After receiving a piano performance degree from Temple University in 1976, Bob traveled for eight years with the contemporary Christian group GLAD as a songwriter, speaker, and arranger. He was a major contributor to The Acapella Project.

In 1984, he left the group to pursue active involvement in a local church associated with Sovereign Grace Ministries. In 1991, he helped to plant what is now CrossWay Community Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and also led worship on the Integrity Hosanna! CD Chosen Treasure. Six years later, after twelve years of pastoring, he moved to Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to serve as director of worship development for Sovereign Grace.

He currently equips pastors and musicians in the theology and practice of congregational worship, and contributes to Sovereign Grace recordings, including Upward: The Bob Kauflin Hymns Project, Worship God Live, Valley of Vision, and most recently, Psalms. He also leads worship at Covenant Life Church and writes a blog at www.WorshipMatters.com. Bob is the author of Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God, and contributed a chapter to Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World. He and his wife, Julie, have six children and a growing number of grandchildren.