BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 518 - Rise! To Arms! With Prayer Employ You (View): vv. 1 & 2
• 2 Corinthians 10:3-5: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 518 - Rise! To Arms! With Prayer Employ You (View): vv. 3 & 4
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Paul Fries, ELS Communication Director (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 520 - Soldiers of Christ, Arise (View)
• The Ninth Commandment (p. 31): You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not scheme to get our neighbor’s inheritance or house, or get it in a way which only appears right, but help and be of service to him in keeping it.
• The Tenth Commandment (p. 31): You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not entice or force away our neighbor’s wife, workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and do their duty.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 490 - These Are the Holy Ten Commands (View): vv. 1, 2, 10, 11, 12
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford (Preacher), Tamara Omar (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Responsory Psalm: P: Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. (Ps. 31) C: The Lord delivered me from all my fears. (Ps. 34) P: Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowler. (Ps. 124) C: The Lord is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. P: He is my God, and I will praise Him; C: My father’s God and I will exalt Him. (Ex. 15) 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 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord (View)
• Revelation 6:9-11: When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the Word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 555 - Rise Again, Ye Lion-Hearted (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” arr. by Valadez
• Hymn 511 - Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide (View): vv. 1-5
• Mark 14:38: (Jesus said to Peter) “Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 511 - Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide (View): vv. 6-9
• Blessing
• Postlude: “Ashokan Farewell,” by Jay Ungar / arr. by Custer

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Band Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

• Soloist and Congregation: Soloist: I will praise… / Congreg.: I will praise… I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me and have not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you have raised my soul from the dead, restored me to life from those who sink into the grave. / I will praise… Sing psalms to the Lord, you who love him, give thanks to his holy name. His anger lasts but a moment; his favor through life At night there are tears but joy comes with dawn. / I will… The Lord listened and had pity. The Lord came to my help. For me you have changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord my God, I will thank you forever. / I will…
• Psalm 119:9-11: How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 513 - My Maker, Be Thou Nigh (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• The Confession of Sin (p. 120)
• Hymn 510 - Fear and Love Thy God and Lord (View)
• The Versicles (pp. 120-121)
• John 6:66-69: From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Choir canticle: Adoramus te: Choir Canticle: Adoramus te, setting by Palestrina Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum. Qui passus es pro nobis, Domine. Domine, miserere nobis.
• 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): Led by the choir
• Hymn 580 - Almighty Father, Bless the Word (View)
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Psalm 115 (p. 189; Tone 3): (spoken responsively P: odd # verses / C: even # verses & Glory be to the Father...)
• Devotion
• The Lord's Prayer (p. 33): Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Hymn 435 - All Praise To God Who Reigns Above (View): vv. 1, 4, 5, & 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 488 - I Am, Alone, Your God and Lord (View): vv. 1-3, 8, & 10
• The Eighth Commandment (p. 31): You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not tell lies about our neighbor, betray him, slander him, or hurt his reputation, but defend him, speak well of him, and explain everything in the kindest way.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 489 - The Law Commands and Makes Us Know (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist)

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Morning Prayer, p. 167
• Hymn 534 - The World is Very Evil (View): vv. 1-4
• 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.
• Devotion
• Hymn 534 - The World is Very Evil (View): vv. 6, 7, & 14
• Blessing
• Postlude

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

Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Hymn 15 - Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty (View): vv. 1, 2, 4
• 1 Corinthians 5:1-5: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 497 - Praise the Almighty; My Soul, Adore Him (View): vv. 1, 3, 5, 6
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)