BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 80 - O Blessed Holy Trinity (View)
• Isaiah 55:1-3: Hey,all of you who are thirsty, come to the water, even if you have no money! Come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why do you spend money on something that is not bread? Why do you waste your labor on something that does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good. Satisfy your appetite with rich food. 3 Turn your ear toward me, and come to me. Listen, so that you may continue to live.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 586 - How Blest Are They Who Hear God's Word (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 411 - Christians, Come, in Sweetest Measures (View)
• Matthew 13:44-45: The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 264 - Jesus, Priceless Treasure (View): vv. 1, 3, 5
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 1 - Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word (View): vv. 1 - 3
• The Athanasian Creed (pp. 29-30) (View Page: (selected verses)
• Hymn 1 - Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word (View): vv. 4
• John 1:1-5 & 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. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. ... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Prayer
• Hymn 37 - We All Believe in One True God (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 16 - From All That Dwell Below the Skies (View)
• The Versicles (pp. 120-121): led by Concert Choir
• O Taste and See: O taste and see how gracious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. - Psalm 34 v. 8; R. Vaughan Williams
• Luke 10:38-42 (NKJV): Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
• Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains: Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh, whence cometh, whence cometh help. Thy help cometh from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He hath said, “Thy foot shall not be moved. Thy keeper will never slumber, never, will never slumber, never slumber.” Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh, whence cometh, whence cometh help, whence cometh, whence cometh, whence cometh help. - Adapted from Psalm 121:1-3; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
• Homily
• Hymn 35 - All Glory Be To God On High (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 2 - Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord (View)
• Announcement
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist), BLC Concert Choir (Choral Group), Prof. David Paulson (Choir Director), Mary Martha Singers (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 392 - On Christ's Ascension I Now Build (View)
• John 17:13-19: (Jesus prayed:) “Now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 389 - A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing (View): vv. 1, 2, 5, 7
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude: O Sons and Daughters of the King. arr. Jeffrey Blersch
• Hymn 385 - What a Friend We Have in Jesus (View)
• Luke 11:1-13: Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” So He said to them, “When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 387 - Prayer is the Soul's Sincere Desire (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude: Awake, My Heart, with Gladness, arr. Jeffrey Blersch

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Alex Matzke (Instrumentalist), Jack DePrey (Pianist), Laura Matzke (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 20 - Holy Ghost, Dispel Our Sadness (View)
• John 15:26 - 6:4: “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 401 - O Day Full of Grace That Now We See (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Hymn Study: Today Prof. DeGarmeaux guides us through a hymn study.
• Hymn 378 - Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice (View): v. 1; commentary; vv. 2-3; commentary; vv. 4-6; commentary; vv. 7-8; commentary; vv. 9-10
• Prayer
• The Benediction (p. 104)

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 374 - If Thy Beloved Son, O God (View): vv. 1 - 3
• John 14:1-6: “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 374 - If Thy Beloved Son, O God (View): vv. 374

Service Participants: Dr. Gene Pfeifer (Preacher), Jack DePrey (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 25 - O Holy Spirit, Grant Us Grace (View)
• John 14:16-21: (Jesus said) “I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 375 - O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Glenn Obenberger (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Kaleb Peek (Instrumentalist), Michael Harting (Instrumentalist)