BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn: I Will Now Praise My Savior: * Hymn, I Will Now Praise My Savior (tune: ELH178) 1) I will now praise my Savior Who took away my sin. My faith in Him forever My heart doth keep within. His name I write there freely And keep it to the grave; He from my woes doth free me He all my sin forgave. 2) God, grant me learn the story, Myself, I never can! To Thee all thanks and glory From woman and from man; God grant me so to ponder To praise the Lord so well. Wherever I may wander My anger He doth quell.

- Isaiah 53: 6-9: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked— but with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn: I Will Now Praise My Savior v3: 3) He, like the sun arising Above the earth so wide, So wondrously in rising - In Him I shall confide. He closes ev’ry sorrow That may be found with me; My service let Him borrow, My heart I give to Thee. Translated by M. DeGarmeaux

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 247 - To Jordan Came Our Lord, the Christ: vv. 1, 2, 3 & 5

- John 1: 29-34: The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ I did not know Him; but that He should be revealed to Israel, therefore I came baptizing with water.” And John bore witness, saying, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He remained upon Him. I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 241 - He That Believes and is Baptized

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig (Preacher), Kaleb Schmidt (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Announcement

- Hymn 240 - Jesus, Refuge of the Weary

- Matthew 9: 9-13: As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him. Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 331 - A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth: vv. 1 & 2

- Blessing

- Postlude

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

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 23 - Lord Jesus Christ, Be Present Now

- Luke 11: 28: “Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it!”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 589 - Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 230 - Speak, O Lord, Thy Servant Heareth: vv. 1, 2, & 4

- 2 Timothy 6: 16-17: All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 232 - How Precious is the Book Divine: vv. 1, 3, 5 & 6

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Matt Moldstad, Peace Lutheran Church, N. Mankato (Preacher), Joseph Roemhildt (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- The Confession of Sin (p. 120)

- The Versicles (pp. 120-121)

- Hymn 494 - I Know My Faith is Founded

- 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.”

- Anthem: Prayer of Julian of Norwich C. P. Cooman: God, of your goodness, give yourself to me. For you are enough for me. Only in you do I have everything. Amen Julian of Norwich, 1343-ca 1416

- Homily

- Canticle: Nunc dimittis in d minor J. Stainer

- 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

- Hymn 1 - Blessed Jesus, At Thy Word

- Luke 8: 11-15: “Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.”

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Psalm 27: soloist: O the Lord is near… / Congregation: O the Lord is near… S:The Lord is my light and my salvation, there is nothing at all I fear; the Lord is the refuge of my life; of whom should I be afraid? C: O the Lord is near… S: One thing I ask of the Lord; there is only one thing I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. C: O the Lord is near… S: For God will hide me in his house and conceal me in the shelter of his tent. Even now my head is held high over those who would see me fall.O C: the Lord…

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux (Preacher), Prof. Ben Faugstad (Director), BLC Chamber Orchestra (Instrumental Group)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- The Versicles and Gloria Patri (p. 108)

- The Confession of Sin (p. 108)

- Hymn 234 - We Have a Sure Prophetic Word

- Matthew 7:24-29: “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

- Devotion

- The Responsory (p. 108)

- The Collect (p. 108)

- The Canticle (p. 108)

- Hymn 583 - God's Word is Our Great Heritage

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Nathan Wildauer (Organist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Prayer for Friday Morning, p. 170

- Hymn 333 - Christ, the Life of All the Living: vv. 1-4

- 1 Corinthians 1: 18-23: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save those that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

- Devotion

- Prayer

- Hymn 333 - Christ, the Life of All the Living: vv. 5-7

- Blessing

- Postlude

Service Participants: Chaplain Don Moldstad (Preacher), Arika Kleinschmidt (Instrumentalist), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)

Order of Service:

- Prelude

- Hymn 246 - God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It: vv. 1-3

- Titus 3: 4-7: But 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: vv. 4 & 5

- Blessing

- Postlude

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