1. Hymnals of the LCMS Kirchengesangbuch (1847) (ed. by C.F.W. Walther)
Evangelical Lutheran
Hymn-Book (1912)
The Lutheran Hymnal (1941)
Lutheran Worship (1982)
Walther was musically trained and was instrumental in reviving the singing of the rhythmic versions of the Lutheran chorales.
When the English Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States joined the LCMS as the English District in 1911, they gave their newly revised English-language hymnal to the Synod as a gift. It was published the following year.
The Lutheran Hymnal was a pan-Lutheran effort with the other members of the Synodical Conference. Work was initiated in 1929, with periodic reports being given throughout the 1930s. 1

2. A Quick Walkthrough Prayers for Worship inside front cover
Prefatory material (Roman numerals)
Table of Contents – Lectionary Readings
Introduction – Singing the Psalms
Church Year Calendars
Psalms (nos. 1–150)
107 psalms in the Pew Edition
All 150 in Altar Book and Accompaniment for Liturgy
Throughout the walkthrough, emphasize that our goal was to make the book extremely easy to use.
Walk them quickly through the prefatory material so that they are aware of what is there. Point out that the psalm tones are opposite the first page of the Psalter. 2

3. A Quick Walkthrough
Services and Other Resources (pp. 151–330, with page numbers at the top)
Hymns (nos. 331–966)
Acknowledgments and Indexes (Pages 990–1022)
Emergency Baptism (p. 1023)
Creeds and Lord’s Prayer at back cover
Rather than having some numbers at the top (hymns and psalms) and others at the bottom (liturgy pages in our previous hymnals), we chose to place all the numbers at the top. That way people will always know where to look.
The only exception to that rule is the first page of each service, where the number appears at the bottom. That seems a bit counterintuitive, but putting the number at the top of those pages would not have been aesthetically pleasing.
When you’ve finished the walkthrough, ask them to turn:
* to hymn 656
* then to Psalm 46
* then to the Sanctus on p. 161
* then to the back inside cover for a quick check of the
Apostles’ Creed. 3

4. Exploring the Services Five Settings of the Divine Service
Divine Service, Setting One (Page 151)
(LW DS II/1; LBW, Setting One)
Divine Service, Setting Two (Page 167)
(LW DS II/2; LBW, Setting Two)
Divine Service, Setting Three (Page 184)
(TLH, p. 15)
Divine Service, Setting Four (HS98) (Page 203)
Divine Service, Setting Five
(LW, DS III—Luther’s German Mass) (Page 213)
Explain that extensive comparisons between the services in LSB and our previous hymnals are provided in the Guide, beginning on pp. 9ff.
Those who are using TLH will want to know the similarities and differences between Setting Three and Page 15. Assure them that the texts and music have not been changed. A few keys were lowered for easier singing. And the language of some of the spoken parts was gently updated, something many pastors are already doing on their own.
The important point to make here is that any congregation currently using TLH, LW, or LBW will be able to transition to something familiar in LSB the first time it is used. 4

5. Exploring the Services The Daily Office (Morning and Evening Services)
Matins (p. 219)
Combination of LW and TLH
Vespers (p. 229)
Drawn from LW
Morning and Evening Prayer (pp. 235/243)
Compline (p. 253)
The Matins service is probably the best known of all of these. You can have them turn to p. 220 to take a look at the Venite. Point out to them that we made sure that the entire Venite would be on facing pages so that they wouldn’t have to flip the page back and forth as they did in TLH. You can also point them to the Benedictus on p. 226 and mention that we have lowered it two whole steps! 5

6. Exploring the Services Occasional Services
Holy Baptism (p. 268)
Confirmation (p. 272)
Holy Matrimony (p. 275)
Funeral Service (p. 278)
Providing these services allows the congregation to participate more fully. While a congregation may not be asked to turn to these pages during a wedding or funeral, having them in the Pew Edition makes it easy for the pastor to refer people to these services from time to time.
One way in which the services might be used would be during a Bible class on Baptism, marriage, or on death. Carefully walking through any of these services will quickly reveal how the way we worship reflects our teaching on these important topics. 6

7. Exploring the Services Other Service Resources
Responsive Prayer 1 and 2 (pp. 282 & 285)
The Litany (p. 288)
Corporate Confession and Absolution (p. 290)
Individual Confession and Absolution (p. 292)
Daily Prayer for Individuals and Families (p. 294)
Daily Lectionary (p. 299)
Nearly 100 prayers arranged by topic (p. 305)
Athanasian Creed (p. 319)
Small Catechism (p. 321)
You probably won’t have time to look at any of these resources. You will use Responsive Prayer 2 for the closing worship at the end of the workshop. Perhaps have them take a quick look at p. 305 to see how the topical prayers (nearly 100 of them) are organized. 7

