The WELS Hymnal Project is pleased to provide several new preview resources as part of the introduction of Christian Worship to WELS. The following items have been added to the existing materials available on the Resources page of the Christian Worship website. For your convenience, you may also access these new resources by clicking or tapping the links below.

1. Christian Worship: Hymn Preview offers a look at more than 50 of the new and updated hymns included in Christian Worship: Hymnal.

2. A Liturgical Philosophy for Christian Worship is a written documentation of the general approach to liturgical rites that guided decision-making about the rites included in Christian Worship.

3. For Us and for Our Salvation is a summary of the translation of the Nicene Creed in Christian Worship.

4. There Is Room in the Choir covers the hymn selection criteria used to prepare a hymns list that is both comprehensive in scope and Christ-centered in content.

5. The Tentative Hymn List is a complete documentation of the hymns planned for inclusion in Christian Worship: Hymnal. Three formats of the same document are available, PDF, RTF, and XLSX.

6. The Cut and Retuned Hymn List is a complete documentation of the hymns from the 1993 Christian Worship and from the 2008 Christian Worship: Supplement that have been cut or set to a different tune.

7. NPH is providing a preview package for use in congregations during the 2021 lenten season.

This article by Prof. Aaron Christie, published in Worship the Lord, provides an overview of how the WELS Hymnal Project worked to provide a list of hymns that is comprehensive in scope and Christ-centered in content. Use the button below to download the resource as a PDF.