Psalm 139: O God, you search me, and you know me All my thoughts lie open to your gaze When I walk or lie down, you are before me Ever the maker and keeper of my days. You know my resting and my rising You discern my purpose from afar And with love everlasting, you besiege me In ev'ry moment of life or death, you are. Before a word is on my tongue, Lord You have known its meaning through and through. You are with me beyond my understanding God of my present, my past and future, too. Although your Spirit is upon me Still I search for shelter from your light. There is nowhere on earth I can escape you Even the darkness is radiant in your sight. For you created me and shaped me Gave me life within my mother's womb For the wonder of who I am, I praise you Safe in your hands, all creation is made new. - B. Farrell, b. 1957
• Homily
• Hymn 47 - My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord (View)
• 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 581 - Draw Us To Thee, in Mind and Heart (View)
• Postlude

Service Participants: Adam Hoeft (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist), Prof. David Paulson (Choir Director), Mary Martha Singers (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing (View): vv. 1-4
• 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.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing (View): vv. 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 14 - Father, Who the Light This Day (View)
• Genesis 2:16-17, 21-25: And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” ... And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 81 - O Splendor of God's Glory Bright (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. David Thompson (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 73 - Thine is the Glory, Risen, Conqu'ring Son (View)
• Daniel 3:24-29: Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” “Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” Then Nebuchadnezzar went near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and spoke, saying, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, servants of the Most-High God, come out, and come here.” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego came from the midst of the fire. And the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them. Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God! Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 547 - Jesus, Brightness of the Father (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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