29 Mar, 2012
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Sovereign Grace Music|—Worship and Christ|Videos
On April 10 we’ll be releasing our next album, From Age to Age, a collection of 14 new hymns for the church. We call them “hymns” because either they were based on or inspired by hymns of the past, or because the lyrics adhere to a metrical pattern in the verses. The songs also contain [...]
22 Mar, 2012
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Music Reviews|—Worship and the Church
The worship song outpouring in the last two decades has resulted in thousands of new songs for the church to sing. Many have been expressions of praise, thanksgiving, love, and commitment to God. Others intentionally seek to help us engage directly with God’s Word to us. That’s one of the purposes of music Paul refers [...]
15 Mar, 2012
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Emotions and Worship|—Leading a Congregation
Specifically, I haven’t learned anything from Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) about leading congregational worship that I didn’t learn first in Scripture. But in his day, Aristotle sought to help speakers be more persuasive by identifying three crucial areas to keep in mind. He called them logos, ethos, and pathos. Briefly, logos is seeking to [...]