Robert B. Robinson - Christian Songwriter

I started composing music for church choirs in 1972. Yes, I’m getting old. I had been working as part-time music minister a couple of years before that, and was crazy enough to think I could write music for my choir. At that point I’d had one year of music theory in high school and one year in college.

A few years later I finished my music degree in vocal performance and served as full-time music minister until the late 1980’s. During that time I also ran a small church music publishing company for six years. Later, I did graduate studies in music composition and education.

Most of the music I composed was for SATB with piano accompaniment, and sometimes with additional instrumentation, including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. But I also wrote a few a cappella pieces, which I really loved doing.

I have just released my first new a cappella composition on this website (Mighty God of the Universe) and I’m very exited about it. I’ll be releasing more a cappella titles in the coming weeks and months.

And I am offering everything you need for your choir for free. You can download all of the PDF and MP3 files and distribute them however you like. You can print them or use them in their digital form. If you make an audio or video recording of the music you can share those recordings, including online for no charge. I am the sole copyright owner, and I give you permission to do this.

It is such a blessing in these days of technology to be able to read the music from a phone or tablet—avoiding the cost of printing it. And because I am offering the soprano, alto, tenor and bass parts as individual PDF’s, as well as the individual MP3’s, it should make it easier for singers to learn their parts.

Also included for free: the full score, the piano reduction (for rehearsal only), and the full demo MP3.

I hope you will use this music in your worship, and if you do, please send me a note via the Contact form. I’d love to know about it.

© 2025 Robert B. Robinson. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0

This 26-second video short includes an excerpt from my song, "Supernatural Story." 

Part of the lyrics say: "You can't conceive of a 3D Heaven? Instead of 3D, imagine 7." 

Imagine a 7D Heaven? What in the world does that mean? 

Hundreds of times in the Bible the number 7 signifies completion or perfection. So my thinking was that a 7-Dimensional Heaven is a way of describing an absolutely perfect place that we can't begin to comprehend. 

And I used a rainbow in this video because a rainbow is made up of exactly 7 colors. It too, is perfect.

Watch the full-length lyrics video of the song: 

On September 7, 2023 I died. 

I was suddenly on the floor with no heartbeat, no breathing. 

Dead.

I had suffered a heart attack known as a sudden cardiac arrest. I was sitting across from my wife at a restaurant when I got very dizzy. I felt my neck, checking my pulse, thinking I might be in AFIB, expecting my heart to be racing. Instead, I felt nothing. I mumbled to Lynda, “My heart’s not beating,” and passed out.

Several people got up from their meals and rushed over to help. The were gathered around me and Lynda couldn’t even see what they were doing. But obviously, someone gave me CPR—I still don’t know who it was, but I am incredibly grateful.

The paramedics arrived, took me to the ambulance, and worked on me for fifteen minutes. Then we were off to the emergency room. They rushed me in, and five or six people quickly prepared me to go to the Cath Lab while (it seemed like) another ten stood and watched. Once I was in the Cath Lab, the cardiac surgeon evaluated my heart. It was beating, but the rhythm was out of control (Torsades de pointes). 

The cardiologist quickly discovered that I had a 99% blockage in the LAD artery (the infamous “widow maker” blockage) and an 80% blockage in another artery. He installed a stent in the LAD, and the second stent was installed four days later. Before this, I already had stents in two arteries, (from 2010 and 2015), but they were stable.

The next day, the cardiologist told me, “Mr. Robinson, you are a very lucky man. Out of 100 people that this happens to, 93 are either dead or brain dead.” I understood what he meant. If I had been in bed sleeping or on a plane or driving a car when it happened I would have been a goner.

Amazingly, I suffered no permanent damage to my heart. This was a bit shocking, since this is not the norm.

But I don’t believe I was simply “lucky.” I tried to believe that at first, because otherwise I would have to accept that God had stepped in and spared my life for some reason. But for what reason? Was I supposed to carry out some special Godly mission?

I had no idea. So I put that thought out of my mind and just went on with life. But eventually I began to wonder if I was meant to go back to my Christian songwriting roots. Back in the 1970’s and 80’s I had served as part-time and full-time music minister at more than half-a-dozen churches, and composed 13 choir musicals.

But what was the point? I knew I could write some praise and worship music (better music that I had written before), but who would care? Who would actually use it?

My strong feeling was to go ahead with it anyway. And so, I am.

Did God spare my life so I could do this? I still can’t say for sure, but, again—I’m going ahead with it anyway.

I guess that’s faith. Or at least some form of faith.