Lutheran Service Book (
LSB) is the newest official
hymnal of the
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the
Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC). It was prepared by the LCMS Commission on Worship and published by
Concordia Publishing House, the official publisher of the LCMS. It is the fourth official English-language hymnal of the LCMS published since the synod began transitioning from German to English in the early 1900s.
LSB is intended to succeed both
The Lutheran Hymnal (
TLH) and
Lutheran Worship (
LW) as the common hymnal of the LCMS. Supplemental and companion editions to the hymnal were released throughout the end of 2006 and into 2007. The hymnal was officially approved by the LCMS at the 2004 LCMS National Convention in
St. Louis. It was officially released on September 1, 2006, but many customers who pre-ordered the hymnal received their copies several weeks earlier.