Convention-Watching Essentials
I was thinking yesterday that is an incredible blessing to be able to sit at my desk in Saint Louis and watch The LCMS Convention. I must confess I’ve been a tad grumpy about the audio problems and the poor quality of the video stream and the fact that there are not helpful prompts on the screen, like, the constant display of the resolution number under consideration, poor lighting in the hall, blah, blah, whine, whine, etc. But then I realized, “That’s stupid. Sure, they need to make improvements, but what an amazing blessing it is to have the technology that allows members of the Synod to watch the convention.” It makes you feel like you are there. I thought I’d show you my “convention configuration” on my desk. All the essentials for making sense of a convention:
Bible
Lutheran Confessions
Convention Workbook
Today’s Business, No. 1
Nomination biographies
Copies of each day’s “Today’s Business”
The LCMS Handbook
The Lutheran Annual (contains lists of all boards, commissions, etc.)
Oh, yea, a picture of a good looking girl is also helpful.
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That must be the “pocket edition” of Concordia. Glad you pictured it on top of TLSB, gives me an idea of the size. I have the full-size version of Concordia but have considered getting the pocket edition for “travels” and such.
And I need to clean my desk…
Yup, that’s the pocket edition.
Yeah, I thought it was amazing to have the video stream.
Informative layout of materials to use for the convention proceedings. I have some of your materials:
Green Concordia Triglotta
Larger Print ed. of The Lutheran Study Bible
Pocket edition of Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions (also have regular size)
German Bible (mine is Luther’s German/English translations in one volume)
My copy of the green-bound Concordia Triglotta is a 1988 reprint (by permission of the original publisher, Concordia Publishing House) by Northwestern Publishing House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (which town I visited a month ago). I can’t remember where I ordered it nor when exactly it came (sometime in the 1990s) in the mail, but I’m ashamed to say it sat on the shelf most of the time. It’s no longer in paper print, but is available in electronic format. Does Concordia include this big volume in its books on demand program?
Northwestern Publishing House has the Concordia Triglotta on disk which is driven by the Libronix Digital Library System (LDLS) search engine from Logos Bible Software for $49.99.
http://online.nph.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?10418&productID=350205
Checked Concordia on Demand at http://www.cph.org and the Triglotta is not listed.
Amazon interestingly has the Triglotta in Kindle format for only 99 cents.
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Concord-Concordia-Triglotta-ebook/dp/B0036RTY92/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279419979&sr=1-2
The Concordia Triglotta still survives in some form.