The newest ELCA hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) is also red in color, and has apparently been dubbed "the cranberry book".

[citation needed] Prior to the merger of 1987 which created the ELCA, there were several smaller Lutheran church bodies.

Service Book and Hymnal contains 602 hymns, the first 148 of them organized to correspond with the Church Year.

Three settings of The Service were available whereas only the first two (p. 15 & p. 41) were included in the pew editions of the hymnal.

The cover of SBH features a gold cross on a circle logo symbolizing Christ in the world.