BLC Chapel Services

Order of Service: - Prelude - O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name: P: O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! C: Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants you have perfected praise. P: Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me to Your holy hill. C: O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 306 - What Wondrous Love is This, O My Soul, O My Soul - Romans 5:12-15: Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-- (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Gradual and Introit: P: Christ has humbled Himself and become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. C: Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. P: Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. C: Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to Your holy hill. All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 276 - When O'er My Sins I Sorrow - The Versicles (pp. 120-121) - The Gloria Patri (p. 121) - Psalm 121:1-3 (setting: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy): Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains, whence cometh help. Thy help cometh from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He hath said, “Thy foot shall not be moved. Thy keeper will never slumber.” Lift th...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 268 - On Mary, Virgin Undefiled: vv. 1, 4, 5, 6 - Matthew 1:18-25: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But whi...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 301 - There is a Fountain Filled With Blood - Hebrews 9:27-28: Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. - Devotion - Prayer - Hymn 308 - When I Survey the Wondrous...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 298 - Sing, My Tongue, How Glorious Battle: vv. 1 - 4 - Matthew 16:21-23: From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shal...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 263 - Jesus, Priceless Treasure: vv. 1 - 3 - Matthew 6:19-21: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also....

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 468 - All Depends On Our Possessing: vv. 1 - 4 - 1 Timothy 6:6-12: Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts...

Order of Service: - Prelude - The Confession of Sin (p. 120) - Hymn 257 - When in the Hour of Utmost Need - The Versicles (pp. 120-121) - The Gloria Patri (p. 121) - Mark 15:21-32: Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country and passing by, to bear His cross. And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is transla...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 28 - O How Holy is This Place - Psalm 84:1-4: How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home, And the swallow a nest for herself, Where she may lay her young— Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, My King and my God. Blesse...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 54 - Beautiful Savior, King of Creation - Romans 10:11-17: For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not beli...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 24 - Lord, Open Thou My Heart To Hear - John 6:10-15: Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. There were about five thousand men. Then Jesus took the loaves and, after giving thanks, he distributed pieces to those who were seated. He also did the same with the fish—as much as they wanted. When the people...

Order of Service: - Prelude - The Versicles and Gloria Patri (p. 108) - The Confession of Sin (p. 109) - Exodus 8:16-24: So the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust of the land, so that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.’ ” And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and it became lice o...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 259 - The Kingdom Satan Founded: vv. 1, 2 - The Versicles (pp. 109-110) - Matthew 4:1-11 : Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” B...

Order of Service: - Prelude - The Confession of Sin (p. 120) - Hymn 293 - O What Precious Balm and Healing - The Versicles (pp. 120-121) - The Gloria Patri (p. 121) - Psalm 31: I trust in God, my Savior, my Defense. I hope and trust securely In Thy graciousness. Great Thy goodness toward those who fear Thee, Thou shalt preserve them from all slander; All lying will soon be still; For the Lord show...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 15 - Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty - Romans 8:31-39: What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 376 - Rejoice, the Lord is King: vv. 1 - 3 - Luke 11:17-23: But (Jesus), knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub. And if I cast out demons by B...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 278 - O Jesus, King Most Wonderful - Ephesians 5:8-10: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. - Devotion - Prayer - O Come and Live Within My Heart: 1) O come and live within my heart That faith...

Order of Service: - Prelude - The Confession of Sin (p. 120) - Hymn 297 - Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted - The Versicles (pp. 120-121) - The Gloria Patri (p. 121) - Hymn 500 - O Thou That Hear'st When Sinners Cry: vv. 1, 2, 4, 6 - Mark 14:53-72: And they led Jesus away to the high priest; and with him were assembled all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes. But Peter followed Him at a...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 281 - O Love, How Deep, How High, How Broad: vv. 1 - 4 - Mark 14:26-31: Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ “But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee.” Peter said to Him, “Even if all are made to stumble, yet I...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 283 - Glory Be To Jesus, Who in Bitter Pains - The Versicles (pp. 120-121) - The Gloria Patri (p. 121) - Mark 14:32-52: 32 They went to a place named Gethsemane. Jesus told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 Then he took Peter, James, and John along with him and began to be troubled and distressed. 34 He said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow,...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 253 - Rise, My Soul, To Watch and Pray: vv. 1 - 3 - John 17:14: I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. - Devotion - Prayer - Hymn 253 - Rise, My Soul, To Watch and Pray: vv. 4, 6 - Blessing - Postlude Service Participants: Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Hymn 249 - Fight the Good Fight With All Your Might - Romans 7:22-25: For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Je...

Order of Service: - Prelude - Prayer for the Week: O Lord, mercifully hear my prayer, and stretch forth the right hand of Your majesty to defend me from all that rise up against me. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the wicked foe may have no power over me, through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one true God, now and forever. Amen. - Hymn 25...