8. Exploring the Services Summary of new musical settings
Kyrie and Gloria in Divine Service, Setting Four (p. 204)
Magnificat in Evening Prayer (p. 248)
Canticles in Service of Prayer and Preaching (p. 261 and 266)
This quick summary reveals how familiar the liturgical section of LSB really is. 8

9. Exploring the Hymns Where do our hymns come from?
The hymns reflect the breadth of the Church,
drawn from every time and place:
Our Lutheran heritage, which is well represented
Other Christian traditions
Around the world, including Africa (542, 833), Asia (871), and Central & South America (479)
20th- and 21st-century hymn writers — a veritable “hymn explosion”
Most people are not aware of the breadth of the church’s song, which spans all the way from chant in the early centuries of the Christian era, to the chorales of the Lutheran Reformation, to the psalm tunes of the Genevan Reformation, to the numerous waves of English hymnody, to America folk hymns, all the way down to contemporary songs. The more diverse a congregation’s hymn repertoire, the better. 9

10. Exploring the Hymns Criteria for Selection of Hymns
Texts with a clear biblical focus
Texts that are Christ-centered
Texts that fit with lectionary readings
New tunes that are inviting to sing and reflective of the text
Hymns from around the world
Approx. 100 hymn texts or tunes are “new,” i.e., never included in any LCMS hymnal or supplement prior to LSB
The Hymnody Committee sifted through thousands of hymns. And once a hymn was chosen, the text was carefully examined, especially if different versions existed in previous hymnals.
Not all of these “new” hymns are completely new. As you will point out a few slides further, some new hymn texts are paired with familiar melodies. And occasionally a new melody is paired with a familiar text. 10

11. Exploring the Hymns Familiar Hymn Texts Restored
“My Faith Looks Up to Thee” (702)
“I Am Trusting Thee, Lord Jesus” (729)
“We Give Thee But Thine Own” (781)
“Take My Life and Let It Be” (783)
Without disparaging those who prepared LW, you can point out that the trend in the 1970s was to update all language for worship. In more recent times, newly published hymnals have backed off of this drive to update texts, realizing that words like “thee” and “thou” are usually understood.
The committees distinguished between “archaic” and “obsolete” language, often updating the latter. See Guide, p. 36. 11

12. Exploring the Hymns Spanish and German Texts
Spanish text provided for almost 20 hymns (see index, p. 1022)
German provided for:
“Silent Night” (363)
“Müde bin ich” (887)
If you think you have time, you might want to have the participants turn to the index on p
These translations were included not with the expectation that the hymnal could be used by a Spanish-speaking congregation. Rather, given the increasing numbers of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the inclusion of these hymns serves as a reminder to all our congregations of the need to reach out with the Gospel to all people, many of whom are coming to our own shores. 12

13. Exploring the Hymns Concerning “Amen”
LSB includes “Amens” only for hymns that have chant melodies (e.g., 384, 455) and for the Common Doxology (805)
Congregations can choose to add “Amens,” for example, at the conclusion of doxological stanzas (marked with a triangle; e.g., 344) or wherever else suits local custom 13

14. Exploring the Hymns Settings and Harmonizations
Standard, four-part harmonizations are provided wherever possible.
For hymns and songs in other styles, settings appropriate for both piano and organ are provided in the Accompaniment for the Hymns.
Some hymns have been lowered both for ease of singing and playing.
No other issue has garnered more comments that the matter of hymn accompaniments. Try not to talk about this in a way that disparages those who worked on LW. Yet, practically everyone is quite aware of LW’s weakness in this area.
A quick perusal of LSB will demonstrate that we have heard and acted on the concerns that were raised.
See Guide, p. 40. 14

15. Copyright Law You must get permission to . . .
Print bulletins, songbooks, or song sheets containing copyrighted works, for use in church services or Bible studies
Make a transparency, slide, or electronic file of a copyrighted work for projection
Make audio or video recordings of services
A more complete discussion on copyright law can be found in the Guide at pp. 62ff. 15

16. Copyright Law and Lutheran Service Book
There are several options for
complying with copyright law:
Don’t reprint copyrighted materials.
Get permission directly from each copyright owner as needed.
Purchase annual licenses from CPH that cover virtually all copyrighted materials in LSB. 16

