23 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Choosing Songs| —Christmas| —Song Downloads| —Spontaneous Song
This past Sunday I had the privilege of leading the singing at my home church. At Christmas time there’s sometimes a tension between choosing to sing songs that are “comfortably Christmasy” or songs that help people glory in the miracle of God becoming man. So here’s what we went with:
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Glory be [...]
19 Nov, 2008
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Other Events| —Spiritual Gifts| —Spontaneous Song| —Worship and the Pastor| —Worship and the Spirit
While at the Christian Musician Summit this past weekend I taught a workshop on Encouraging Spontaneity in Your Church. We had about 200 folks crammed into a room that held about 150, so it was, shall we say, a cozy setting.
At one point, I led the group in singing spontaneous responses to different sections of [...]
16 Oct, 2008
Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Funerals| —Spiritual Gifts| —Spontaneous Song| —WorshipGod Conferences
Jon Payne is a worship pastor at the Sovereign Grace church in Gilbert, AZ. On the last morning of the WorshipGod08 conference he did a great job leading us in corporate worship. One of the songs he led was Glorious and Mighty, which I posted on here.
While preparing, Jon sensed that God wanted to minister [...]
On Sunday night and Monday morning at the New Attitude conference we added 17 string players to the band. Pretty amazing. None of it would have been possible apart from the gifts and labors of Judah Groveman, a cellist/guitarist/songwriter in our church who spent many hours arranging the parts. He did a brilliant job.
They string [...]
The past two days I’ve posted videos from a recent Sunday morning at Covenant Life. The first one is here, the second one is here. These aren’t examples of someone doing everything right. Hardly. They just contain examples of a lot of the things I’ve written about at Worship Matters.
Today I’m posting an example of [...]