BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 519 - What God Ordains is Always Good (View): vv. 1 - 3
• 2 Samuel 7
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 519 - What God Ordains is Always Good (View): vv. 4 - 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Dr. Gene Pfeifer (Preacher), Nathan Nikoley (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Come to the House (Psalm 100): Soloist: All the earth… Congregation: All the earth… S: Cry out with joy to God, all the earth. Do God’s work with gladness. Come to the temple singing for joy. C: All the earth… S: Know that Yahweh alone is the one who made us, we are God’s alone. God’s are the people, God’s the flock. C: All the earth… S: Come within those gates giving thanks, Enter those courts with songs of joy. Give thanks and bless God’s holy name. C: All the earth… S: Indeed, how good is God, whose loving kindness has no end. God shall be faithful from age to age. C: All the earth… (repeat)
• Psalm 1 (p. 174; Tone 1)
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 457 - Blessed is the Man That Never (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Natalie Henning (Soloist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Announcement
• Hymn 370 - The King of Love, My Shepherd is (View): vv. 1 - 3
• 1 Corinthians 2:1-5: And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 370 - The King of Love, My Shepherd is (View): vv. 4 - 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Introduction
• Hymn 65 - Praise To the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation (View): vv. 1, 4, 5
• Ephesians 2:8-10: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 441 - O That the Lord Would Guide My Ways (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 2 - Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord (View): vv 1-3; Procession of the Faculty
• The Versicles and Gloria Patri (p. 108)
• O God, Beyond All Praising: Choir: vv. 1, 2; Congregation: v. 3
• Colossians 2:6-10: As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
• Hymn 24 - Lord, Open Thou My Heart To Hear (View): vv. 1-3; Choir sings between verses
• President's Address: Dr. Gene Pfeifer, President of Bethany
• Installation of New Faculty and Staff
• Presentation of Scholarships
• Hymn 35 - All Glory Be To God On High (View): v. 1
• Kyrie, Lord’s Prayer
• Collect for the Opening of the Academic Year: Lord God, heavenly Father, We thank you that by Your grace You have given us Your holy and blessed Word, by which You also among us gather Your Holy Christian Church. We humbly thank You for providing us with an institution of higher learning, where the precious knowledge of Christ our Savior can be confessed and taught. As we begin this academic year, we ask that Your hand of blessing would rest upon teacher and student, that all learning may give glory to Your name, for the edification of Your people and the welfare of our fellow man. Help us, O God, by Your Holy Spirit, to keep Your Word in pure hearts, that we may be strengthened in Christian faith, perfected in holiness, and comforted in life and in death.
• Opening of the Academic Year: P: I now declare the Bethany Lutheran College Academic year of 2026–2027 to be in session, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, (+) and of the Holy Spirit. All: Amen
• The Benedicamus and Benediction (p. 127)
• Hymn 82 - With the Lord Begin Thy Task (View): vv. 1 - 5
• Postlude

Service Participants: (Preacher), Nathan Nikoley (Organist), BLC Concert Choir (Choral Group), Prof. David Paulson (Choir Director), Chaplain Don Moldstad (Liturgist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 443 - O That I Had a Thousand Voices (View)
• Luke 19:41:48: Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ” And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him, and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 30 - Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty (View): vv. 2, 4, 5
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), John Baumann (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 441 - O That the Lord Would Guide My Ways (View)
• Galatians 1:6-10: I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 589 - Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), John Baumann (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Introit for the Trinity Season: P: Alleluia! Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers: praise Him and highly exalt Him forever. C: Alleluia! O Lord, deal with Your servant according to Your mercy and teach me your statutes. P: I am Your servant, give me understanding: C: That I may know your testimonies. P: The Lord is the Strength of His people, He is the saving Strength of His Anointed. C: Save Your people and bless Your inheritance, shepherd them and bear them up forever. 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.
• Hymn 429 - Chief of Sinners Though I Be (View)
• 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 433 - Not What These Hands Have Done (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), John Baumann (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 426 - Jesus Sinners Doth Receive (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Luke 5:1-11: So it was, as the multitude pressed about (Jesus) to hear the word of God, that He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats standing by the lake; but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing their nets. Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.” And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.” So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 426 - Jesus Sinners Doth Receive (View): vv. 6, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

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Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), John Baumann (Organist)