Supporting Volumes: How to Worship With Your Hymnal
The WELS Hymnal Project has established an ambitious goal of declaring the grace of God to a generation yet unborn. The project has identified a number of valuable tools to reach that goal. Among those...
View ArticleDevotions for Worship and Life
You see them so often that you might not even notice that they’re there: the well-worn hymnals neatly racked beneath or behind each pew. For many people, those hymnals that we use each weekend are part...
View ArticleAn Update from the Musicians Resource Group
With what variety and freedom the Lord has blessed his Church! The Musicians’ Resource Group (MRG) of the WELS Hymnal Project has been tasked with making that variety readily accessible to the...
View ArticleA Palm Sunday Devotion on Psalm 24
Christians all over the world are praising their Lord on this Palm Sunday with words from Psalm 24:“Lift up your heads, O you gates; Be lifted up, you ancient doors, That the King of Glory may come in”...
View ArticleA Holy Thursday Devotion
Can something be beautiful and ominous at the same time?Think of billowing storm clouds. The sun glints brilliantly off their contours and edges. Their majestic beauty can be breathtaking.Unless you’re...
View ArticleGood Friday - Son of God, by God Forsaken
Until you’re faced with the cold, chilling reality that your days are actually numbered, you might not notice it so much. But ask the hiker stranded for four days in sub-zero temperatures, ask the...
View ArticleEternal Easter Sunshine
One value in repeated use of familiar worship material is that certain phrases become embedded in one’s memory. One of my favorites: “Better than life is your love” (Morning Devotion, CW page 152;...
View ArticleAn Update from the Psalm Committee
It’s the home stretch. It’s really exciting.We have chosen all of the Psalm settings for the hymnal. We have chosen all of the alternate settings for those Psalms as well. Congregations that like the...
View ArticleSearching for Modern Music for the Hymnal
As the hymns committee began its search for the 200 or so new hymns that will be included in the next hymnal, that search included scouring dozens of published hymnals from all corners of...
View ArticleAn Update from the Project Director - Summer 2019
Introduction There is a noticeable shift taking place these days. Things are definitely moving from research and development of content to production of content. In plain language, this means that what...
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