Evangelical Lutheran Worship has a cranberry cover and graphic cross logo.

Morning Prayer (Matins), Evening Prayer (Vespers), and Night Prayer (Compline) are all included, as are occasional and pastoral offices such as baptism, marriage, burial, individual and corporate confession, and proper services for Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, and the Triduum of Easter, Martin Luther's Small Catechism is also printed in the book.

A Prayer of the Day (Collect) is included for each Sunday of the three-year cycle of the new Common Lectionary.

Compared to the LBW, the selection of hymns is expanded, including many options from many of Evangelical Lutheran worship/liturgical service books, hymnals and hymnal supplements published in America in the last two centuries.

It has two musical settings of the Holy Communion, a Service of the Word (similar to LBW and WOV), and new hymns and songs.