BLC Chapel Sermons

BLC Chapel Sermons

These sermons, devotions, and homilies were delivered as part of chapel services held at Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN. Chapel at BLC is held weekdays while school is in session for growth in our Christian faith. Additional podcasts, service information, videos and more are available on our Chapelcast web site, filterable by preacher or music leader. Bethany is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), a confessional Lutheran church body.

Episodes

Sermon from BLC Chapel - Wednesday, May 28, 2025

May 28, 2025 • 12 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. Romans 8:26-28: In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of t...
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Sermon from BLC Commencement Vespers - Thursday, May 8, 2025

May 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. 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.”
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Thursday, May 8, 2025

May 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Rev. Shawn Stafford was preacher for this service. Luke 15:1-7: Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” So He spoke this parable to them, saying: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost unt...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Wednesday, May 7, 2025

May 7, 2025 • 11 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service.
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Tuesday, May 6, 2025

May 6, 2025 • 8 mins
Prof. Tom Rank was preacher for this service. John 10:22-30: Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But yo...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Monday, May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025 • 12 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. 1 Peter 2:21-25: For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: “Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own ...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Friday, May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025 • 10 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. 1 Corinthians 15:19-20: 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.
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Thursday, May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025 • 14 mins
Rev. Tim Hartwig, President, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary was preacher for this service. 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.”
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Sermon from BLC Vespers - Wednesday, April 30, 2025

April 30, 2025 • 12 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. Luke 24:13-16, 25-27: Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. ... Then He said...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Wednesday, April 30, 2025

April 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. John 20:24-31: 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 agai...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Tuesday, April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025 • 6 mins
Rev. Prof. Mark DeGarmeaux was preacher for this service. John 20:19-23: Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. So Jesus said to them ag...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Monday, April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025 • 13 mins
Rev. Dr. Timothy Schmeling was preacher for this service. Job 19:25-27: 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!
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Friday, April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025 • 12 mins
Dr. Gene Pfeifer was preacher for this service. Psalm 86:11: Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Thursday, April 24, 2025

April 24, 2025 • 10 mins
Rev. Shawn Stafford was preacher for this service. Matthew 28:1-10: Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards s...
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Sermon from BLC Vespers - Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025 • 10 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. Hebrews 11:17-19: By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025 • 13 mins
Rev. David Thompson was preacher for this service. 1 Corinthians 15:1-8: Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and tha...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Tuesday, April 22, 2025

April 22, 2025 • 11 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. 1 Corinthians 15:51-58: Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible h...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Wednesday, April 16, 2025

April 16, 2025 • 8 mins
Prof. Tom Rank was preacher for this service. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26: For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new cove...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Tuesday, April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025 • 12 mins
Rev. Prof. Brian Klebig was preacher for this service. John 18:33-38: Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered him, “Are you speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning Me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered You to me. What have You done?” Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not o...
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Sermon from BLC Chapel - Monday, April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025 • 10 mins
Chaplain Don Moldstad was preacher for this service. John 12:1-8, 12-15: Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And...
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