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Winners of the Love Divine Album

By Bob Kauflin on July 8, 2011 in —Album Giveaways

Thanks to everyone who left a comment on my last post, making you eligible to receive one of the five copies of Love Divine: The Songs of Charles Wesley for Today’s Generation.. The random number generator (guided by God’s hand, of course) picked the following names. I also included who they listed as one of their favorite hymnwriters: Jeff Uriarte (Isaac Watts) Mike (Fanny Crosby) Brian (Martin Luther) Michael G. (Fanny Crosby & Isaac Watts) Jeff Scott (Horatio Spafford) You’ll be contacted by email to get your mailing address. And here’s one of my favorite lyrics from this album, written of course, by Charles Wesley: Jesus, …

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Love Divine – The Hymns of Charles Wesley, Updated (and win a free copy)

By Bob Kauflin on July 5, 2011 in —Free Sheet Music, —Hymns, —Music Reviews, —Song Downloads, —Songwriting

I think it was about 6 weeks ago that I received a copy of the CD, “Love Divine:The Songs of Charles Wesley for Today’s Generation,” which came out April 19. It’s a collection of Charles Wesley (1707-1788) hymns that have been set to music by John Hartley and Chris Eaton. There are a lot of hymns albums being made these days. In fact, I’m working on a post now that highlights some of the ministries and individuals who are participating in rearranging, rewriting, or composing hymns. Very exciting to see more people realizing that the songs we use for praising God can’t be restricted to ones that are driven more by melody and beat than lyrical …

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Helping People Glory in Christ at Christmas

By Bob Kauflin on December 23, 2008 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 to God free mp3 download (from the Savior CD) Emmanuel, Emmanuel (from the Savior CD) What Child is This? Before the Throne of God Above We started with Hark! the Herald Angels sing because it’s one of the most theologically rich Christmas carols we sing. After that, I shared that there are many things to love …