BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 16 - From All That Dwell Below the Skies (View)
• 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11: But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of dark-ness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 538 - The Day is Surely Drawing Near (View): vv. 1, 5, 6, 7
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), Nathan Wildauer (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Hymn 63 - Now Thank We All Our God (View)
• 1 Timothy 2:1-6: Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in [b]authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and [c]reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 602 - God Bless Our Native Land (View)
• Blessing

Service Participants: Pastor Ken Mellon (Preacher)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Announcement
• Hymn 33 - We Now Implore God the Holy Ghost (View): vv. 1 - 3
• John 8:31-32: Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 230 - Speak, O Lord, Thy Servant Heareth (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Brad Kerkow (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (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)
• 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 534 - The World is Very Evil (View): vv. 1, 3, 4, 10
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 529 - Vain World, Now Farewell (View): vv. 1 - 2
• Versicles & Gloria Patri: Led by the soloist
• Psalm 23: Sung by the soloist
• Romans 7:13-17: Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.
• Homily
• Canticle: Nunc dimittis (Hymn 48) setting by M. DeGarmeaux: 1. Duet, 2. All, 3. Duet, 4. All
• The Kyrie (p. 124)
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)
• Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord (View)
• The Collect, Benedicamus & Benediction
• Hymn 529 - Vain World, Now Farewell (View): vv. 3, 4
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist), Andy Muske (Soloist), Douglas Lindee (Singer)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 535 - Farewell I Gladly Bid Thee (View): vv. 1 - 3
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21-24: Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
• Devotion
• Prayer for Wednesday Morning, p. 169
• Hymn 535 - Farewell I Gladly Bid Thee (View): vv. 4, 5
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 440 - O Lord, Look Down From Heaven, Behold (View): vv. 1, 3, 6
• 2 Timothy 4:2-5: Preach the Word. Be ready whether it is convenient of not. Correct, rebuke, and encourage, with all patience and teaching. For there will come a time when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, because they have itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in line with their own desires. They will also turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths. As for you, keep a clear head in every situation. Bear hardship. Do the work of an evangelist. Fulfill your ministry.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 441 - O That the Lord Would Guide My Ways (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• The Versicles, Gloria Patri & Confession of Sin: p. 108
• Hymn 532 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense (View): vv. 1 - 4
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14: I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
• Devotion
• Responsory, Collect & Canticle
• Hymn 532 - Jesus Christ, My Sure Defense (View): vv. 5, 6, 10
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 557 - Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand (View)
• 1 Peter 2:9-10: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. At one time you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. At one time you were not shown mercy, but now you have been shown mercy.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 174 - Children of the Heav'nly Father (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Unless a Grain of Wheat: Refrain: Unless a grain of wheat shall fall upon the ground and die, it remains but a single grain with no life. 1) If we have died with him, then we shall live with him; if we hold firm, we shall reign with him. 2) If anyone serves me, then they must follow me; wherever I am, my servants will be. 3) Make your home in me as I make mine in you; those who remain in me bear much fruit. 4) If you remain in me and my word lives in you, then you will be my disciples. 5) Those who love me are loved by my Father; we shall be with them and dwell in them. 6) Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; peace which the world cannot give is my gift.
• Titus 3:3-7: When the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 246 - God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Glenn Obenberger, Pres. of the ELS (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Simon Kovaciny (Soloist)