Susan's Pendulum

Sixteen hymns in our new hymnal by Timothy Dudley-Smith, several mentioning God's sovereignty .  Overall there's not really anything...

Munchkin has learned his phonics. B is for bear; buh, buh, buh. F is for fox; fph, fph, fph. He looks at the sentence: The dog ran after ...

Our hymn of the week is "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing." I've been missing terribly the stanza left out of LSB, verse 5 in TLH:...

Subtitled: Why We Should Not Change the Words in the Hymnal and Agenda Also subtitled: Another Plus for the Historic One-Year Series When hi...

When Lutheran Service Book was put together, there were two sections of TLH that were nearly entirely left out of the new hymnal. One was ...

In the midst of difficulties and anfechtung, it would be a whole lot easier to endure if they hadn't changed the pericopes, if they hadn...

The new hymnal has changed some references that were in TLH. " Remission of sins" is a phrase that we are no longer very fond of...

At our church, the Christmas Eve service is full of carols and has a few of the good, solid, sturdy, Lutheran hymns mixed in. Christmas Day...

There were two house blessings on Thursday. Pastor forgot to make handouts for us to follow along. So theoretically we weren't suppose...

Much of "Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing" is about avoiding temptation or overcoming temptation by meditation upon His cross an...

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. As I've continued to struggle with the changes to the hymns I've memorized, ...

How ingrained is that old hymnal, in ways that I don't even realize? In LSB, some of the hymns have five stanzas in the music score. Wh...

The women are mad. Changes are being made to my beloved grocery store . They expanded the produce section, moved some aisles, did a little ...

Had a hard time at church today, and I'm finding my joy and comfort in vegging at the computer. Not good. But, hey, it's what I...

Thursday morning I walked into the Bible class room and saw a little book in Pastor's hands and exclaimed, "THAT is what I want to ...

A lot of ideas have been introduced with LSB as to how to teach congregations new hymns and new liturgies. The choir can sing new hymns as ...

There was one thing last week at the Gerhardt symposium that made a bigger impression on me than anything else. Two presenters mentioned the...