Order of Service:

• Prelude
• Be Merciful, O Lord: Soloist: Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned, be merciful, O Lord… All: Be merciful S: Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness, in you compassion, blot out my offence. Oh wash me more and more from my guilt and my sorrows, and cleanse me from all of my sin. A: Be merciful… S: My offences, truly I know them, and my sins are always before me; against you, alone have I sinned, O Lord, what is evil in your sight I have done. A: Be merciful… S: Create in me a clean heart, O God, put your steadfast spirit in my soul. Cast me not away from your presence, O Lord, and take not your spirit from me. A: Be merciful… S: Give back to me the joy of your salvation, let your willing spirit bear me up and I shall teach your way to the ones who have wandered, and bring them all home to your side. A: Be …
• Luke 23: 44-46: Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.
• Devotion
• Prayer
• Hymn 270 - Hail Thou Once-Despised Jesus (View)
• Blessing
• Postlude

Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Preacher), Andy Muske (Soloist), Rev. Prof. Dennis Marzolf (Pianist)