Worship Matters

Resources for Leading Worship from Bob Kauflin

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In my eleven years as director of worship development for Sovereign Grace Ministries, I’ve reviewed hundreds of worship songs and written a few of my own. Not all of them have been stellar. Actually, very few of them have been. I’ve noticed recurring tendencies that keep weak songs from becoming good or great songs. I’m [...]

Over at the Sovereign Grace website, we’ve finally posted 29 WorshipGod08 seminars for you to listen to or download for free.
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Here’s the list:

Band on the Run (Bob Kauflin)
Building Bridges: Pastors and Worship Leaders (Bob Kauflin)
Caring for Your Sound System (Darryl Wenger)
Copyright Law and Church Music: The Eight Keys (Paul Herman)
Drumming for Worshipers (Jordan Kauflin)
Electric Guitar [...]

06 Feb, 2008

The Joy of Developing Song Writers

Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Songwriting

For the past few years, we’ve been trying to encourage and develop the songwriters in Sovereign Grace churches. This past week we spent three days with thirteen song writers working on songs for an upcoming Psalms project, to be released at the WorshipGod08 conference. It was one of the most encouraging annual retreats we’ve had.
Songwriters [...]

29 Jan, 2008

New Song — Jesus Died for Me

Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Choosing Songs

Glorify is a live recording from Metro Life Church, one of the Sovereign Grace churches in Orlando, FL. I posted on it briefly a while back. The CD has a number of great songs, but I wanted to focus on one we taught our church this past Sunday, Jesus Died for Me. The original lyrics [...]

A few Sundays ago, I led worship at my home church. One of the songs we sang was Before the Throne of God Above. I’m posting an audio of what we did because I wanted to make a number of points with it. Feel free to listen as you read.

1. Introducing You to the Song: [...]


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