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Input (English): Context: Concordia Publishing House (CPH), founded in 1869, is the official publishing arm of the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod. Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri at 3558 S. Jefferson, CPH publishes the Synod's official magazine, "The Lutheran Witness" and the Synod's hymnals, including "The Lutheran Hymnal" (1941), "Lutheran Worship" (1982), and "Lutheran Service Book" (2006). It has published a comprehensive edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Orgelbüchlein," complete with short analyses of each chorale. It publishes a wide range of resources for churches, schools, and homes and is the publisher of the world's most widely circulated daily devotional resource, "Portals of Prayer". Their children's books, known as Arch Books, have been published in millions of copies. Over 850,000 copies of this resource are printed and distributed quarterly. Concordia Publishing House is the oldest publishing company west of the Mississippi River and the world's largest distinctly Lutheran publishing house., Lutheran Service Book (LSB) is the newest official hymnal of the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod (LCMS) and the Lutheran ChurchCanada (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., The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent. Flowing entirely in the United States (although its drainage basin reaches into Canada), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 31 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana., The Lutheran Hymnal (TLH) is one of the official hymnals of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Published in 1941 by Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, Missouri, it was the LCMS' second official English-language hymnal, succeeding the 1912 "Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book". Development of "TLH" began in 1929 as a collaborative effort of the churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America and became the common hymnal for both the LCMS and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). Containing 668 chorales, hymns, carols, and chants, plus the liturgy for the Common Service, Matins, Vespers, the propers, collects and prayers, the suffrages, canticles, psalms, and miscellaneous tables, "TLH" became an extremely popular and beloved worship resource in the Lutheran church in North America, and attempts to succeed it in more recent years have often met with strong resistance., Portals of Prayer is a quarterly publication of the Concordia Publishing House of St. Louis , Missouri , the denominational publisher for the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod , with a printed circulation of almost 900,000 copies each quarter . The 4 1  8 by 6 1  2 inches ( 100 mm × 170 mm ) publication consists of one - page daily devotions based upon a verse of Scripture along with suggestions for further reading of a Scripture and of a Psalm . Each devotion closes with a brief prayer . A separate section features prayers for the days of the week and occasional prayers covering liturgical and civic calendar events as well as for various situations . Each issue has a short prayer order that can be used by individuals , families , and small groups . Luther 's Morning and Evening prayers , and prayers for meal - times are also included . ., The Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod (LCMS), often referred to simply as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 2.1 million members, it is both the eighth-largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S., the largest being Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The LCMS was organized in 1847 at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, as the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, a name which reflected the geographic locations of the founding congregations. The LCMS is headquartered in Kirkwood, Missouri., The Orgelbüchlein ("Little Organ Book") BWV 599644 is a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach. All but three of them were composed during the period 17081717, while Bach was court organist at the ducal court in Weimar. The remaining three, along with a short two-bar fragment, were added in 1726 or later, after Bach's appointment as cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig., Subject: portals of prayer, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) 1 (B) bar (C) book (D) chorale (E) church (F) collection (G) continent (H) drainage basin (I) ducal (J) hymn (K) magazine (L) meal (M) meeting (N) official (O) order (P) organ (Q) page (R) period (S) prayer (T) psalm (U) publication (V) publishing (W) resource (X) river (Y) service (Z) synod ([) three (\) two
Output (English): magazine