BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 202 - Thou, Whose Almighty Word

- Luke 2: 16-20 EHV: So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. When they had seen him, they told others the message they had been told about this child. And all who heard it were amazed by what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, which was just as they had been told.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 194 - Led On Their Way By This Triumphant Sign

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 193 - Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun: vv. 1-3

- 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

- Prayer

- Hymn 193 - Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun: vv. 4 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Pastor Ken Mellon (Preacher), Hannah Caauwe (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Prayer for Wednesday Morning, p. 169

- Hymn 200 - There Many Shall Come From the East and the West: vv. 1-4

- Luke 14: 15-24: Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat [a]bread in the kingdom of God!” Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

- Devotion

- Hymn 201 - Spread, O Spread, Thou Mighty Word: vv. 1-3, 6 & 7

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- The Versicles and Gloria Patri (p. 108)

- The Confession of Sin (p. 108)

- Hymn 197 - My Hope is Built On Nothing Less: vv. 1 & 2

- Matthew 28: 18-20 KJV: Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

- Devotion

- The Responsory: p. 108

- The Collect: p. 108

- The Canticle (p. 108)

- Hymn 197 - My Hope is Built On Nothing Less: vv. 3 & 4

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Nathan Wildauer (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 195 - On Galilee's High Mountain: vv. 1-4

- Acts 4: 18-20: So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 195 - On Galilee's High Mountain: vv. 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Responsive reading Psalm 28: P: Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways. C: When you eat the labor of your hands, you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. P: Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, C: Your children like olive plants all around your table. P: Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. C: The Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. P: Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel! All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forevermore. Amen.

- Hymn 190 - O Blest the House, Whate'er Befall

- Mark 10: 2-9: The Pharisees came and asked (Jesus), “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him. And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.” And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 148 - Praise God the Lord, Ye Sons of Men: vv. 1-4 & 8

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 189 - in House and Home Where Man and Wife: vv. 1-3

- 1 Timothy 4: 8: For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 189 - in House and Home Where Man and Wife: vv. 4

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Nick Proksch (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 167 - How Lovely Shines the Morning Star: congr. vv. 1, 3 & 5 choir vv. 2 & 4

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Choir: Lead Me, Lord setting S. Wesley: Lead me, Lord, lead me in Thy righteousness, Make Thy way plain before my face. For it is Thou, Lord, Thou, Lord only, That makest me dwell in safety

- John 2: 1-11: On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, “Fill the water-pots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!” This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.

- Homily

- The Versicle (p. 122)

- The Nunc Dimittis (p. 124)

- The Kyrie (p. 124)

- The Lord's Prayer (p. 125)

- Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord

- The Collect (pp. 125-127)

- The Benedicamus (p. 127)

- The Benediction (p. 127)

- Hymn 584 - Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord: vv. 6 & 7

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Jake Marzinske (Organist), BLC Concert Choir (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Responsive Reading and Prayer: Proverbs 1: 7-10: P: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, C: But fools despise wisdom and instruction. P: Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. C: They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. P: Lord God, send Your blessing upon every husband and wife that they may not provoke each other to anger and strife, C: But live peaceably together in love and godliness, and raise their children in accordance with Your will; P: Through Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, C: Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one true God, now and forever. Amen.

- Hymn 182 - One Thing Needful! This One Treasure: vv. 1 & 2

- Deuteronomy 6: 4-7: “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.”

- Devotion

- Installation of New Faculty and Staff: Angie Phares and Laura Evans

- Hymn 182 - One Thing Needful! This One Treasure: vv. 8 & 10

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 188 - Hear Us Now, Our God and Father: vv. 1 & 2

- Ephesians 6: 1-4: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 188 - Hear Us Now, Our God and Father: vv. 3

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Luke Ulrich, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato (Preacher), Jake Marzinske (Organist)