About LSB

Although there are things in TLH that are wonderful and will hopefully continue to be used, that doesn't mean LSB is inferior to TLH. Not by a long shot! I posted on one of the comment pages a list of great hymns that are available in LSB that aren't in TLH. And that was just a quickie-list I threw together prior to the 2004 convention. Since that time, I've found more treasures in the hymn section.

The Agenda for LSB is absolutely incredible. It's significantly superior to the previous agendas.

I don't mean to imply by yesterday's posts that there are serious deficiences in LSB. Yes, the list may be long of what's been left out of LSB, but that doesn't mean all of those (or even most of those) should've been included in the new hymnal. Christopher mentioned a week or so ago that he'd like to see "an overall factual review of LSB hymnody stating the major alterations (which hymns were eliminated, added, which hymns were partially eliminated)." I was doing that for myself anyway, so I just went ahead and posted the list here. For my purposes, I would've just listed the changes that I thought were important, and not bothered mentioning the changes I agreed with. But I didn't think it would hurt anything to provide the factual and unemotional list for people who might want to see it.

That said, I wouldn't want to discourage people from getting LSB. It's a good book. I think it's better than TLH. But like Pastor Petersen had said repeatedly, it's not as much better as I'd hoped it would be. And there are a couple of areas that I dearly hope will be remedied "next time." But the fact that it's not the perfect hymnal does not undo the fact that LSB is a very good hymnal.