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Each month ELCA Worship highlights resources from Augsburg Fortress Publishers that support worship leaders, worship planners, musicians, and all who care about the worship of the church. ELCA Worship also features resources from other partners in a monthly blog post.
That Divine and Most Excellent Gift: Martin Luther, Music, and the Arts
This posthumous compilation of writing by beloved scholar, teacher, and musician Mark P. Bangert explores how, in addition to his other contributions, Martin Luther expressed a theological valuation of music that can inspire and inform today’s understanding and use of music, especially in Christian worship. Luther’s preface to Symphoniae iucundae (“Delightful Symphonies,” 1538) presents the clearest explication of this theology. At the time of his death, Bangert had composed core components of a book on Luther’s preface. Drawing on this work and other writings by Bangert on Luther and music, Martin Seltz has edited a collection that pays tribute both to Luther’s theology and to Bangert’s important body of scholarship.
All Creation Sings Leaders Edition
The sturdy leaders edition includes everything needed for the worship leader to conduct the services. A section of Notes on the Services offers information and guidance to enhance leadership of the liturgies. Full rubrics and proper prefaces are included for the communion services. Expanded indexes facilitate worship planning. Enlarged print makes for ease of reading.
A Living Faith: Piano Settings
This second piano collection by John Helgen provides settings of seven familiar tunes that are compelling and exciting as well as useful for worship and easily learned. Included are a delightful and spirited setting of “Angels We Have Heard on High” and an engaging and quiet setting of “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.”
Sundays and Seasons for Times of Crisis
In times of crisis, we search for words and rituals to ground us. Pastors and other worship leaders are often stretched in too many directions; moments for creativity can be hard to come by. In these times, we can turn to words and liturgies carefully crafted for such moments as these. Sundays and Seasons subscribers have access not only to resources published in current and past Sundays and Seasons volumes but also to numerous prayers and services in All Creation Sings, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, and This Far by Faith, just to name a few. Hymns and songs are available from over twenty-five song collections!