BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- I Will Sing to My God Exodus 15 Haugen: Soloist: I will sing to my God who delivers me from death, into life, into freedom through the sea. Congregation: I will sing to my God who delivers me from death, into life, into freedom through the sea. S: My Strength and my courage, my joy and my song; My Savior, the one who delivers me. C:I will sing to my God who delivers me from death, into life, into freedom through the sea. S: The forces of darkness you hurled into the sea; Your power, your hand has delivered me. C: I will sing to my God who delivers me from death, into life, into freedom through the sea. S: You lead all your people from darkness to light; You open the sea and deliver me. C: I will sing to my God who delivers me from death, into life, into freedom through the sea.

- 1 Corinthians 15: 54-57: 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.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 353 - Jesus Lives! the Vict'ry's Won

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist), Kayelynn Lawson (Soloist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink: vv. 1-4

- Matthew 9: 18-19 & 23-26: While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.” So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples. ..... When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” And they ridiculed Him. But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose. And the report of this went out into all that land.

- Devotion

- Choir anthem: 'With a Voice of Singing' Martin Shaw, arr. Alice Carpenter

- Prayer

- Hymn 364 - O For a Faith That Will Not Shrink: vv. 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist), Norseland Lutheran Church Children's Choir (Choral Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- The Confession of Sin (p. 120)

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Colossians 3: 1-4: If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

- Anthem: Have I Not Commanded You?: N. Wayne, 2022 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage Do not be afraid or dismayed, For the Lord, your God, is with you. Joshua 1:9 Homily

- Homily

- Canticle: Magnificat in B-flat Stanford

- 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)

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude: Lasst tuns erfreuen, setting by Valerie Floeter

- Taste and See B. Hurd: Soloist: Taste and see, O taste and see, taste and see the goodness of God. Taste and see… Congregation: Taste and see, O taste and see, taste and see the goodness of God. Taste and see… S: Glory to God most high; glory, blessing and praise! With one voice, O people, rejoice in our God, who hears the cry of all in need. C: O, taste and see… S: Who has fashioned the earth and sky, who created the deep: who exalts the lowly and sets captives free, who opens the door to all those who seek. C: O, taste and see… S: Oh, the love of God! Become flesh of our flesh, so that we might live in glory! C: O, taste and see…

- John 20: 24-29: 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.”

- Devotion

- Rite of Confirmation: Jason Skillicorn has taken an Adult Confirmation Class through Bethany, and is now joining Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Mankato

- Hymn 361 - Faith is a Living Pow'r From Heav'n: vv. 1,2 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist), Annaliese Emmons (Singer), Chloe Kuhlman (Pianist), Gabe Smith (Instrumentalist), Rev. Luke Ulrich, Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Mankato (Liturgist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King: vv. 1-4 all, vv. 5-7, choir

- 1 John 5: 4-5: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 366 - Ye Sons and Daughters of the King: vv. 8 & 9 choir, vv. 10, all

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Prof. Tom Rank (Preacher), Nathan Wildauer (Organist), Scarville Lutheran School Children's Choir (Participant #3 Role)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 359 - Worthy is Christ, the Lamb Who Was Slain

- Isaiah 25: 6-9: 6 And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. 7 And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. 9 And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 348 - He is Arisen! Glorious Word!

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Dr. Timothy Schmeling (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude: "Two Selections From Mozart's Requiem Mass" by W.A. Mozart

- Hymn 354 - Like the Golden Sun Ascending: vv. 1, 2 & 5

- Job 19: 23-27: “Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book! That they were engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead, forever! 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 354 - Like the Golden Sun Ascending: vv. 6, 9 & 10

- Blessing

- Postlude: "Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3" by J.S. Bach

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 351 - I Know That My Redeemer Lives: vv. 1-3, 6 & 8

- 1 Kings 17: 17-24: Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him. So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?” And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. Then he cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, have You also brought tragedy on the widow with whom I lodge, by killing her son?” And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to the Lord and said, “O Lord my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him.” Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived. And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives!” Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is the truth.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 352 - Jesus Christ is Ris'n Today: vv. 1 & 2

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Max Kerr (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Versicles from Psalm 118: P: The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; C: The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. P: I shall not die, but live C: And declare the works of the Lord!

- Hymn 341 - Awake, My Heart, With Gladness: vv. 1-4

- 1 Corinthians 5: 12-20: Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 341 - Awake, My Heart, With Gladness: vv. 6 & 8

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Shawn Stafford (Preacher), Laura Matzke (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- The Versicles (pp. 109-110)

- The Invitatory (p. 110)

- The Venite exultimus (p. 111)

- 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.”

- Hymn 343 - Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands: vv. 1-3

- Devotion

- Hymn 343 - Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands: vv. 4 & 5

- The Kyrie (Lord have mercy) (pp. 116-117)

- The Lord's Prayer (p. 117)

- Prayer #63, p. 155

- The Benedicamus (p. 119)

- The Benediction (p. 119)

- Hymn 343 - Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands: vv. 6 & 7

- Postlude

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