Sources for Lutheran books.

The LCMS and WELS content issues are more specifically with each denomination's publishing house (Concordia and Northwestern respectively). Like all other publishers, they have their own individual agreements with Faithlife/Logos. And like some of those other publishers, they are less cooperative with Logos' bundling and discounting practices. Short of a successful renegotiation of those agreements, nothing can or will change.

MJ is correct that "Logos does have a significant amount of material from the even more conservative WELS."  Moreover, Northwestern Publishing House (NPH) has a few excellent collections at a great discount:

• The Northwestern Publishing House Electronic Library: Collection One (100 vols.) includes several useful resources.  List price of its printed resources is $2,115.59, but its Logos price is only $524.99.
  
  
• The Peoples Bible: Complete Set, which is included in the Collection One set (above), includes 42 volumes that span every book of the OT and NT.  It is an excellent commentary for laypeople and pastors alike.  Its Logos price is only $219.99.
  
  
• For small group Bible studies, check out NPH's Whole Bible Project Complete Set.  It is not available on Logos (yet?), but its material (in PDF and RTF format) complements The Peoples Bible commentary, can be copied for small group studies and has excellent questions & answers for 30- to 60-minutes of discussion (such a page usually covers about one chapter).  It is the best material that I have seen for small group Bible studies.
  http://online.nph.net/t-servingyou_biblestudies_wholebible.aspx

Could we please be done complaining about my church body now? As has been pointed out, this really isn't the place.

James, it's a shame you're not open to the resources from Augsburg and Fortress Press, since they are not as monolithic as you imagine them. There's some really great stuff there. You've got Bonhoeffer, Wright, Brueggemann, Wengert, Forde, and a whole bunch of other gems.

James Myers said:

...Logos includes several ELCA resources in their Lutheran base package, and I am trying to decide whether or not to upgrade to the Logos 7 Lutheran base package.  It has several ELCA resources included in it and I do not particularly want ELCA resources in my library...

James, you are not alone in the search for an appropriate base library.  Many LCMS, WELS and ELS members love their synod’s theology and the material that their synods produce and they want to see more of that material in Logos’ libraries.  Fortunately, you do have several options.  For example:

• You could stay with Logos 6 and wait a few months (February 2017?) for the Logos 7 engine (without additional feature sets) to become available for $0.
   
• You could simply purchase the books that you want now instead of purchasing a base package.  To do that, you should examine the collections that include those books, because you might find a collection that includes other desired books at a very substantial discount.  I already mentioned the Northwestern Publishing House Electronic Library: Collection One (100 vols.) that is available on Logos for only $524.99.
  
  
• You could purchase the Logos 7 Full Feature Set separately, although for only a few dollars more (depending upon your current resources) you could purchase the Standard’s Bronze Library + Logos 7 Full Feature Set, which might give you many valuable resources.
  
  
• You could become a Logos Now member for $99.99/year ($89.99 for the first year), which (among many other things), would give you a 25% discount on the Logos 7 Full Feature Set and a 10% discount on Logos 7 libraries.  Personally, I have not made that jump.

By the way, if you are not using Logos’ "collections", I encourage you to learn how to create collections of your favorite books.  For example, if you created an “LCMS” collection that included all of your LCMS books, you could easily limit a search to just those books.  You could even create a second, broader collection (perhaps “Lutheran”) that included your LCMS books and your WELS books.  Collections are very flexible.  Here are a couple short videos to help you get started. 

Collections Overview
https://www.logos.com/training/logos6/quick-collections

Creating a Collection
https://www.logos.com/training/logos6/Collections

David McCulloch said:

James, you are not alone in the search for an appropriate base library.  Many LCMS, WELS and ELS members love their synod’s theology and the material that their synods produce and they want to see more of that material in Logos’ libraries.  Fortunately, you do have several options.  For example:

• You could stay with Logos 6 and wait a few months (February 2017?) for the Logos 7 engine (without additional feature sets) to become available for $0.
   
• You could simply purchase the books that you want now instead of purchasing a base package.  To do that, you should examine the collections that include those books, because you might find a collection that includes other desired books at a very substantial discount.  I already mentioned the Northwestern Publishing House Electronic Library: Collection One (100 vols.) that is available on Logos for only $524.99.
  
  
• You could purchase the Logos 7 Full Feature Set separately, although for only a few dollars more (depending upon your current resources) you could purchase the Standard’s Bronze Library + Logos 7 Full Feature Set, which might give you many valuable resources.
  
  
• You could become a Logos Now member for $99.99/year ($89.99 for the first year), which (among many other things), would give you a 25% discount on the Logos 7 Full Feature Set and a 10% discount on Logos 7 libraries.  Personally, I have not made that jump.

By the way, if you are not using Logos’ "collections", I encourage you to learn how to create collections of your favorite books.  For example, if you created an “LCMS” collection that included all of your LCMS books, you could easily limit a search to just those books.  You could even create a second, broader collection (perhaps “Lutheran”) that included your LCMS books and your WELS books.  Collections are very flexible.  Here are a couple short videos to help you get started. 

Collections Overview
https://www.logos.com/training/logos6/quick-collections

Creating a Collection
https://www.logos.com/training/logos6/Collections

I would add CPH's Concordia Electronic Theological Library for $475.99 to the above suggestions. And the Concordia Commentary, for $1049.99, is a solidly confessional Lutheran and generally academically rigorous commentary set, comparable in the latter criteria to any similarly-priced commentary set.

If you want to go deeper, search the Logos store for "Concordia Publishing House", "Northwestern Publishing House", and "Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod". There's other good content available there, just not in base packages or generically-mixed-publisher bundles.

James Myers said:

...I do not particularly want ELCA resources in my library...

James,

If you purchase a package with a few resources that you never want to reference, you could "hide" them, which essentially removes them from your Logos library (if you ever want them back, you could unhide them).  Hiding resources from Logos' Library window would allow you to sort your library by publisher (e.g., Fortress Press), making the job rather quick and easy.  For more information, here is the link:

https://www.logos.com/training/logos5/hide-resources

That said, some excellent material that is used by more conservative synods such as the WELS is in Logos with a Publisher of Fortress Press.  One example is R. C. H. Lenski's "Commentary on the New Testament" series (LCNT).  Keep in mind that the ELCA did not even exist when some Fortress Press books were authored.

By the way, Michael mentioned Professor Brug's Old and New Testament Commentary evaluations.  They are excellent resources that rate commentaries from many sources.  Professor Brug, who is very gifted and recently retired from the WELS seminary (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary), assembled those commentary evaluations while he was still at the seminary.  The lists are used by pastors, seminary students and laymen alike.  Many or most of their commentaries (such as Lenski's series) are already in Logos.