Douglas Bond and a young woman from my church, Kinslea Rae, have been collaborating on songwriting. Doug writes the words, Kinslea writes the music. Since I get to hear Kinslea play almost every week, I thought I'd share these songs with you.



Singing has been a part of the biblically-regulated worship of God from the very beginning. Yet so much of contemporary Christian “worship” is self-focused, or is more conducive to a soloist performance that inhibits the congregation from joining in with full voice in the worship of their Savior. More importantly, these songs are often watered down, repeat the same lines over and over (perhaps leaving some to wonder if the songwriters ran out of anything additional to say), are strangely silent on subjects such as God’s wrath which are so prevalent in Scripture, or are lacking theologically sound or Christ-centered lyrics. Missing are the depths of richness and beauty of the great hymns of the past: hymns that carried the church in times of persecution and reformation, trial and revival. What type of song will actually support the persecuted church in years to come? A song such as “A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing...”? or in comparison the most popular Christian song of 2020, with lyrics that begin like this - “I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough, every single lie that tells me I will never measure up...” ?

Recognizing this dire need, Douglas Bond has taken up his pen and, after prayerfully studying the Scriptures, is crafting many sound, biblically-based hymns.  Yet hymns are meant to be sung. Most recently, Kinslea Rae has begun composing tunes to his lyrics with prayerful consideration of the words and spirit of worship in which they are written. These hymns, Lord willing, will be easy to learn, will draw out the hearts of Christ’s worshipers, and will compel the congregation to sing with full voice.

Lyric videos continue to be uploaded to YouTube to help enable the hymns to be more easily learned for the singing in homes or in the corporate worship of God. The desire of Douglas Bond and Kinslea Rae is for churches to use these New Reformation Hymns for the glory and worship and praise of King Jesus. 

The hymn videos can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7d5qzSuxEvcAn9vrGyTpw8eRGL_PVuM.

Sheet music for these hymns are available for free at bondbooks.net/hymns.