Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 268 - On Mary, Virgin Undefiled (View): vv. 1, 4, 5, 6
• Isaiah 9:6: For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 109 - Hark the Glad Sound! the Savior Comes (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Nathan Nikoley (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 90 - Savior of the Nations, Come (View)
• Matthew 3:1-6: In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the LORD; Make His paths straight.’ ” Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 106 - On Jordan's Bank the Herald's Cry (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 105 - Rise, Children of the Kingdom (View)
• Romans 13:11-14: And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 98 - Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

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)