http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/ LUTHERAN LITURGY Tue, 07 May 2013 15:35:50 GMT RichLouS@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8843 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8843 Another option might be to join several of the internet organists' yahoogroups. Those lists frequently have members asking about finding books or selling Tue, 07 May 2013 15:12:28 GMT EZacharias http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8842 Yahoo has a "free-cycle" for Lutherans--cool. That would be worth mentioning to others. I offered up our displaced hymnals on our area Craigslist--and had a Tue, 07 May 2013 12:39:35 GMT Rev. David Milette http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8841 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8841 Hi, For what it's worth, here are some suggestions in case you didn't think of these... Try calling CPH and asking them if you could pay them for an authorized Mon, 06 May 2013 19:36:35 GMT Arnold http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8840 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8840 Mark,   Thanks for your suggestions.  I checked them all; unfortunately none of them have the volumes I need.   I do appreciate your reply.   Arnold Mon, 06 May 2013 12:21:47 GMT Mark Bliese http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8839 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8839 Arnold, You could also check alibris.com or abebooks.com to see if they have volumes for sale. A catch-all to search many used book dealers at once is Sun, 05 May 2013 20:01:34 GMT A. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8838 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8838 Last September I took the position of organist at our church. I was excited to learn that the previous organist had purchased us a copy of the Concordia Hymn Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:15:38 GMT Thomas Hoyt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8837 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8837 Hey -- I might have been here before but not recently. I subscribe to the Book of Concord over there on my bookshelf. Both published by the Henkel press in Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:12:01 GMT Christian von Beneckendorf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8836 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8836 Thanks, Kay! I don't know a great deal about Calvin, but I do recall having heard that he was insistent upon what he called "decency and order in all things in Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:11:37 GMT Kay Maiwald http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8835 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8835 Sent from my iPhone ... Fair enough! I have learned that this cannot at all be assumed so it pays to get it out there. ... I guess, if you are trying to Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:58:02 GMT James Wetzstein http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8834 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8834 I think you're organist knows what he's talking about, Presbyterian or not. :-) Jim ... +++++ James Wetzstein University Pastor james.wetzstein@... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:56:18 GMT Christian von Beneckendorf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8833 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8833  Thanks for your comment , Kay. I should say, however, that my question assumed the very context you mention, i.e., hymns that are Christocentric, appropriate Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:30:04 GMT Kay Maiwald http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8832 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8832 The only purpose of music in the Church is to carry the Word, so first of all hymns should be chosen for their Christocentric content and how they coincide Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:29:21 GMT Christian von Beneckendorf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8831 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8831 As an ELCA layman, I always enjoy coming here when I have a liturgical question! So, here goes... On some festival Sundays, our choir processes down the center Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:45:46 GMT Rev. David Milette http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8825 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8825 Alleluia! Christ is risen! Hi, Our little congregation is running low on cash (understatement), and one thing that just got axed is the LSB CPH Scripture Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:53:21 GMT Christian von Beneckendorf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8824 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lutheran_Liturgy/message/8824   I hope I'm not presumptuous here in attempting to answer my own question about the Exhortation in the liturgy. I found it in a side-by-side comparason of