17. Copyright Law CPH Copyright Licenses
Copyright Law CPH Copyright Licenses
CPH offers two licenses:
Liturgy License
Hymn License
These can be purchased in tandem with Lutheran Service Builder, the electronic component of LSB.
Whenever there are questions regarding copyright, call CPH, using the number provided on p. 992 in LSB.
More will be provided later in the presentation regarding the copyright licenses.
This is the end of the unit on copyright law. You may get a lot of questions and startled reactions to this presentation. Try not to get bogged down here, and defer specific questions to the CPH permissions department. 17

18. From the beginning of the work on Lutheran Service Book, the Commission on Worship was committed to providing an electronic version of the hymnal. Its development has gone into areas that we could never have imagined. More than simply an electronic delivery system, Lutheran Service Builder has become a powerful worship planning tool.
The information provided in the following slides will only give a brief picture of the possibilities that the Builder offers. Be sure to point them to additional information on pp. 67–69. There won’t be time in the presentation to talk about things like pricing. To the extent you are able, offer to answer specific questions following the workshop. 18

19. Lutheran Service Builder What is it?
Lutheran Service Builder is an intelligent, powerful, easy-to-use worship assistant.
It offers flexible and intuitive search capabilities with customizable exporting and printing features.
It transforms service planning and bulletin preparation into simple, manageable, and streamlined tasks. 19

20. The Builder offers intuitive and logical options.
After starting the program,
these simple tasks are
offered to the user.
The program can be
easily customized
to fit local needs.
The very first screen asks the user simple and direct questions. 20

21. The Builder will automatically display the day in the
To begin preparing a
service, simply use
the calendar to
click on the date
when the service
will occur.
For congregations
with multiple service
times, one service
can be prepared for
both, or separate
services can be
planned for
each service.
There is much that is intuitive about this screen as well. To begin, you simply click a calendar date or choose to edit a service already planned.
You can select which service times apply to this service. That’s handy if you have weekly communion that switches back and forth between two service times.
There are also special options here if you are planning for a special service, like a wedding or funeral.
The Builder will automatically
display the day in the
Church Year. The title of the
service can be changed
for special occasions. 21

22. The date and day in the Church Year is
continuously displayed on every screen.
An outline of the service
that is chosen appears.
Options at various places
in the service are
selected here.
Adjustments can be made
to the service, such as
inserting a choir anthem
or the rite of Holy Baptism.
This is the screen where you look at the “big picture” of the service. First, you pick the service you will be using from the box in the first column. Once a service is selected, its outline appears in the next column.
In this outline, there are several options that need to be selected. For example, will you do an Introit or Entrance Hymn? A Psalm of the Day or the Gradual? If you need to insert the rite of Baptism, that can be done. Likewise, if the choir will do an anthem at some point in the service, that can be added.
Any of the services
in LSB can be
selected. 22

23. The content screen allows the user to view
the content of each part of the service.
If an optional reading were also
appointed for this Sunday, both
options would be displayed, allowing
the user to make the choice.
Now we come to the details. The service outline is in the first column. The appointed readings for the day are automatically entered. If you highlight one of the readings in the outline column, the text of the reading will show up to the right. If there is a choice of readings for a particular day, you can select which one you wish to use.
The readings appointed for the
day are automatically inserted.
By clicking on any of the readings
in the service outline, the text can
be seen in the adjacent window. 23

24. When a hymn is highlighted, it can be displayed either with
highlighted, a list of
suggested hymns
appears. A hymn can
be selected simply
by dragging and
dropping it onto the
service outline.
When a hymn is highlighted, it
can be displayed either with
text or text and melody.
If a hymn is highlighted in the outline (the first column which is here all covered up!), a list of suggested hymns will appear in the next column. Highlighting any of those hymns will cause them to display in a third column. The user can choose to view just the text or text and melody. Selecting the “info” button causes all of the information about this hymn to display, including not only the three or four Bible passages listed on the page with every hymn in the Pew Edition, but also a number of additional passages that are all tied to specific stanzas in the hymn.
If you want to include only certain stanzas of a hymn, the “change stanzas” button at the bottom of the screen allows you to do this. The Builder knows how to rearrange the graphic file of the hymn so that only the stanzas you select will appear under the melody line.
If desired, only selected
stanzas can be chosen.
The user can also
take advantage of the
powerful search features
in the Builder or simply
browse through all
of the hymns.
Clicking the “play” button
allows the user to listen to
a MIDI file of the melody. 24

