Order of Service:

* Prelude

* The Versicles & Gloria

* The Lection: I Samuel 16 & 17 (select verses)

* The Devotion

* The Te Deum Laudamus

* The Kyrie & Lord's prayer

* The Collect, Benedicamus, etc.

* Postlude

I Samuel 16 & 17 (select verses) Thus Jesse made seven of his sons

pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen

these." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all the young men here?" Then

he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the

sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him. For we will not

sit down till he comes here." So he sent and brought him in. Now

(David) was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the LORD

said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!" Then Samuel took the

horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the

Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. … So David

rose early in the morning, … and he came to the camp as the army was

going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. … Then as he

talked with (his brothers), there was the champion, the Philistine of

Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines;

and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. …

Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be

done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach

from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should

defy the armies of the living God?" Now when the words which David

spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him.

Then David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him; your

servant will go and fight with this Philistine." And Saul said to

David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with

him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." But

David said to Saul, …"Your servant has killed both lion and bear;

and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he

has defied the armies of the living God." Moreover David said, "The

LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of

the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And

Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!" So Saul clothed

David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also

clothed him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armor

and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul,

"I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them." So David took

them off. Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself

five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag,

in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew

near to the Philistine. So the Philistine came, and began drawing near

to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. And when

the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he

was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. So the Philistine said to

David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the

Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David,

"Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and

the beasts of the field!" Then David said to the Philistine, "You come

to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to

you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,

whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand,

and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will

give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the

air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that

there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the

LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S,

and He will give you into our hands." …Then David put his hand in

his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the

Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead,

and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the

Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and

killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore

David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it

out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And

when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. Now

the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the

Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley and to the gates of

Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to

Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron. Then the children of Israel

returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents.

And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem,

but he put his armor in his tent.

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