BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Psalm 16: Center of My Life: O Lord, you are... / O Lord, you are... Keep me safe, O God, I take refuge in you. I say to the Lord, "You are my God. My happiness lies in you alone." / O Lord, you are... I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel, who even at night directs my heart. I keep the Lord ever in my sight; since he is at my right hand I shall stand firm. / O Lord, you are... And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad; even in safety shall my body rest. For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay. / O Lord, you are... You will show me the path of life, the fullness of joy in your presence, at your right-hand happiness forever./ O Lord...
• Numbers 21:4-9: Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.” So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 341 - Awake, My Heart, With Gladness (View): vv. 1, 4, 6, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Caleb Von Deylen, Seminarian (Preacher), Cyril Palm (Singer), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives (View): vv. 1 - 4
• Luke 23:36-49: Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have you any food here?” So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish [b]and some honeycomb. And He took it and ate in their presence. Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city [d]of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives (View): vv. 5 - 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink (View): vv. 1 - 4
• John 20:24-31: Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.” And Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink (View): vv. 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. John Petersen, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato (Preacher), Philip Smith (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (View): vv. 1, 2, 4, 5
• John 20:19-23: On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King (View): vv. 6, 7, 8
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 359 - Worthy is Christ, the Lamb Who Was Slain (View)
• Job 19:25-27: For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 341 - Awake, My Heart, With Gladness (View): vv. 1, 2, 4, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (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)
• Deuteronomy 6:1-9: “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you—‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 343 - Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (View): vv. 1,4, 5, 6, 7
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Caleb Strutz, Seminarian (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Natalie Henning (Soloist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
• Hymn 255 - Lord, Hear the Voice of My Complaint (View): vv. 1, 4
• A Canticle (p. 105)
• Prelude: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele
• Hymn 328 - Soul, Adorn Thyself With Gladness (View): vv. 8
• The Lesson (p. 134)
• Prelude: Herzlich tut mich verlangen
• Hymn 334 - O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (View): vv. 4, 8
• Prelude: Christus, der uns selig macht
• Christ, Through Whom We All Are Blest: vv. 1, 8
• Kyrie, Lord’s Prayer
• Prelude: Christ lag in Todesbanden
• Hymn 343 - Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands (View): vv. 1, 7
• The Collect of Thanks (p. 105)
• The Benediction (p. 106)
• Prelude: Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag
• The Day Hath Dawned — The Day of Days

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Micah Smith (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 356 - The Day of Resurrection (View)
• The Versicles (pp. 109-110)
• Revelation 1:17-18: When I saw Him (Christ), I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.”
• Devotion
• The Kyrie (Lord have mercy) (pp. 116-117)
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 117)
• The Collect (pp. 118-119)
• Hymn 354 - Like the Golden Sun Ascending (View): vv. 1, 2, 6
• Postlude

Service Participants: Prof. Tom Rank (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 355 - Now Christ is Risen (View): vv. 1 - 6
• 1 Corinthians 15:54-58: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 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.
• Choir: Easter Chant by Gordon Young: Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Alleluia! Jesus Christ is risen Today! Alleluia! Alleluia! Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
• Prayer
• Hymn 352 - Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• The Versicles and Gloria Patri (p. 108)
• The Confession of Sin (p. 108)
• Hymn 281 - O Love, How Deep, How High, How Broad (View): vv. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7
• Philippians 2:3-8: Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
• Devotion
• The Responsory (p. 108)
• The Collect (p. 108)
• The Canticle (p. 108)
• Hymn 283 - Glory Be To Jesus, Who in Bitter Pains (View)
• Postlude

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