Bob again… this time on Healthy Tensions…

More from Bob… Today: The Task…

By the grace of God, I can call Bob Kauflin, my friend. I’ve known Bob (his wife Julie, and their family) since Clare and I were at Pastor’s College those many years ago; and Peter and June have known them even longer! We’ve enjoyed time in their home, experiencing their warm hospitality. We’ve worshipped God under Bob’s skillful leadership. We experienced the rich grace of God through Bob’s prophetic gift.

Bob is an incredibly gifted worship leader, teacher and pastor who serves as the Worship Development Director for Sovereign Grace. He blogs here at Worship Matters, which is a rich resource for all who love to worship God, not just those involved in playing/singing on Sunday mornings.

Now YOU can benefit from Bob’s exceptional wisdom, insight and gift, as it has been put into print! Bob’s book, by the same title: Worship Matters is now available.

I’m working my way through it currently and SO enjoying and benefitting from it! I highly recommended it to all, not just those in the band! We should have some available soon.

To go along with the publication of this book, Bob has produced a series of short videos on worship. Here’s the first of the four that we will post on the blog…

The Leader…

As Christians, we know that our greatest problem—separation from God—has been solved. Jesus Christ, the only Savior, has taken our sin upon himself, enduring God’s wrath in our place and rising from the dead to assure us of our forgiveness.

But all our problems don’t end when we turn to Christ. We still get sick. Marriages end. Children die. Our plans, great or small, are disrupted. We grow weary in the battle.

Scripture assures us that God is sovereignly using our difficulties as tools to make us more like his Son. “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (Ro 5:3–5) While we know these things are true, in the midst of our hardships we can lose perspective. Problems can loom large, and our hopes can grow dim.

Come Weary Saints is an invitation to redirect your focus to the God whose love has been forever demonstrated at the cross of Calvary. As you listen to these songs, may your faith and joy in the Savior be strengthened for the challenges you face, now or in the future.

Sovereign Grace Music have just released this new album, Come Weary Saints. It is playing in our house/car/iPod all the time. So full of grace and truth. So encouraging.

We should have some stock for our resources table very soon, but for now pop over to the Sovereign Grace Music website where you can listen to snippets from all the tracks, download a FREE song and get the chord/lead sheets for all the songs.

While you are there, why not snoop around for soon-to-be-released projects!