25. When the initial planning is completed, a service
can be exported to a file
which other staff
members can use
to review and/or
make changes.
Or, the service can be
exported either to a word
processor as a Rich Text
Format (RTF) file or to
Microsoft® PowerPoint®.
If more than one person will be working with the Builder, they will want to learn how to save the service as a .lsb file (first choice above) and then share that with the other staff member(s).
Somewhere along the way, it would be good to mention that with all of the powerful tools in Lutheran Service Builder it will be incumbent upon service planners to use it responsibly. The chief purpose of the Builder is to provide a modern tool to make the best use of Lutheran Service Book. 25

26. Paper size and bulletin styles can be adjusted. The service can also
be previewed.
A large print version of the
service can be exported
to the word processor,
with all texts of the liturgy
and hymns formatted on
8-1/2” x 11” paper according
to the large-print specifications
of the Library of Congress.
(See sample in the
LSB Guide, pp. 94ff.)
The style features for bulletin formatting are a great feature. If you want to change the font or the size of the headers, you simply make the change once, and the entire service is formatted accordingly.
The large-print feature is one that churches will eventually come to realize as one of the most compelling reasons for getting the Builder. Even if a congregation only prints an outline of the service in the bulletin, with hymn and page numbers, the large-print feature makes it possible to prepare a truly “large” version of the service with basically the click of a button. And the cost of this is extremely reasonable, given the benefits for the sight-impaired. For example, congregations that average between 1 and 200 people in church each week (and that applies to well over half of the Synod), the initial cost of the Builder would be $299. The annual cost for the Builder update ($140) and the hymn license ($75) would only be $215, which averages out to a mere $4 a week, plus the cost of printing copies of the service in sight-saving size! 26

27. Lutheran Service Builder What will it cost?
Pricing is based on two conditions:
a congregation’s average weekly worship attendance
whether or not a congregation has purchased copies of the Pew Edition
For pricing, see the LSB Guide, pp. 67ff.
Don’t let any Q & A on this subject take you too far off topic. The Guide provides very carefully worded information on the pricing. And if they just take a few minutes to study the two pricing scenarios on p. 70, it should all make sense.
In case anyone asks, the average weekly worship attendance is based upon all services of the congregation, not just one service at which the hymnal might be used. 27

28. Lutheran Service Builder Annual Support License
Includes technical support by phone, program upgrades, and periodic enhancements
Internet-delivered video training sessions providing tutorials
CPH Liturgy License, allowing congregations to reproduce any liturgical element in service folders and PowerPoint®
Remember that if a congregation decides not to continue with the annual update, then the export features in the Builder will cease to function, effectively eliminating the ability to prepare bulletins.
You don’t want to get too far off topic regarding copyright issues, but in case the question arises, CPH’s policy regarding permission to reprint liturgical materials will change beginning in From that time forward, permission will be needed to reprint anything from the services in CPH hymnals. As we pointed out during your training events, this includes things like the ever-popular “This Is the Feast.” Without a Liturgy License, congregations will need to obtain permission both for from CPH (for the text) and Richard Hillert (for the music) in order to follow copyright law.
The Liturgy License will also grant congregations permission to reproduce the propers (e.g., Introit, Gradual) in service folders and screen projections. 28

29. LSBHymnLicense.NET What is it?
A more convenient way to handle the majority of your Lutheran Service Book reproduction permissions.
Congregations pay only one annual fee based on average weekly worship attendance.
Lutheran Service Builder records use of all copyrighted hymns and automatically reports to CPH every 30 days.
Again, this particular license will easily pay for itself if a congregation intends to use the Builder to prepare a large-print format of the service. 29

30. LSBHymnLicense.NET What is it?
CPH calculates and distributes royalty payments to all copyright holders.
The license grants congregations unlimited use of copyrighted materials for use in worship.
LSBHymnLicense.NET also covers audio reproduction of copyrighted materials for distribution to members.
CPH has truly set a new standard in the market when it comes to copyright management for a hymnal. The ability of the Builder to do all of the calculating and reporting of copyright usage takes all of the guesswork out of the user’s hands.
The fact that LSBHymnLicense.NET also covers audio recordings that may be shared with members should not be forgotten. This is a limited feature (i.e., it doesn’t cover radio or web broadcasting), but a useful one nonetheless.
Be sure not to get bogged down in these details. More information on licensing can be found in the Guide beginning on p. 65. 30

31. Pricing