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Bob Kauflin

Bob Kauflin is director of Sovereign Grace Music. He equips pastors and musicians in the theology and practice of congregational worship and serves as a pastor at Sovereign Grace Church in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God. Bob and his wife, Julie, have six children and a growing number of grandchildren.

What Should We Sing? How to Identify a Good Worship Song

What Should We Sing?

How to Identify a Good Worship Song

A good congregational song is one that people can sing, want to sing, and should sing. But how can we discern the songs we really should sing together?

The Physicality of Faithful Worship: Why We Bend Knees and Lift Hands

The Physicality of Faithful Worship

Why We Bend Knees and Lift Hands

True worship happens, first and foremost, in the heart, but the Bible won’t let it stay there. What we do with our hands, knees, and bodies really matters.

Attention, Affection, Authority: Primer for Parenting Young Children

Attention, Affection, Authority

Primer for Parenting Young Children

“Do not provoke your children,” the apostle Paul warns fathers. Instead, show them focused attention, manifest affection, and calm authority.

Worship Isn’t About You: What I Learned After Years of Leading

Worship Isn’t About You

What I Learned After Years of Leading

Many of us hear “worship” and think of singing together in church, but worship is far bigger and more pervasive than songs on Sunday morning.

Come, Holy Spirit: Seven Ways He Meets Us as We Gather

Come, Holy Spirit

Seven Ways He Meets Us as We Gather

When churches pray, “Come, Holy Spirit,” we can expect him to meet us in at least seven glorious ways.

The Soundtrack of Heaven: Learning from the Songs of Revelation

The Soundtrack of Heaven

Learning from the Songs of Revelation

As we sing in corporate worship week after week, we would do well to compare the songs we love with the ones God says we’ll sing forever.

Worshiping the Infinite and Intimate God

Worshiping the Infinite and Intimate God

How might our churches be different if we consistently embraced both the awesome bigness and the intimate nearness of God?

Learning to Wait Well

Learning to Wait Well

If you want to learn to wait well, immerse yourself in Psalm 40, a powerful and overlooked guide for enduring pain and heartache.

God Made Us to Gather: The Fresh Wonder of Corporate Worship

God Made Us to Gather

The Fresh Wonder of Corporate Worship

One day we’ll gather again. And when we do, many of us will feel the wonder of corporate worship in a way we never have before.

The Most Important Instrument on Sunday Morning

The Most Important Instrument on Sunday Morning

The most important instrument this Sunday is not the familiar piano, the expensive guitar, or the booming drum set. It’s the voice of the people.

Good Music Can Become Your God: Five Reasons Jesus Is Better

Good Music Can Become Your God

Five Reasons Jesus Is Better

God made music to move us deeply. Music is great. And Jesus is better. Longtime musician and pastor Bob Kauflin gives us five reasons why.

The Year My World Fell Apart: My War with Spiritual Depression

The Year My World Fell Apart

My War with Spiritual Depression

Often our problem in the darkest nights of life is not that we have no hope, but that we keep putting our hope in ourselves, rather than in God.

He Held the Stars in Place

He Held the Stars in Place

The infinite became an infant. His mother held him, while he held the moon and stars in place.

How Not to Worship Your Worship

How Not to Worship Your Worship

When our worship is preoccupied with what we think and feel about God, and not on who he is, we run the risk of worshiping our worship.

When Is My Child Mature Enough to Leave Home?

When Is My Child Mature Enough to Leave Home?

When is your child mature enough to leave home? When they pursue self-disclosure, welcome correction, and seek input.

Worship Is My Life, Not My Role

Worship Is My Life, Not My Role

Leading worship starts and ends with my daily life. God means for my worship on Sunday morning to be an extension of my worship throughout the week.

Can We Sing Too Much About the Cross?

Can We Sing Too Much About the Cross?

The blazing center of our praise will always be the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus. But cross-centered worship can go wrong. Here are four ways.

Idolatry in Corporate Worship

Idolatry in Corporate Worship

The greatest obstacles to our worship on Sunday morning don’t come from subpar music or uninspiring preaching, but our unrealistic expectations.

The Three R’s: Why Christians Sing

Christians sing together during corporate worship gatherings. Colossians 3:16-17 helps us understand why. Paul tells us that worshiping God together in song is meant to deepen the relationships we enjoy through the gospel. This happens in three ways (or three…

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